Department Quote by Janet Napolitano

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…

— John Mica

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…

— John Mica

Increased and better screening for explosives is necessary - and Congress should fund it and TSA should implement it as quickly as possible -…

— Dave Reichert

This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or…

— John Sununu

The TSA holds its screener work force to the highest standards of security and professionalism, .. and will continue to focus on these principles…

— Robert Johnson

We have got to protect privacy rights. We have got to protect our God-given, constitutionally protected civil liberties, and we are not doing that…

— Paul Broun

Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security…

— John Mica

We still have a problem here in this country of access to airports and airplanes [for terrorists].

— Adam Schiff

We accept that warrantless wiretapping may be necessary in extreme circumstances. We accept the added delays and inconvenience of increased airport security. And we…

— Mike Johnson

Some comments called for the inclusion of an anti-skimming device that would block unauthorized connections with the readable chip to gain access to the…

— Ray Everett-Church

The federal government... knows how to put a missile in someone's room half way around the world with technology. Why don't we use some…

— Michael Nutter

We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very…

— Condoleezza Rice