Adam Schiff actually said...

"What, what--sorry, it is the Stanford in me coming out. But I was reading your written testimony, and plainly if you look at the map here you can see that the land is far more than 30 percent."

"if there is a good case to be made for why this advances those goals it really will need to be made very forcefully."

"You have a very tough job. And in many respects I think the job your predecessors had was easier because we had the vision, we did not have the resources, but we were content to suspend belief."

"Given the predictable demise of QuikSCAT and ongoing discussions with NASA and the Japanese Space Agency, I am collaborating on a new mission."