Political Quotes

“I use that minute to make the point that this bill by its reduction and acceptance of reductions from the administration for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is doing a great disservice to this Nation. NASA is an agency and an institution within the United States which has made immeasurable contributions to the betterment of our society. We have gone forward with a space program which I applaud; but in the process, the administration, year after year, has submitted budgets proposed for NASA which are pitifully inadequate and have starved all the other programs and agencies within NASA to an extent that it is shameful. In aviation alone $400 million has been deducted or reduced from the appropriations for that phase of NASA science and activities. No airplane in the world flies today without the benefit of the research done by NASA on aeronautics. It is virtually a crime. And we must fix it to see that these programs are restored; and we ought to do it at the earliest opportunity.”