Kay Hutchison actually said...

"We have got to be a reliable partner in order to keep an alliance like that going."

"Will you be able to tell how long ago it became extinct or the water went away?"

"Just to follow up, we always hear that the most important thing that we could find is that there might be evidence of water, which then might lead to some thought that there was some kind of life."

"How fast--you are talking about an area bigger than Connecticut. How fast can the Curiosity move so that it can cover the amount of land that you are trying to cover in the time that you have?"