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.

We are not doing enough with our entire population, so that is why I would say we are in decline.

If you put together a group of people whose judgment was strong and that you trusted, what they would be looking at is what kind of demand, what kind of capability do we have.

I think what President Kennedy did on saying we were going to put a man on the moon was very, very positive.

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.

Aeronautics is really important for the nation, and important for jobs and everything else.

If we had given science all the money we gave AIG, can you imagine how they would be doing?

Let us not repeat the Cold War and have some sort of a race to someplace we have already been.

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.

It is my recollection it was a $150 million increase in aeronautics, which in effect doubles the research budget of the aeronautics program of NASA.