"Every week I fly between my home in Massachusetts and my office in the District of Columbia, and I am well aware that our airports face unique and challenging times."
"It won't happen, even if it might be helpful."
"To me, when you are talking about cameras, that is not just within the terminal but should be outside around the perimeter."
"I must say that JFK is one of the best, most secure airports."
"But the real issue I had, too, the specific one, drilling down, is even when you have airports willing to take that cost and you have existing personnel, why are there still roadblocks allowing more--..."
"It is a very tough balance to get people through and to keep us secure."
"I want to thank you for taking the time to be here, and we will continue in this committee to try to be helpful on both fronts, to try and deal with expediting people in and out, but also making peopl..."
"If they had more viable first responder coordination back and forth, there is not one other factor that they could identify that would have saved more lives in that process of reacting to that."
"If it is not up to speed here, my conclusion would be that it is not up to speed anywhere."
"Should it be a concern? Should it be something we look at in Congress to make sure we are funding?"
"I think one strategy is to maximize our other abilities to try and thwart terrorist acts."
"I think all of your agencies have done an extraordinary job in thwarting so many potential terrorist threats."