There is still no cure for the common birthday.

America is in a newly competitive position around the world, and unless we keep our lead in education for all of our people and do the research along with that, other nations will start outdoing us and they will be leaders in the world.

As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.

In America, we have no means of getting to our own Space Station. We have to pay the Russians to put our people up there to send them into space - rendezvous with the Station and bring them back at the end of their stay, and that to me is just wrong. We're supposed to be the world's greatest space-faring nation, and to cancel our own means of getting there I thought was a mistake, even though it would save some money.

I hate to think that we may be out there seven to ten years out and dependent on the Russians for our journey into space.

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

We have an infinite amount to learn both from nature and from each other.