If the Air Force is interested in participating in this program, gee, I welcome it, ... I mean, it's the Air Force, and this is an airplane.

It takes out a big organizing force. He was really a centerpiece in terms of fundraising, and he was an ideological anchor, and, obviously, as the majority leader in Congress had a major ripple effect on the flow of money to Texas.

It's going to help our child with the work force.

Right now, the techniques for gene therapy are kind of brute force. You put the gene in and hope it goes into the right place. There's no selection. What we would like to do is put the gene into stem cells, grow them and watch them to be as sure as one can be that we've got the right gene into the right cells and nothing untoward has happened.

Corporal Rubin answered the call to duty with valor, integrity and unyielding bravery, ... I cannot think of anyone who better exemplifies a love of country, a willingness to sacrifice through his personal actions, than Ted Rubin.

You have an infrastructure here that provides the Army with the organization. It helps us develop our doctrine, our tactics, techniques and procedures. (It) looks at our organization, helps us develop leaders -- all those ingredients that go into making your Army and my Army the best in the world,