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Everyone needs to be able to have their own space in which to be themselves.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

All the earth is mine, and I have a right to go all over it and through it.

We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.

We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.

Space is not an enterprise that belongs to the U.S. or to Russia or to China - it is a human endeavor and experience. And that's as it should be.

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us a world of institutions, ideas or possibilities for which we, in turn, owe them something. One of the things we owe them is not to squander them.

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.