Michael D. Griffin: “I believe this budget request advocates a strategy that is frankly disastrous for the U.S. human space flight program.”

The previous attempts to develop a replacement vehicle for the aging Shuttle represent a failure of national leadership.

We have a space debris challenge. We're not going to be able to do anything in space unless we have some sort of space debris program.

In my judgment, China--and I don't want to say China. I want to say the Chinese Communist Party, fully understands and frequently says that their goal is to be the world's great power.

If we can restore that kind of thinking to a renewed global power competition, then we will actually never have to fight, because our adversaries will not want to take us on.