Bill Posey actually said...

"I appreciate the opportunity to come before you today to respectfully urge you to preserve NASA's core mission, human space flight."

"[Their] space program, including ostensible civil projects, supports China's growing ability to deny or degrade the space assets of potential adversaries and enhance China's conventional military capa..."

"I would strongly argue that it is an endeavor that we can ill-afford to ignore if we are to maintain our national security and enhance our economic security."

"Space is the world's military high ground. It is to the United States and the free world, what the Golan Heights is to Israel."