75 Percentage of U.S. adults who contributed money, clothing or time to World Trade Center disaster relief.

1.64 million Number of jobs the September 11 attacks will cost the U.S. by the end of 2002.

116,000 American flags sold by Wal-Mart on September 11.

6,400 Flags sold by Wal-Mart on that date in 2000.

$40 billion Value of the emergency antiterrorism package approved by the U.S. Congress on September 14.

$11.1 billion Amount of federal aid approved after Hurricane Andrew struck in 1992, until now the most costly disaster in U.S. history.

2,527 People killed in international terrorist acts from 1990 to 1999.

5,515 Initial estimate of people reported missing or dead in New York City and Washington, D.C., after the September 11 attacks.

12,500 Estimated number of murders in U.S. in 2000.

1918 The last time Major League Baseball play was suspended for more than three days, during World War I.

1929 The last time the New York Stock Exchange was shut down for more than three days, after the Crash.

0 Number of times in the past that Broadway theaters have voluntarily gone dark.

0 Number of times the FAA has shut down all airports in the U.S.

"This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing."
GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President

"Many of the steps we have now been forced to take will become permanent in American life. They represent an understanding of the world as it is, and dangers we must guard against perhaps for decades to come."
DICK CHENEY, U.S. Vice President

"To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists."
ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN ASHCROFT, defending his antiterror measures before the Senate Judiciary Committee

"We must therefore be as constant in our vigilance of the Constitution as we are in our battle against terrorism."
ROBERT BYRD, West Virginia Senator, scolding colleagues for not debating issues after 9/11

"They were overjoyed when the first plane hit the building, so I said to them, ‘Be patient.'"

OSAMA BIN LADEN, speaking on tape of the reaction of al-Qaeda members to the attacks on the U.S.

"No, we are not with you, and we are not terrorists."
AYATULLAH ALI KHAMENEI, Iran's supreme religious leader, on his country's refusal to support the U.S.

"When you go to work, you be the tower. You stand tall."
CALVIN BUTTS, minister, speaking to workers in New York's financial district