Political Quotes

“I am proud that Tennesseeans stand together in a bipartisan way today. Of course, I represent the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Oak Ridge is a lead laboratory for high-speed computing. So I come with great excitement today because our Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development of the Committee on Appropriations has actually gone beyond what we were authorized to do or what the administration asked for on supercomputing, because our chairman, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Hobson), believes, as we believe, that this is the seed corn for the future; that we must make these investments if we are to have a robust economy and a very high quality of life and experience the growth that this country deserves and, frankly, we should expect. And it comes with scientific investment. Basic research, for years, through the physical sciences, led to the breakthroughs that we enjoy today.”