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The bottom line is, if somebody doesn't go through proper security screening, they're not going to go on the flight.

We save limited resources in terms of who we are physically screening. The approach will allow us to pay more attention to those potential terrorists.

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.

With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy.

Increased and better screening for explosives is necessary - and Congress should fund it and TSA should implement it as quickly as possible - however that screening doesn't reduce the risk posed by a trained terrorist with an unconventional weapon.

People have to be confident about their sites. We're confident, number one, because under my administration we're managing our airports better than we've ever done before.

We put people of concern on the watch list or the no-fly list, so we have a number of layers of security beyond the airport checkpoint. We gather as much information about a passenger as the law allows without profiling.

Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.

We continually evaluate the world situation, and we not infrequently make changes to aviation security. We either step it up or we feel sometimes we're in a position to dial it back, and so this is something that happens periodically, and people should not overreact to it or over-speculate about what's going on.

We want to be sensitive to people's concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been properly screened.