National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.