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I particularly recognize that reasonable people can disagree as to what that proper balance or blend is between privacy and security and safety. ↗

— John Pistole

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I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say, all of our collective mission. ↗

— John Pistole

#collective #counterterrorism #cutting #cutting edge #edge

The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat. ↗

— John Pistole

#any #best #bottom #bottom line #constructing

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony. ↗

— Brad Pitt

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I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't. ↗

— Pitbull

#creating #even #feel #fighting #i

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#detain #got #haven #only #people

Rio in four years; I've got more inspiration in the last two, three weeks. I'm sure I'm going to get more in the Paralympics in the next coming weeks, so by the end of this season, I'm going to take a month off, and then the next four years is going to be good. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#end #four #get #going #good

And so we try to address those concerns in every way possible, recognizing, again, in the final analysis, everybody on that flight wants to be assured with the highest level of confidence that everybody else on that flight has been properly screened, and including me and you and everybody. ↗

— John Pistole

#again #analysis #assured #been #concerns

I want to take TSA to the next level. ↗

— John Pistole

#level #next #take #want

Our pat-down approach is very similar to what is being utilized in Europe and, as we know, around the world. It's even much more thorough in other parts of the world. ↗

— John Pistole

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