I deeply appreciate your service to the country.

If the Russians decide to just cancel our ability to use Russian vehicles to get to the International Space Station, what is your contingency plan?

we have always made sure to plus up and protect NASA's funding levels.

This whole committee is devoted to ensuring that NASA has the resources and the support that you need, sir, to do your mission.

Vladimir Putin is reminiscent of Joe Stalin, he is very aggressive.

it is not political, it is a setback, no matter who is in the White House.

I know that Mr. Serrano would feel the same way about the Arecibo Telescope as well.

Mr. Jefferson liked to say that liberty is the firstborn child of science, which is absolutely true.

As Mr. Jefferson said, he liked the dreams of the future better than the memories of the past.

the work that you do and the grants that you award, the scientific research that is conducted by universities and researchers across the country, should be driven by the facts and the sciences and all of us should do everything we can to…

NASA's a strategic, vital, absolutely vital to the nation's security and prosperity for the future and it just is maddening...