"Listening to the Chairman's description of the panel makes all of us feel like underachievers here."
"We've got to recapture that imagination again. We've got to--as the Ranking Member said, we've got to dream big."
"This is not a Republican or a Democratic issue. This is about national pride and leading the way."
"I want an American space program that moves us forward and leads and works with the international community."
"If we make the right investments, we can lead the way once again and lead the 21st century space program."
"We choose to go to the Moon."
"I think if we want to accomplish what we want to accomplish, we have to get back to that"
"Let's actually dedicate the resources, the person power and inspire that next generation."
"you do need focus, and that does help--public support is enhanced when there are timelines and there are benchmarks and people can see that progress."
"we ought to send a strong message to the Administration that these are clearly critical jobs that need to be filled"
"that broad order in my mind is making us less secure and certainly it's worrisome"
"The importance of our investments in NASA and its ability to inspire can't be underestimated."