Do any of you see this as leadership failures in the Navy?

Until that time, each agency comes in to gather whatever it can for its own area.

Chinese people are wonderful people. I mean, they want freedom. They are thirsting for freedom.

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

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

The temperature, put it this way, it lags the greenhouse gas.

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.

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 previous science advisor would never say very, very much.

We are not doing enough with our entire population, so that is why I would say we are in decline.

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, what kind of capability do we have.