Johnny Vegas Quotes

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.

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.

Oh my God, Kennedy Airport - what a mess - all over you with those dopey security questions. 'Did you receive any gifts from any unknown persons?' Buddy, the last thing I got from an unknown person was in the 80's.

I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?

Bureaucratic nonsense at airports drives me crazy.

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

After 9/11, new security measures not only added longer lines and earlier check-ins, but took away our privilege of carrying knitting needles or our favorite moisturizer on board with us. Although we want to be safe when we fly, in some ways it all just adds to the misery of our experience.

I'm confident that the terrorists are aware that from the curb to the cockpit we've got additional security measures that didn't exist a couple of years ago.

The episode of the 'shoe bomber,' Richard Reid, has suddenly meant more feet being bared at airports than at the average Hindu temple. My solution has been to replace my customary lace-up Oxfords with a pair of slip-on loafers when I fly. Generals are always fighting the last war, and security screeners are the same.

I think arriving at or departing from any airport in America is just horrendous these days.

I've got a lot of folks who want to get rid of TSA, a bunch of them.

Why we cannot build a system like El Al to be proactive. Why do we have only to react? The shoe bomber - reaction? Take off your shoes. The Nigerian - the body scanner is a result of the Nigerian guy.

When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps.

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

I am starting to hate airports and the whole business of getting onto the plane. It all takes so long I want to scream.

I don't like waiting in airports for my bags. Even worse, I don't like waiting in airports when my bags are lost.

Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.

We must respect the referee every time.

If you can't respect me, you have to respect the law.

The Nondiscriminatory Transportation Screening Act provides a commonsense approach for the TSA to update its policies on permissible verifying documents.

I'm only a player; I only do what my coach says.

Spending time in airports and planes is probably my least favourite part of being a tennis player.

I remember after 9/11, I started - I was working quite a bit in Vancouver. And then I realized I would go to catch my flight, and it would take me like 20 minutes to get cleared to fly, like, every time. I'm like, what is going on?

Flying is always an unpleasant experience. You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.

Granted, this system is insane, but we must not let sanity stand in the way of airport security.