“I was speaking to thousands of people in New Hampshire when a nice young man asked me what I thought about the project being planned to send humans to Mars. "I think it's wonderful," I told him. "But I want to rebuild our infrastructure first on Earth, okay?" I mean, I don't understand how we can put a man on the moon but we can't fix the potholes on the way to O'Hare International Airport. Where are our priorities?”

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