Political Quotes

“I thank my friend representing Princeton, New Jersey, who has a doctorate in physics, who is a ``Jeopardy!'' award winner, who is, perhaps, one of the most academically advanced Members of the Congress. It is interesting that he is the one who knows enough to know what we don't know in this Congress. My concern is that many of us don't know enough to know what we don't know. Madam Chairman, the size of computers is shrinking by about 50 percent every couple of years, and their capacity--their power and their speed--is doubling, yet we can't understand the implications of that, which applies to all of our constituencies. We just mandated that 30 percent of the energy that the military spends, which is billions of dollars, has to be from non-carbon-polluting forms of energy. Do we know whether that is achievable? We just committed yesterday $11 billion for computer interoperability for electronic medical records. We have to understand the implications of our decisions, and the OTA helps us to be able to do that.”