Security Checkpoints Quotes

The easiest way to get into northern Iraq is through Turkey.

On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.

I'm a big hit with guards at security. They're the center of my fan base, the airport security guards.

I think since the systematic emergence of terrorism and the assassination attempts, everything has tightened. My hope is that it loosens back up once I leave.

I look suspicious if I dress in sort of benign clothes, going to the airport.

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.

Travel from what is called Pakistan to Afghanistan has been made increasingly difficult and people are often labelled terrorists, even those who might be just visiting families.

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

I grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me feel like we're about three per cent better than ants. Especially U.S. airports. They're zoos. All civility is gone.

TSA is such low-hanging fruit. I mean, anybody can bash the TSA.

You can go and visit those places. Nothing there, nothing at all. There are Iraqi checkpoints. Everything is okay.

I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.

God looks at the Middle East, looks at Palestine. When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa.

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.

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

Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.

They can argue whatever they want. The problem is, when you interview every passenger, during the interviews you are looking for - you profile - you do profiling, to find the suspicious ones and put them out from the rest of the passengers.