Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something.

There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need.

My mother had a fear of doctors - other than her daughter marrying one.

I have a reputation for being the hardest working person in Congress.

I don't really know what the future of science is. Maybe we have come to the end of science; maybe science is a finite field. The inventions resulting from this finite field, however, are boundless.

If I want to understand the laws of physics I have to first believe what I read about physics. I have to have faith in what I read.

I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.

Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our working day, we still have time to do scientific research. We have to be ready to support those Shuttle visits in a lot of different ways.