John Carter actually said...

"It is one of the great joys that I have had in Congress to get to help, serve on this committee to help the National Science Foundation."

"The fact that we are still flying a rocket engine that has fundamentally been designed by Robert Goddard in the 1920s is just inexcusable."

"We are entrusted with the task of allocating very scarce and precious, hard-earned tax dollars and it is vitally important, of course, that we be very careful to ensure that those hard-earned tax doll..."

"It is very important to us that they get it right."