I think I understand your reasons for saying that as of now, we shouldn't plan on going to Mars in the way that has been described.

if we intend to have a viable human space exploration program in this country, we are going to need to step up to the plate and provide funds necessary to make it work

Only the President can articulate as we move from here, severely underfunded NASA that is way behind the timeline and doesn't have another rocket ready as a follow-on to the Space Shuttle.

the funding profile for the exploration program has been inadequate, and it would be virtually impossible to sustain under the flat line out-year funding profile

The President is going to have to set priorities of how do we not only keep some of them in work and able to get to the vision that I hope the President will articulate.

If we are going to have a program, it is going to have to be the President who is going to have to put the juice to the program.

You can say it until you are blue in the face. I can say it. Administrator Bolden can say it, but the American people are going to listen only to the President.

If you're an American, and you like what you're hearing from this guy, if you like celebrating a man's death, go over there with these people.

Yes, look, I mean, there are a lot of people out there, there's a lot of people in this country that feel a lot of things.

I think these people are utterly without class. And I think it's very important that Americans know the quality of people that are out there demonstrating.

I'll tell you, the American people are not classless. They're the working stiffs who keep money in your pocket.

People want to protest, that's the idea. Celebrating a man's death, a man who is a great patriot, is wrong, wrong, wrong. You ought to chastise your people.

I won't celebrate anybody's death.

He came out with this, pretty much the entire thing. No one should be surprised that he's moving aggressively on health care at all.

The president had a chance tonight to take the government-run health care off the table. Unfortunately, he didn't do it.

The truth of the matter is, they have got people in this country that don't believe that Obama was born in the United States.

In retrospect, you should have anticipated -- again, this is a country that people believe that -- these people believe Obama wasn't born in the United States. They believe the Earth is 5,000 years old.

I'm not sure, but I think it came out of the Department of Education and I think they were talking about in terms of it, as I understand it, it was like civic -- personal responsibility, being studious or something like that.