Are there other emerging technologies that NIST should be working on with industry to develop interoperable standards?

There was a malfunction on reentry on one of the Soyuz. Is that problem corrected, in your opinion?

A lot of our technological dominance today is a result of investments in research and technology.

Remember that it has fueled the creation of the laser, the Internet, and GPS.

Only by sustaining those investments are we going to be able to assure future generations of Americans a society and a place in the world worthy of the history of this great nation.

By sustaining our investments in fundamental research, we can ensure that America remains at the forefront of scientific capability.

If we are cutting out the R&D, you are starting to eat your seed corn so that you don't have a crop to plant for next year.

Well, we are just delighted that you are here.

I am one that always believed that, you know, adversity, sometimes we hear that adversity builds character but I am more that adversity exposes character.

the President's budget cuts $200 million from the 2010 levels across the Federal Government in STEM education.

While, first of all, someone was not paying attention to the performance of the engineer in this case, and that is a shortcoming of our safety program, that needs to be corrected.

I think that is the frustration that is beginning to set in with our Colombian allies.

We are in the post-Cold War era, so we need to think of Latin America in a different way...

Let's get this thing done because it is good for America and it is good for Colombia and Panama.

But to say we are pressing the United Nations and that is energetic action, the Security Council, is to basically say the United States--and to say that is what we are going to limit ourselves to, what we are basically saying is the United…

The President of the United States has specifically said Qaddafi must go, but has done nothing since saying that.

the United States, quite frankly, looks weak in this endeavor, it looks unwilling or maybe even unable to act in this capacity.

Well, when is that resolution going to happen? After the bloodbath, in the middle of the bloodbath?