"To improve conditions in our society we need to create more wealth through greater productivity based upon new technology. We should be restless and dissatisfied with our slowness in overcoming social ills, and I hope the space program will continue to spur us onward here. If we can go to the Moon, why can't we build great and shining cities? Why can't we eliminate ignorance, crime, and poverty? If our space program highlights such questions and helps form a national commitment to find new solutions, it will have served the nation well."

- Dr. Thomas O. Paine (NASA Administrator, August, 1969)

"What is needed is a greater education program so that the ordinary people can intelligently engage in a discussion about whether the space program has an value at all and should continued. The current U.S. space policy is simple: it does not exist. The purpose of the current program is not to go into space and explore it, but rather to provide jobs. There has been a definite lack of success over the last decade in moving out into space, and unless words are backed up by support and funding our descendants will be wondering why we stopped after such a great start."

- John F. Graham (affiliation and context unknown to me, 1995)