"last year a reauthorization of the National Estuary Program... was passed unanimously through Congress, demonstrating the strong bipartisan support for this important initiative."
"the genius of the NEP is that it empowers local communities to take responsibility for managing their estuaries."
"I cannot stress enough the importance of having the Competitive Grant Program put in place in a timely manner."
"As policymakers, I think it's important that we all know what we don't know, and therefore, our attempts to predict the future impact of regulations are always speculative and subject to error."
"we're trying to make sure or ensure that NASA considers everything that they do as a steppingstone to going to Mars"
"when everything is a priority, nothing is a priority"
"the words that come out of your mouth are like gospel to me"
"Yes, I am afraid any time we talk about giving up sovereignty, a mini-U.N. where we carry the burden and everybody votes against us every opportunity they have."
"the NASA budget is kind of like--been like a big pinata occasionally"
"I have always considered this to be one of the benefits to the legal entity regulation in the United States, and I wonder if we move toward the group supervision provisions, if it will alter our syste..."
"selling our colleagues on the importance of space is not an easy job either"