You can call it the watch list, you can call it the select list, you can call it the no-fly list. It's still a list that is prohibiting his freedoms as an American citizen without any reason for that. He is not a fugitive, he is not a terrorist. And yet, he's on a list that he doesn't belong. That shouldn't happen in America. This is not the way we live our lives.
Quotes about no-fly (16 Quotes)
Celebrity or unknown, our job is to act on information that others have given us, ... And in this instance, there was some relationship between the name and the terrorists' activity with this individual's name being on that no-fly list, and appropriate action was taken.
We trust that when they suggest that someone be placed on the 'no-fly' or 'selectee' list, that they do so for very good reasons.
We are patrolling the no-fly zone to protect the people of Iraq. And in order to do that, we need to protect our planes.
There's a lot of night no-fly zones over there. You have to be an experienced pilot. ... They're warning him about what can happen over there.
There have been some down days (during which patrols were not conducted) because of weather and other reasons, but we are still patrolling the no-fly zones, particularly in the south, aggressively.
It's a way of demonstrating to the world that you can't forget about Iraq, ... That Iraq will not allow itself to be forgotten, that Iraq will never allow the sanctions and the no-fly zones and all these other restrictions to simply exist. They will constantly fight against them.
This was a sacred day a very delicate kind of thing. There was that little period where there was a no-fly zone on this subject matter, with a few exceptions. Probably now, enough time has passed and we're getting new perspective on this.
The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.
The president has made it clear we will enforce the no-fly zones vigorously. The Iraqi violations are at their own peril.
This is one of the things that we have seen over time, that in the no-fly zones there will be surface-to-air missiles moved in, moved around and moved out,
I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone.
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.
As the (U.S.) president said yesterday, we will continue to enforce the no-fly zones. Nothing has changed.
We cannot ask British pilots to patrol the no-fly zones and not act when we see Saddam Hussein preparing to shoot them down. That is why we took the action yesterday.
We take every effort to avoid civilian casualties, but (Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein has to take a lot of the blame as long as he continues to violate the no-fly zones and attack our aircraft,