This is more important than any single person. This is about our democracy at this point.
Mark Kelly
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Mark Edward Kelly is an American politician, engineer, and former astronaut currently serving as the junior United States senator from Arizona. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected to the Senate in a special election held in November 2020 and officially took office on December 2, 2020. Kelly has focused on various issues during his tenure, including veterans' affairs, healthcare, and gun control, reflecting his commitment to public service and safety.
This is about our democracy at this point, and those admirals and generals, they need to speak truth to power.
We should be able to wrap this up this week, if they will sit down and have a negotiation with us.
They had a very hard time explaining to us ... the legal rationale for doing this and the constitutionality of doing it.
The president has spent one hour negotiating this issue with leadership in Congress.
Regime change hasn't ever really worked out well for us as a nation where we have supported that.
Well, I hope not. Regime change hasn't ever really worked out well for us as a nation where we have supported that, whether it was in Vietnam, Cuba, Iraq, Afghanistan.
We currently do not have representation in the U.S. House of Representatives, and that is wrong.
I immediately thought back to the day in 2011 when I got that phone call. And I know Erika, his wife, got a similar call.
Putin continues to execute an illegal war, where he is intentionally killing women, children, old people.
I don't have an appetite to lift them. Putin continues to execute an illegal war, where he is intentionally killing women, children, old people.
This is not a show of strength to allow him to fly into the United States, to land here to negotiate with our president.
Often projects and programs and agencies have to undergo some change. I think this is a time with some change right now, but NASA is a resilient and innovative agency.
you go from zero to 17,500 miles per hour in about 8 minutes and then dock with this incredible space station on orbit. It is an experience like none other.
We always want to retain the best people. That's critical to any program across government, but also in the private sector.
What would've happened if 2,000+ senior NASA leaders were pushed out before the moon landing? We would've lost the space race to the Soviets. And now we risk losing the next space race to China.
The president can act militarily when there’s a clear and imminent threat to U.S. citizens.
He took some actions that escalated an issue — a problem, but it was under control. And now the problem is bigger because of the actions he took.





