Quotes by Nico Melendez

“It is a continual progression. We need to stay one step ahead.”

“We dont screen for drugs.”

“If Thanksgiving was any indication -- its much busier than Christmas, and we had no real problems -- things will be fine.”

“As far as I can tell, things are status quo. Theres nothing out of the ordinary.”

“Were going to implement an element of random secondary inspections at the checkpoint. But because its random, were not going to offer any details.”

“Honolulu has rather small numbers when you consider millions of passengers leave or come into Honolulu every year. One is certainly too many, but if were going to have a number, Id rather have it be a low number than something thats monumental.”

“Why someone would leave $4,000 in their checked luggage is beyond me. Why dont they just take the $4,000 and leave it on the seat at Aloha Stadium during a football game and let somebody pick it up? Because thats essentially what they did.”

“We have good men and women who are dedicated to the security of aviation and to the security of the transportation system, and I think we need to recognize that we have more good people working for us than we do bad.”

“Theyre working weird shifts, theyre working long hours and working under extreme conditions and working under conditions, where they have to deal with passengers that sometimes are not too friendly.”

“But if you leave and you go somewhere else and then you call a week, two weeks, three weeks later, it certainly makes it more difficult to research that.”