03/30/2011
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"Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for your leadership over the years on this and other issues."
"We should get away from that and we should be going onto this next generation."
"What we are interested in making sure is that the money that we are spending on research actually is not done for the sake of research but instead is done to make sure we're doing things that improve ..."
"There could be an asteroid or a near-Earth object that could come and wipe out half the world if not the entire planet."