Quotes About Progress

Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.

NASA has made a difference.

At Indy, we are the NASA of the production-car world, and that's clearly why manufacturers are involved - it's such a good testbed.

'The Martian' may be fiction, but at NASA, we are working to make it a reality.

Floyd Thompson, a white man, desegregated NASA. Period.

My dad worked with Mary Jackson very closely at one point. I knew Katherine Johnson as well. They were all part of this group of black engineers and scientists within this larger NASA community.

You think NASA is going to be cutting edge, but they've got so many buildings that are just left over from the '60s. It's old.

In terms of goals for NASA before I die, we need to be living on Mars. And I might not live that long, so they better get on with it!

Going to Mars would make NASA great again.

The folks at NASA really look at the world and try to envision how things can be better.

I think our sport is much better off with a successful female driver in NASCAR.

AI cloud is just very, very nascent.

I want to go to Nashville and get cracking on this album.

I see interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a Jew in Nashville. I'm a gay person in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. That's a huge leap forward.

Natalie Portman never looks back, ever. Ever!

To be a great nation and a great people, you have to do great things.

I am mortal. I want the nation to get used to freedom before I die.

I've said it before, but community colleges are the best-kept secret in the nation.

We know that if you educate a girl, as the saying goes, you educate a nation. That girl will get married later, she will have fewer children, she's more likely to earn an income, and that income is more likely to be plowed back into the family so that the family benefits.

My mother made countless sacrifices so that her children - and all children - could grow up in a better nation and world.

California serves as our nation's cutting edge on many fronts.

Help me build the nation, not destroy it from within.

The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency.

I left DOJ's leadership back in 2005. At the time, we were still building our national security capabilities in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. And we'd made a lot of progress.