University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman's Not Your Father’s Space Race Address to the National Press Club, March 7, 2006:
"Many of you here have seen the latest studies and publicized their ominous findings. The best minds in our country — business leaders like Norm Augustine of Lockheed Martin and Rick Wagoner of GM, university presidents like Shirley Tilghman of Princeton and John Hennessy of Stanford — are profoundly concerned that we are at risk as a nation if we do not commit to more innovation, more math and science, and more basic research."