Bob Bennett: “I very much applaud your top-line budget request. You need the money; you've shown the courage of asking for it.”

We will not only lose the industry, we will lose the skills that go with it.

I believe that this administration has made a very serious mistake in restructuring the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

I can understand the impulse for a moratorium. I am not at all sure that a blanket moratorium as broad as this one will produce any higher degree of safety than a more targeted kind of thing.

I think the implications for this are very serious. NASA, I think, is making a mistake.