"I think there is a clear need for advanced and increased research in many areas."
"Can you share with us why this might be?"
"What are you going to do if the G4 is down for maintenance or because of an accident?"
"More hurricanes have ripped through my home state of Florida than any other state in the Nation."
"I'll never forget, in the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew, in 1992, in which all of the Habitat for Humanity homes survived, when so many of those other subdivisions were just blown away."
"So, you're not worried about the column of air from the max altitude of the C-130 and the P-3?"
"Wilma actually hit an unurbanized part of the State. The counterclockwise winds hit the coast actually down there in the Ten Thousand Islands."
"All of your written statements will be entered into the record, so that we have that basis of information."
"Hurricanes are amongst the most destructive natural phenomena on earth."
"Evacuation is absolutely critical, particularly to lessen and mitigate any impact on people and any possibility of human deaths."
"There is no civilization there, except mangroves. But, that's right, across that moist Everglades, it kept up its speed, and by the time it got to Miami and Fort Lauderdale, it did some real damage."