We are broke. And when I listen to some of the witnesses, if it was just a question of us buying another printing press, I think we could fund that right away and get more paper from.

the answer is to dramatically increase research and development so that solar panels become cheaper than fossil fuels sooner rather than later.

I think the failure of this institution is that we are not prepared to do what is necessary for them.

I think we are playing with fire in this country in terms of losing our position.

If this country crumbles, and he is a Brit so he sees it from outside, it will crumble from within.

There is something wrong here. And I know a lot of politicians don't want to say anything about it. But there is something wrong.

We are closing factories faster than opening them. They are opening them and we are closing them.

This is the country that has 30 Catholic priests in jail and has plundered Tibet and is spying on us.

I think it is important to recognize that there is the question of how much climate change we think we are prepared to accept.

The charge that that Committee accepted was to identify actions which federal policymakers could take to enhance the science and technology enterprise.

I would hope that we could do much more than we are currently doing.

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.

Trenton makes and the world takes. And Trenton does not make anything anymore.

Secondly, how many students do we have majoring in math and science and physics and chemistry and biology compared to, say, the Chinese and also India?

Our weakness is with a great bulk of the population who are not attaining a minimal level of understanding.

We are in decline competitively.

Maybe, Mr. Chairman, we ought to ask the new Secretary of Education to come before the Committee.

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 ourselves for unknown purposes.