Tsa Quotes

• Everything TSA does is reactionary - first they ban the box cutters, then of course you have to take your shoes off, then you have to take the liquids out, now we have to be patted down in our private areas because of the diaper bomber.

  John Mica

  Shoes, Diapers, Firsts

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• I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say, all of our collective mission.

  John S. Pistole

  Cutting, Technology, Agency

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• It would be unwise to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department not to evolve our technology to match the changing threat environment that we inhabit.

  Janet Napolitano

  Technology, Would Be, Environment

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• I want to take TSA to the next level.

  John S. Pistole

  Next Level, Levels, Want

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• 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.

  John Mica

  Talking, People, Done

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• Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.

  John Mica

  Country, Airports, Israel

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• 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.

  John Mica

  Friday, Two, Eight

  "TSA bogged down in bureaucracy" by John Mica, www.politico.com. June 28, 2010.

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• They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.270

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• 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.

  John Mica

  Country, Believe, Airports

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• I'm a little disappointed I didn't get fiddled with by a TSA agent at the airport. I feel unwanted. Maybe next time.

  William Regal

  Airports, Wwe, Agents

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• I love trains. It's the only way to travel anymore where it doesn't involve a TSA agent slowly tracing the curve of my inner thigh.

  Bill Maher

  Curves, Agents, Way

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• What we're going to do is try to get TSA out of the human resources and personnel business and into the security business to connect the dots.

  John Mica

  Trying, Dots, Resources

  "TSA gives private security screeners green light in Orlando". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. June 12, 2012.

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• We're not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this.

  John Mica

  Average, Risk, Trying

  "TSA gives private security screeners green light in Orlando". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. June 12, 2012.

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• 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.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Airports, Body, Cop

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

  Mike Rogers

  Want, Bunch, Folks

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• The TSA is under fire for major security lapses. The TSA has let through pipe bombs, knives, and the last three Nicolas Cage movies.

  Conan O'Brien

  Fire, Knives, Three

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• Why is it that we all - myself included - believe these stories? Why are we so quick to assume that the TSA is a bunch of jack-booted thugs, officious and arbitrary and drunk with power? It's because everything seems so arbitrary, because there's no accountability or transparency in the DHS.

  Bruce Schneier

  Believe, Thug, Drunk

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• While Admiral Neffenger is an impressive man, it is naive and dangerous to pretend installing one director can heal what ails TSA, the Department of Homeland Security needs to admit that it has a crisis of bureaucratic complacency - lacking an overarching vision and coherent measures of success and failure.

  Benjamin E. Sasse

  Success, Men, Vision

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• 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.

  James Young

  Deregulation, Planes, Airline

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I just heard about a woman in Germany who just gave birth to a baby boy named "Jihad." Or as the TSA put it, "Hope you like Amtrak!

  Jimmy Fallon

  Baby, Boys, Germany

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• Bridget adds, "Did Anyone bring a weapon?" "Confiscated," Zach admits for both of us. Vesper holds up her metal fingernail file. "They didn't take this." We're dealing with the forces of evil," I point out. "Not the TSA.

  Cynthia Leitich Smith

  Evil, Add, Weapons

  Cynthia Leitich Smith (2012). “Diabolical”, p.145, Candlewick Press

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• The TSA must think we're mushrooms. You know, the way they are trying to keep us in the dark, and the way they keep feeding us a fertilizing agent that comes from the south end of a north-bound cow.

  Douglas Wilson

  Dark, Thinking, Mushrooms

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• I did learn something interesting [while at the Atlanta airport]. You have to be a member of the TSA in order to legally perform a cavity search. My apologies to the staff of Cinnabon, but you guys should really keep that extra frosting where the customers can find it.

  Stephen Colbert

  Apology, Airports, Atlanta

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• Every time I travel, government TSA officials seem to recognize that I'm a Muslim and 'randomly' pull me aside for 'special treatment'. My sincere hope and prayer is that, on the Day of Judgment, my Lord's angels also recognize me as a Muslim and pull me aside for special treatment

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

  Prayer, Islamic, Angel

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• The TSA tears through your bags at the airport and the NSA watches what books you buy and what you say over the telephone and online. It doesn't feel like anything is private anymore.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, Airports, Nsa

  "The Rumpus Interview With Sandra Cisneros". Interview with Olivia, therumpus.net. January 13, 2016.

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