Daniel Libeskind

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. ”

Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is. ”

I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains. ”

We all came to see that site. We all walked around it. It is already sacred. ”

And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans. ”

The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as just one of the many balls in play. ”

When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily. ”

We will work with everybody for the good of New York. ”

It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment. ”