If this country crumbles, and he is a Brit so he sees it from outside, it will crumble from within.

The charge that that Committee accepted was to identify actions which federal policymakers could take to enhance the science and technology enterprise.

Let me just send a message to Mayor Fenty.

I think that is going to be a very bleak situation unless some fairly dramatic thing is done.

To put together a group of men and women who are experts in the field, well respected to come up with a proposal or an idea, rather than this being a political issue to be a scientific issue.

the answer is to dramatically increase research and development so that solar panels become cheaper than fossil fuels sooner rather than later.

Until that time, each agency comes in to gather whatever it can for its own area.

Secondly, how many students do we have majoring in math and science and physics and chemistry and biology compared to, say, the Chinese and also India?

But I think that there are many people that really do not believe the United Nations is very balanced.

The country is broke. We are absolutely broke. We have run out of money.

I mean, I think we need scientists, real scientists, people who are honest, ethical, decent, moral who are basing their decisions on science to come up with some of the solutions.

NASA needs to be at the table when these decisions are being made, and when, frankly, when the money is being passed out.

Our economy is very dependent upon, the globalization of the world is dependent upon space.

There is something wrong here. And I know a lot of politicians don't want to say anything about it. But there is something wrong.

I am a great believer that the United States should lead by example and in cooperation.

Our weakness is with a great bulk of the population who are not attaining a minimal level of understanding.

I honestly believe that separating the science basis for what you do from the value judgments that enter into a political decision is a healthy way to go.

What does Trenton make anymore? It should say the world makes and Trenton takes.

We are in decline competitively.

I would hope that we could do much more than we are currently doing.

You cannot do it at one-quarter of the budget, which is basically where the budget for aeronautics went from back in the early part of 2000 or so to where it is now.

I think we are playing with fire in this country in terms of losing our position.

I urge you to really be bold and speak out and even be controversial in the sense because when people get within the Administration, the previous science advisor would never say very, very much.

In order to stabilize the concentration in the atmosphere, which is what everything is really all about, you have got to drop emissions by 80-plus percent.

I really do worry about science.