Paul Broun Quotes

When the TSA was established, it was never envisioned that it would become a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy which was soon to grow to 67,000 employees. As TSA has grown larger, more impersonal, and administratively top-heavy, I believe it is important that airports across the country consider utilizing the opt-out provision provided by law.

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.

There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the individual. Instead, they've hired people to stand around and observe, which is a bastardization of what should be done.

Our pat-down approach is very similar to what is being utilized in Europe and, as we know, around the world. It's even much more thorough in other parts of the world.

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.

And so we try to address those concerns in every way possible, recognizing, again, in the final analysis, everybody on that flight wants to be assured with the highest level of confidence that everybody else on that flight has been properly screened, and including me and you and everybody.

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

Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years.

I don't think our government really has much of a policy about air travel. I would compare the policies of United Arab Emirates, which has done a terrific job recognizing the value of transportation, of travel.

It is in the national interest to have the Flying Kangaroo. It's in the interests of our tourism industry. It's in the interests of jobs here in Australia.

If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.

I don't want to be one of those comics who says, 'Hey, what's wrong with air travel?' and stuff like that.

I literally live on American Airlines' 737 commercial airplane.

Local airports serve an important role as economic and public safety assets for communities across the state.

I flew on a plane the week after 9/11.

Nothing will ever have the impact that 9/11 had on Boeing and on the world. It just changed things overnight.

Geraldo has returned to the states. See? I told you airline security was a joke.

Don't touch my junk, you airport security goon - my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think I'm a Nigerian nut job preparing for my 72-virgin orgy by blowing my johnson to kingdom come?

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.

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