Bob Bennett

Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting.

Okay. Now, in spite of all of the talk about the top line going up so dramatically, your request for day-to-day operations is down 7 percent, or $1.3 billion.

The agency's track record in managing large construction projects is not encouraging.

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

The Federal Government will use Federal power and Federal dollars to do this for one portion of the citizenship and not the other.

I am concerned with the priorities that I see in the budget with respect to energy research.

If you kill the industrial base of solid rocket motors now with this action, in 2015 you cannot get it back.

I don't believe the current plan of the President will allow the United States, a country which has been the leader in space technology development for over 40 years, to continue to lead the world in space exploration.

But the end of the Space Shuttle was not supposed to be the end of human space exploration.

We have launched over 100 shuttle flights, all of which have begun their journey on solid rocket motors made in Utah, a fact of which I am extremely proud.

This issue is extremely important to Utah and to me personally, so I am sincere in my gratitude.

If I was sitting on the board of directors and you were making this pitch to the board of directors as to the direction in which you are going to take the company, I would tell you, you haven't made the sale.

Businesses thrive on certainty.

We are looking at a 20 percent reduction in the water supply for the Colorado River.

For the record, Secretary Gates, was anyone at the Pentagon consulted about the national security implications prior to NASA making a decision to cancel the Constellation program?

Most disturbing to me and others who share my concern about this--this is not strictly a Utah parochial issue--is the lack of evidence--it is a complete lack of evidence--of any coordination between the National Aeronautics and Space…

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

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

We live at a time when there is talk of a 'potential' or 'growing' missile threat from another nation almost every day in the news.

I think there is going to be an impact both on the jobs and on the amount of money that the Federal Government receives.

It is pretty tough to come up with any example of a Federal program that can produce $146 return on every $1 spent.

The revenues that come from oil and natural gas, next to the income tax, are the largest source of revenue in the Federal Government.

The primary issues that we are faced with right now in the country are jobs and the deficit.

In the RFS II rulemaking, did Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rely on the DOE small refinery study that Congress had determined to be unreliable and needed to be revised?

I think we have plowed most of the ground we need to plow.