Political Quotes

“I stand to give you a bulletin from the City of New York, from my home community of Queens, New York. As we speak, Concourse A, Terminal 8 at JFK Airport has just been closed. It has been closed because the screeners at American Airlines when a magnetometer broke down decided to just wave the people through. They waved enough people through, until the FAA found out about it. The FAA, by the way, for those who have not noticed, is a Federal agency that hires Federal employees. The screeners are not. The FAA closed down the whole terminal. Presently, five planeloads of people thinking they were going to their destinations across America are being off-loaded off of all those planes because they are now considered unsanitized and have to go through the screening process that some of them should have gone through to begin with. This points out exactly the problem that we have: poorly trained, inconsistently trained, nonpublic, non-Federal employees, doing screening by any rules they deem necessary, without any supervision. Think of what you would do if you passed what you are looking to pass.”