Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we are going back into space with Americans on American rockets, and we are going to Mars. We are on the cusp of the next big breakthrough in space exploration. It is interesting that this is at the very time that in our culture here on Earth, the movie that is harkening back--``Star Wars''--is coming out again, and it is going to be such a blockbuster at the box office. What is fictional in ``Star Trek'' and ``Star Wars'' is now becoming factual. In large part, it is what has been done in the Nation's space program since the shutdown of the space shuttle back in 2011 and in the preparation of the new vehicles--the new rockets, the new spacecraft, the new satellites, the new exploratory missions that have gone on. Who among us, merely three decades ago, would have thought the Hubble Space Telescope would look back into the far reaches of the universe-- close to the beginning of that universe--and start to unlock secrets through this telescope that is orbiting the Earth that was put up by humans in the U.S. space shuttle? Who among us would believe that we now are going to launch a telescope in 2018 that will look back in time to the very beginning of the source of light in the universe--the big bang--and understand this universe all the more and how it evolved in this magnificent creation that we earthlings observe of the heavens?…”