Political Quotes

“I just want to add, again to all of the things you have just said very ably, I was with Dan Golden on Monday with astronaut David Lowe, and I also had Rick Seerfoss, the astronaut on a previous mission that was up in New Hampshire, we went and in 22 days visited with 7500 kids. You talk about a 38-year-old colonel with 3 kids, an Eagle Scout, a role model that can talk about math and science and doing your homework and reaching out and doing the things that we should be doing in an exciting way and how exciting life is in general and talking about his travels in space and some of the products that we have been able as a by-product of the space program, the space station, and all of this. I asked Dan Golden on Monday morning if he would be willing to have the astronauts join us in our effort in terms of role models so that we can start talking about this in space as the next mission goes up. I hope that will be successful. We have just got to be able to reach out. We ought to think about doing drug testing for Members of Congress in terms of a volunteer effort, and then staffs, and then potentially maybe every person that gets a Government paycheck, because what is the big deal if we really want to do this, we have got to declare war on it and we have got to be prepared to win the war. We have got to just say that, hey, we have a choice.…”