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.