"New York City has already been targeted by terrorists six times since 1993. Yet inexplicably, today New York state ranks 49th among the 50 states in per capita homeland security funding... This is pork-barrel politics at its worse. It's the kind of shortsighted 'me-first' nonsense that gives Washington a bad name... It also, unfortunately, has the effect of aiding and abetting those who hate us and plot against us."
-- Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of the City of New York, to the 911 Commission last week, as quoted in the New York Post.