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The way I see it, what is going to come out of the moon activities is a respect for U.S. leadership.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.

But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.

To deliver vast new resources to humanity, we must pioneer and occupy the moon, Mars, and perhaps even beyond.

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.

Many of us in Congress have been calling on the Administration to articulate a bold mission for NASA. It seems that the President is answering that call. I wholeheartedly support his vision for going back to the moon, and from there to worlds beyond.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.