If this is true, somebody should be looking into it.

We’ve had some of this money spent to air condition garbage trucks. We’ve had some of the money spent for armor for dogs. This money is being distributed as if it’s general revenue sharing.

We must not allow the people who were struck down to simply become statistics. The greatest service we can pay those who made the ultimate sacrifice, and those who survived the blaze, is to do...

a moderate who supports a woman’s right to choose.

It’s not a priority for the government right now.

It’s very disappointing, … All we’re trying to do is make the public safer.

I think the 10 of us have credibility in this area, … As we looked at the reasons that other commissions have been unsuccessful, one of the reasons is that there was no follow-through. This...

The question will be whether the guy at the top [in charge of intelligence] has any real budget authority. If he doesn’t, it’s not real. I think the good part of the week was the...

That was a sign that things aren’t right yet.

It’s very disappointing. All we’re trying to do is make the public safer.

Whether it’s a chemical attack or a nuclear attack or an earthquake in San Francisco, it’s largely the same response. And this is proof that we still haven’t got it right.

At some point, somebody has to say this is true or this is not true, … He’s supposed to have a list of names of terrorists in his possession. He either does or he doesn’t....

It scares me a bit that we dismantled the CIA to the point that it now takes five years to rebuild it.

Every expert with whom we spoke told us an attack of even greater magnitude is now possible and even probable. We do not have the luxury of time.

The most striking thing to us is that the size of the problem still totally dwarfs the policy response. We have no greater fear than a terrorist who is inside the United States with a...

If these two bills are passed on radio spectrum and allocation of funds, the grades will quickly switch to a B or an A.

I think this deal is going to be killed. The question is how much damage is this going to do to us before it’s killed.

This is not a terrorist incident, but it brings into play all of the same issues and shortcomings, … What makes you mad is that it’s the same things we saw on 9/11. Whoever is...

If Congress does not act, people will die — I cannot put it more simply than that.

It was obvious nobody knew who was in charge. There was no unified command structure … the mayor is saying one thing, the governor says another. The president is in the state, and the governor...

Unfortunately, races seem to get more negative every year. I think the public is sick of it. People respond to positive campaigns.

God help us if we have another attack.

Katrina pointed out serious flaws in our emergency preparedness and response. And what is frustrating to us is that [these are] many of the same problems we saw in 9/11 and the response to that...

Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity.

What we’re concerned about now is that these recommendations more than four years after 9/11 are still not being done. People are not paying attention to them.

We still do not have a maximum effort against the most urgent threat. The most striking thing to us is that the size of the problem still totally dwarfs the policy response.

We believe that the terrorists will strike again. If they do, and these reforms that might have prevented such an attack have not been implemented, what will our excuses be?

We’re frustrated at the lack of urgency. We shouldn’t need another wake-up call. We believe that the terrorists will strike again.

Hurricane Katrina pointed out continuing serious flaws in our emergency preparedness and response. And this was frustrating to us.

They’re talking about using more money for random checks. Terrorists coming through the airport may still not be spotted.

Had the studies of dangers to infrastructure been done, it’s hard to believe that New Orleans wouldn’t have been at the top.

The terrorists are smart because they will go where the security is the weakest. We have no greater fear then a terrorist who is inside the United States with a nuclear weapon … [so] why...

While the terrorists are learning and adopting, our government is still moving at a crawl. Many obvious steps that the American people assume have been completed have not been. Our leadership is distracted.

There’s no question that we are not as safe as we need to be. Our leadership has been distracted in this country. Some of the failures are shocking.

We are safer, but we are not yet safe. That’s simply not acceptable.

It is a scandal in our minds that four years after 9/11, we have not yet set aside radio spectrum to insure that police, firefighters and emergency medical technicians can communicate reliably during any kind...

It shouldn’t have happened, it never should have happened. There is no question that two of the 9/11 hijackers came from there and money was laundered through there.

I think there’s a real question in my mind and I think of several other commissioners as to whether the president’s getting decent information, as to whether the president’s getting the kind of thing the...

While the terrorists are learning and adapting, our government is still moving at a crawl. Four years after 9/11, we are not as safe as we could be, and that’s simply not acceptable.

The United States government was simply not active enough in combating the terrorist threat before 9/11.

The fact that Congress has chosen not to do something about this is a national scandal that has cost lives,

The first people who reached the World Trade Center did not know who was in charge. Every state and locality has got to have one agency in charge.

Some of the failures are shocking. Four years after 9/11, it is a scandal that police and firefighters in large cities still can’t talk to each other when they are hit with a major crisis.

People ought to stay out of our business.

Federal grants to first responders should be distributed on risk and vulnerability.

Generally, the grades range all the way from A to F.

We are safer but we are not yet safe. Four years after 9/11, we are not as safe as we could be. And that is unacceptable. While the terrorists are learning and adapting, our government...

There are many things that people think have been done that simply haven’t been done. Our leadership has been distracted in this country. Some of the failures are shocking.

The most painful death in all the world is the death of a child. When a child dies, when one child dies-not the 11 per 1,000 we talk about statistically, but the one that a...

It is a scandal in our minds.