John S. Pistole Quotes

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.

We save limited resources in terms of who we are physically screening. The approach will allow us to pay more attention to those potential terrorists.

We put people of concern on the watch list or the no-fly list, so we have a number of layers of security beyond the airport checkpoint. We gather as much information about a passenger as the law allows without profiling.

The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.

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

Pilots are not the threat.