"There is no budget more deserving of our attention than the VA budget, and we have asked a new generation of heroes to sacrifice on behalf of our country, and we have an obligation to take care of them when they come home."
"I think we are beginning to move in that direction so that we can help them, and they can help us, and we can understand each other's issues."
"I don't understand that answer. That is an answer that says, in order to make budget cuts, we savage the most successful program we have."
"By proposing a cut of more than $300 million the Administration not only threatens the most successful exploration program in NASA history, it also imperils what is certainly the world's most speciali..."
"Cannibalizing the Mars program which has gotten closer and closer to unlocking the secrets of Mars with each mission is a huge step backwards for NASA."
"This is about America's leadership in planetary science. We are the undisputed world leader."
"ESA is going forward and they are going to Russia, and probably China, and asking them to step in where American has stepped away from its leadership role. And I think that is deeply tragic."
"I think that is a terrible abdication of our leadership role."
"It will not be taken by the United States. It will be taken by the Europeans now in partnership with the Russians."
"It is about what we are going to do in the future, and to rely on MSL is to rely on our past."
"That is a very Orwellian answer, in my view."