Airport Security Quotes

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

  David Neeleman

  Confidence, Believe, Airports

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• Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

  Henny Youngman

  Inspirational, Funny, Family

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy.

  Tom Udall

  Sacrifice, Technology, Airports

  "Protecting Privacy at the Airport" by Tom Udall, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2011.

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

  Alton Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.

  Salman Rushdie

  Airports, Terrorist, Terrorist Attacks

  "Satanic view that equates democracies and dictatorships" by Salman Rushdie, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2012.

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

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.182, Crown Archetype

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• If you want something bad enough, you've got to make a bold move. George Washington, took on the British Empire. Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. Ken Titus taped a hotel key to his underwear to score with an airport security guard.

  Christopher Titus

  Moving, Moon, Keys

  "Titus", www.imdb.com. 2000-2002.

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• The events of September 11 would have been impossible if there were no airport security system at all. If average Americans were allowed to carry their personal firearms on board our aircraft ..., the chances that several passengers on each flight would have been armed-and thus able to shoot the hijackers, preventing the Trade Center and Pentagon hits-would have been quite substantial.

  Vin Suprynowicz

  Security Systems, Average, Airports

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• There were precisely two groups of people who desperately wanted airport security to be browbeaten into giving suspicious passengers a pass: terrorists and Democrats.

  Ann Coulter

  Airports, Two, People

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism”, p.327, Crown Forum

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• 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."

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humorous, Food

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• It was either me or Confucius that said the journey of a thousand miles begins with a vicious ass raping at airport security.

  Doug Stanhope

  Journey, Airports, Ass

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• When the day comes, I remember how much I loathe flying. I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Airports, Checks, Humiliation

  "Tom Hodgkinson: Why modern travel fills me with horror". www.independent.co.uk. July 14, 2012.

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• Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport security, he would blame his aura.

  William Faulkner

  Memorable, Airports, Perfection

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• I think the beard helps offset - it's the only hairstyle I can really pull off. But I'm often clean-shaven. I think, you know, for me, it's not that signifier. What's interesting to me though is although the beard isn't a signifier of that to me, other people very often think that it is. And so people in America might react differently. The, you know, border agents might react differently. The guys at airport security might react differently.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, America, Airports

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure the wretchedness of passing through the X-ray scanner. The laptops roll merrily down the belt, while I’m instructed to stand aside and open my bag. To me it seems like a normal enough thing to be carrying, but the typewriter’s declining popularity arouses suspicion and I wind up eliciting the sort of reaction one might expect when traveling with a cannon. It’s a typewriter,’ I say. ‘You use it to write angry letters to airport security.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Airports, Typewriters

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• Six imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.

  Ann Coulter

  Airports, Phoenix, Calling

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.37, Crown Forum

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• I had more material on weather than anyone else, I guess, ... back when I was traveling a lot on the road as a standup comic, between airport security and the weather... I just wanted to be prepared for sitting in the airport.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Humor, Airports

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• I flew this past weekend. I went through airport security and said to the guy, 'Is everything okay?' He said, 'You might want to have that mole on your ass checked out.' That seems a little personal to me.

  Jay Leno

  Weekend, Past, Airports

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• 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?

  Charles Krauthammer

  Jobs, Thinking, Airports

  "Don't touch my junk" by Charles Krauthammer, www.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2010.

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• Shamu and I have arrived safely in Costa Rica. He was stopped by airport security because he carries enough artillery in his pants pockets to construct a sawed-off shotgun. Evidently, he though we were headed to Iraq.

  Chelsea Handler

  Airports, Iraq, Pockets

  Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• In June 2002, airport security searched Al Gore. There's a lot not to like about Gore, but he's not a terrorist. Gore said he was glad he was searched. Why? To spare a terrorist the trouble? This is a serious national issue; why must liberals lie? Searching Al Gore is purely a religious act. It is the purposeless fetishistic performance of ritual in accordance with the civic religion of liberalism.

  Ann Coulter

  Religious, Lying, Airports

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• The federal government said today they've begun training sessions for airport security workers to provide what they call more customer satisfaction to the travels, they want to make it easier for us. They're instructing security guards to glance at your luggage tags so that they can call you by your first name. Isn't that creepy? The guy touching your wife, calling her by her first name.

  Jay Leno

  Names, Airports, Government

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• We boarded the plane after boxing our stakes and knives and taking them to a FedEx carrier, airport security being so strict nowadays. In the section marked 'contents', Bones filled out 'Tofu'. God, but he had a sick sense of humor sometimes.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Airports, Filled Out, Knives

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.184, Hachette UK

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• Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system, or begging your family to stop opening those virus-carrying 'greeting cards' attached to emails, all computer owners are highly leveraged and highly vulnerable technology investors.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Fall, Technology, Airports

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• There’s a piece of lead where my heart should beat Doctor said too dangerous to take out You’d better just leave it be Body grew back around it, a miracle, praise be Now, if only I could get through airport security “bullet

  Gayle Forman

  Heart, Airports, Doctors

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.71, Penguin

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