Jim Bridenstine

I would conduct myself in a very nonpartisan way doing what is in the best interest of the United States of America exclusively.

Absolutely, yes, ma'am.

Discrimination based on that, prohibited, absolutely. It should be prohibited.

I want to see everybody who works at NASA be able to excel based on the merits of their work exclusively.

I believe that every person has dignity and worth, and every person has value.

Look. Everybody knows the lawlessness of this President. He picks and chooses which laws he is going to enforce.

NASA has a history, sir, of attracting the absolute best and the brightest. It has a history of being the best place to work in the U.S. Government.

I absolutely believe that every human being has value and every person has worth. And it is my commitment to you, and to the Senate, and to those employees that they will be treated fairly and equally.

You have my commitment that I will absolutely, that will be a high priority for me, for the interest of our country.

We have to be better at that than anybody else in the world, and I am absolutely committed to that.

Without question and, in fact, I have been to Stead Field, the Reno Air Races.

The Defense of Marriage Act has been overturned by the Supreme Court. The law is now different and I will absolutely follow the law, should I be confirmed.

I do believe, from my heart, that every human being has dignity and worth, and that each person needs to be treated as though they are a valued member of the team.

I do not think that is defensible.

The challenge that we have is that the Air Force is providing space situational awareness to the entire world for absolutely free.

We have to create a situational awareness domain to where we can mitigate the effects of that debris.

Hypersonics in my view, sir, is probably the most important right now.

NASA is not a military agency. It is an agency that is necessary for the peaceful uses of outer space.

I would say that serving in a political capacity does not disqualify somebody from serving as the NASA Administrator.

I think that the NASA Administrator should not be driven by political influence.

I would tell them the same thing that I am going to tell you right now. That carbon dioxide is, in fact, a greenhouse gas...

It is my highest ambition that science would drive the direction of NASA and the Science Mission Directorate.

NASA is the only agency in the world that can do this kind of science, and really the best agency in the world, and we need to make sure that we are understanding it better every day.

I believe that the scientific consensus is that humans are contributing and have contributed to the climate change that we have seen.

My constituents get killed in tornadoes.