Quotes About Progress

Since the Korean War, U.S. and South Korea have established an enduring friendship with shared interests, such as denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, combating aggression abroad and developing our economies.

South Korea first allowed women into the military in 1950 during the Korean War. Back then, female soldiers mainly held administrative and support positions. Women began to take on combat roles in the 1990s when the three military academies, exclusive to men, began accepting women.

I want to make Seoul the front line of the new South Korea. Seoul is sleeping, and I want to wake it up.

As a young boy growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was inspired by the nascent space age.

There was a lot of feeling that with an African-American president, life on the South Side of Chicago would be radically different.

You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us.

Southeast Asia is now a region full of hope because of the freedoms America has helped foster.

Sovereignty of Afghanistan must be accepted categorically by Pakistan so that we can move forward.

The people who built the space program - both Soviet and U.S. - were readers of science fiction.

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.

Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.

Eventually there are going to be cities in space.

There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.

I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board.

You see countries like India really investing in their space program because they see it as inspirational and good for their economy.

We look forward with great anticipation to see the course that the National Space Council charts for America's future in space.

Just to continue a space program because it's a space program? No, I don't think we have an obligation for that.

So we originally expected to make about 35 gigawatt hours at the cell level and about 50 gigawatt hours at the module or pack level. Now we are expecting to do about 150 gigawatt hours in the same volumetric space as the original design.

Aside from communications satellites, space is devoid of industry.

The time will come when we permit more people in space.

I think the more people that can go up to space and look back is great, but it's not just this overview and look back effect. There's also a lot of concrete gains from getting more people up in space.

I think even in bad times it's good to keep some money going into research. And that's the purpose of the whole space program. It's not just exploration and going to see how far we can go out into space and keep people alive and bring them back, although exploration certainly has its place.