NASA needs to be at the table when these decisions are being made, and when, frankly, when the money is being passed out.
Let us not repeat the Cold War and have some sort of a race to someplace we have already been.
If we had given science all the money we gave AIG, can you imagine how they would be doing?
Aeronautics is really important for the nation, and important for jobs and everything else.
You cannot do it at one-quarter of the budget, which is basically where the budget for aeronautics went from back in the early part of 2000 ...
I think what President Kennedy did on saying we were going to put a man on the moon was very, very positive.
If you put together a group of people whose judgment was strong and that you trusted, what they would be looking at is what kind of demand, ...
We are not doing enough with our entire population, so that is why I would say we are in decline.
I urge you to really be bold and speak out and even be controversial in the sense because when people get within the Administration, the pre...
But going back to the moon could be a goal that we could cooperate with other countries rather than turning NASA upside down trying to do it...
Maybe, Mr. Chairman, we ought to ask the new Secretary of Education to come before the Committee.
We are in decline competitively.
Our weakness is with a great bulk of the population who are not attaining a minimal level of understanding.
Secondly, how many students do we have majoring in math and science and physics and chemistry and biology compared to, say, the Chinese and ...
Trenton makes and the world takes. And Trenton does not make anything anymore.
I really think we are having a tough time. One of the reasons, I think, is that young people are not as interested as they used to be.
I would hope that we could do much more than we are currently doing.
The charge that that Committee accepted was to identify actions which federal policymakers could take to enhance the science and technology ...
