John Layfield Quotes

I flew on Air Force Two for eight years, and now I have to take off my shoes to get on an aeroplane.

The bottom line is, if somebody doesn't go through proper security screening, they're not going to go on the flight.

I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers.

I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.

I know every time I fly, I get checked twice: they stop me at security, and then, they get me again at the gate. And last time, it was so bad, they actually made me go through the machine with the luggage.

Now we are using the body scanner to scan the pilots. They became the dangerous people of this country?

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly important, the measures taken seem, simultaneously, absurd.

We want to be sensitive to people's concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been properly screened.

I'm not sure if I could bear to go on an aeroplane again. It's not my concern for the welfare of the planet. It's not even the long check-in times and queuing. No, it's the humiliation of the security process that has finally done it for me.

Historically, Heathrow has been something of a joke, outweighed by its excellent connections. We have to aspire to having an airport at Heathrow with two runways which is a world-class airport. It's a big challenge.

I take four planes a week, honestly. You know, I am for intelligence screening.

Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.

The first time I flew after September 11, I honestly was a little paranoid. As I was going to the metal detector, I was looking at my duffel bag, and I'm like, 'Do I have anything that's like a weapon?' I was really paranoid they were gonna find something sharp, and I was gonna get in trouble.

I literally live on American Airlines' 737 commercial airplane.

Look at airport security now. What started out as definite racial profiling is now where the computer picks a name. That's why you get a seven-month-old getting a pat down. [Imitates a security officer.] "Check the diapers. They're full."

It happened again this week. Hundreds of people had to be evacuated from O'Hare Airport in Chicago. Seems every time somebody went through with a weapon, the metal detectors accidentally went off.

It may be annoying, but the rash of hijackings by Connecticut WASP girls surely explains the time-consuming - but still somehow completely useless - examination of my personal effects. We all have to make sacrifices for airline safety.

Why do we go through all the nonsense with security at our airport? It's not because the Catholic Church is falling apart.

The TSA's airport body scanners have been shown to be so ineffective, the Homeland Security chairman suggested using traditional metal detectors. While LaGuardia will continue to just have a scarecrow dressed as a cop.

If the security personnel do their job properly, they just might cause you to miss your plane, thereby possibly saving your life.

I hate flying, taking my clothes off, and going through the whole security.

Well, you know, I think the American people are sacrificing now. I think they're waiting in airport lines longer than they've ever had before.

The travel is a lot uglier than it once was with TSA and the deregulation of the airline services. These planes are getting smaller for my 6" 2' frame.

I always thought security was a joke at New York airports, and in U.S. airports to begin with. You can go through any European or Middle Eastern airport and things are a lot tougher.