Daniel Libeskind

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.