"If you can’t be good, be colorful."
"I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does."
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Source: Meet the Press with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. October 10, 2004.
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