"It's not at all clear that we understand what we're looking at."

"It's not at all clear that we understand what we're looking at."
Rob Manning
Mars rover mission official, on new microscopic images the rovers took of the rock dubbed "El Capitan."
"For too many years, taxpayer money has been chopped to ribbons by the gold-plated rotors."
Keith Ashdown
Vice president of policy at Taxpayers for Common Sense, on the Army's decision to abandoning the proposed Comanche helicopter.
"It's a lot like you're going down the highway and you can set your own speed limit."
Richard Miller
Of the Government Accountability Project, on a shelved government proposal to let contractors at federal nuclear facilities pick which safety rules they should follow.