Tom Carper actually said...

For every President I have seen here since Ronald Reagan right up through President Obama, there is a similar kind of discipline at work.

We need to focus while we work on the symptoms, which are more visible and which we talk about a whole lot, but think about the underlying c...

My real question is, is it a fool's errand to think that we can develop the technology...

I think that is true for all of us. Everything we all do, every Government program we have, I suspect we can do better.