I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.

Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both.

I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader.

I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.

Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction.

One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.

There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful.

The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth.

Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy.

Well, it's still a bit uncertain, but I will do the consulting, and I'll see how I can contribute. But I'm sure whatever I do will involve the space program. That's where my passion is.

One day, people will be able to buy tickets to visit space.

I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.

Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.

I hope that China will continue with space exploration. It would be logical to have international co-operation. I hope that it will come about and that I can be involved in it.

I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.

There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant.

I spent a lot of my time working in the American module, and he would stay in the Russian segment working on his things, and we'd meet up at meal times. So it actually worked out very well.

But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together.

I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission.

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

If politicians continue to promote separatism in Australia, they should not continue to hold their seats in this parliament. They are not truly representing all Australians, and I call on the people to throw them out.

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.

There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.

Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

There's this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldn't be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians.

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

There are, believe it or not, good politicians.

Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.

As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU.

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.