John Rice Carter

Do not do anything to damage your sterling reputation.

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

You are going to need that option for deep--

We want to make sure that you have got the plutonium necessary for future missions.

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 dollars are spent wisely and targeted very…

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 want to make sure that you have the resources you need and the freedom that you need and support to do what is on your plate.

You are a true American hero, great inspiration I know to a lot of young people all over the country.

It is just a privilege to be here to serve as chairman, to follow in Frank Wolf's footsteps who has done so much for so many years to help NASA and the scientific community.

I am strongly opposed to this FCC regulation that just came out, I am deeply concerned that this regulation that the FCC has just come out with is going to put the government in a position to regulate the Internet like a utility and the…

In closing, Mr. Secretary, we must make certain that in meeting the demands of the fiscal austerity, we do not leave any question about our will and our ability to defend ourselves and our interests around the world.

Sequester did not create ISIS, that depraved, barbaric force that grew as a result of our premature withdrawal from Iraq.

I must also mention the budget makes some decisions that many in Congress will resist.

We are hollowing out the force. And the concern is, what is the strategy about that real problem?

I think we are verging on the edge of that, in my opinion, right now.

BCA is the law of the land. And, therefore, if we exceed the caps, we are going to be talking about sequester, which I hate, everybody at Fort Hood hates, and everybody in my district hates.

The sequester will have serious ramifications for our troops and our national security.

The sequester did not create ISIS.

The sequester did not create the existing security climate that reflects indecision, hesitation, or some call it ambivalence in our defense in foreign policy.

It is important to get this data.

If we are not confident in that data, maybe the Congress needs to act to have somebody collect it.

At some point that is an act of war.

The government has to come in and say, 'How far can this person go to protect their own?'

It is unlawful for a private entity to hack back, and it makes good sense to me.