"Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for your leadership over the years on this and other issues."
"We've spent billions of dollars supposedly on research."
"Is this lack of progress due to being stymied by scientific obstacles that we can't seem to get past, or is this a result of regulation and bureaucracy?"
"There could be an asteroid or a near-Earth object that could come and wipe out half the world if not the entire planet."
"if we can just give these young people a world in which their opportunities are present, but by not doing things about debris or a possible threat from an asteroid, we're doing a great disservice to t..."
"This is a product of a couple of Senators who are bullheaded and a couple of Senators who are basically watching out for their own little domain rather than what's good overall for the country."
"there's no reason in the world why, if a private company can do something to make a profit at it, that we should take our limited budget for NASA and spend it on something that could be done and made ..."
"But we know that with the expenditure of the kind of money that we've spent on fusion energy, we could have developed fission energy alternatives that are for sure not just computer models but are for..."
"I would love to believe in the dream of fusion energy. I'd love to believe that."
"I think the American people deserve us to go for a for-sure outcome of electricity that we could spend the same amount of money on rather than something that could work because the computer models tel..."
"I think the administration is doing well in projecting those policies that will bring peace rather than the 8 years we have had that have brought chaos and a rise of power of radical Islam."