Political Quotes

“Mr. President, that great philosopher, that observer of the national scene, Yogi Berra, once said: ``You better be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you may not get there.'' A bit of that policy is now the perception of President Obama's manned space program. There is a concern that the administration doesn't know where they are going and they may not get there. I said ``perception'' because in reality the President has laid out a visionary manned space program. However, the way the administration rolled out the space program--much to the chagrin of a number of us who were trying to get through to the White House about the way they should roll it out--it was rolled out as a part of the budget and left for people to draw their own conclusions. Among the aerospace and space community, particularly in areas such as Houston at the Johnson Space Center, Huntsville at the Marshall Space Flight Center, and Florida at the Kennedy Space Center, I can tell my colleagues that the perception is that the President has killed the manned space program. In fact, that is the farthest thing from President Obama's mind. He is an enthusiastic fan of the space program. As a matter of fact, we heard him speak many times about how as a little boy his grandfather took him to see the return of some of the Apollo astronauts coming back from the Moon. When he tells that story, his face lights up and you can see the enthusiasm he has.…”