"We recognize the need for transparency."
"The only people who don't want transparency are people who have something to hide."
"Space is the world's military high ground, at least the free world's, it is to the United States in the free world what the Golan Heights is to Israel."
"I appreciate the opportunity to come before you and respectfully urge you to restore and preserve NASA's core mission, which is human space flight."
"The space program, including ostensible civil projects, supports China's growing ability to deny or degrade the space assets of potential adversaries."
"I just don't want us to lose our human space flight focus and mission too."
"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."
"The President's FY 2013 Budget submission has misplaced priorities for Space and National Defense again."