Political Quotes

“Mr. President, this week marks an extraordinary milestone in the history of humanity. Fifty years ago, on July 16, 1969, the entire world watched in awe as the Apollo 11 mission took off from Cape Canaveral. Four days later, on July 20, again the entire world held its breath as the lunar lander made its descent and as Neil Armstrong and then Buzz Aldrin both stepped onto the surface of the Moon. As Neil Armstrong famously said, ``It's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.'' On Saturday, 50 years will have passed since man first stepped onto the Moon. We are celebrating that as a nation, and we are celebrating that across the world--the 50 years that have passed since. We are also looking forward, with hope and optimism, to the next 50 years of space exploration and America's continued strong leadership in space. I thank my friend Senator Peters for his leadership on this legislation that we have just passed through the Senate. It is legislation that ensures that those artifacts, those footprints, made by those historic pioneers for humanity will not be disturbed, will not be violated, will not be destroyed but, rather, that they will be preserved for future generations so that decades and centuries from now those shrines to the incredible imagination and the unstoppable potential of the human spirit will be preserved for all of history. This is a time of partisan division on many, many issues.…”