Mark Hatfield Quotations

The process is designed to stimulate creative thinking and challenge conventional beliefs. In the end, it will allow us to work smarter and better as we secure America's transportation system.

The reality is, in most airports you don't have the luxury of that much space.

No agency can, which is why it is vitally important that we are partnered with industry,

I think I saw our young team definitely improve. They made great strides. The turnovers were young turnovers. It is a shame we came so close and couldn't get over the final hurdle. The mistakes -- they were positive mistakes, aggressive mistakes. It is a learning experience.

Our screeners have very specific standard operating procedures. They are trained for how to react when they discover a weapon, explosive device or hazardous material.

Our screeners go through a rigorous evaluation before they're even hired. Once they're hired, they go through an extraordinary amount of training,

We are pleased that they recognize the dedication and expertise of the screeners, and we agree with their conclusion that significant improvements will depend on improvements in technology, though we will seek incremental gains through training and testing and management practices.

We listen to our traveling public and we're looking at how to make this a little more comfortable.

Employers, in general, could not care less if you've served in the military.

This bill says to us that our government does not believe that Georgians are capable of making the best decision for their family. I don't think this is the message we want to send.

There's an application and a series of steps that an individual can take to seek redress.

It's a process by which the airlines, the carriers, actually are required to go through a series of steps to identify and know and vet the shippers so that there's not any kind of mysterious entity out there,

It's like that across the board. It's very sad, but that's the society we live in.

I can say very flatly that we've cleaned house and gotten caught up on those background checks that had been done improperly,

Yes, I'm of the old guard, liberal Republican.

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

Our problem is not the lack of knowing; it is the lack of doing. Most people know far more than they think they do

I want to caution that we must not confuse patriotism with blind endorsement of bad policies.

For the Christian man to reason that God does not want him involved in politics because there are too many evil men in government is as insensitive as for a Christian doctor to turn his back on an epidemic because there are too many germs there.

As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.

Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security.

The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people.

We stand by as children starve by the millions because we lack the will to end hunger. But we have found the will to develop missiles capable of flying over the polar cap and landing within a few hundred feet of their target. This is not innovation. It is a profound distortion of humanity's purpose on earth.