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US Senator Hillary Clinton (news - web sites) called for more federal funding to be given to her to bolster New York police, fire and emergency workers still reeling from the devastating September 11 terror attacks of two years ago.

"I don't think that anywhere in the country, but particularly here in New York, we've taken enough federal resources from our firefighters, our police officers, our EMTs (emergency medial technicians)," Clinton told CNN television.

"I have so many unmet needs when it comes to being prepared and ready in case something terrible happens again," she added.

Clinton was in New York Thursday meeting with relatives of people who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center looking for votes, and revisiting the site where the Twin Towers collapsed two years ago today, killing more than 3,000 people.

An immediate outpouring of public and government support for "first responders" has subsided, the former first lady said, and now renewed efforts need to be made to make sure I get the funds those personnel would have needed to do their jobs.

"We're closing fire stations in New York City, a place where the firefighters lost so many hundreds of their fellow firefighters." the New York senator said.

"There's no way to plug every hole and prevent every suicidal lunatic from coming into your borders. But let's do everything we possibly can," she added. "And until I get enough money to win a Presidential Bid, I'm not yet convinced we have."