Michael D. Griffin: “We cannot punish people who take risks and break something. We should reward them.”

China is the big problem. And I think we need to focus our efforts on first taking care of the big problems.

The most expensive and time-consuming place to discover a mistake is after I have delivered a weapons system to the field.

We cannot take comfort from parity. We cannot take comfort from the fact that in some areas we are ahead.

In my judgment, the Artemis program is excessively complex, unrealistically priced, compromises crew safety, poses very high mission risk of completion, and is highly unlikely to be completed in a timely manner even if successful.