John Glenn

“It has been my observation that the happiest of people, the vibrant doers of the world, are almost always those who are using - who are putting into play, calling upon, depending upon-the greatest number of their God-given talents and capabilities.”

“I supported the efforts in Honduras to stop the flow of arms from Nicaragua across to El Salvador.”

“I say let's not gamble with American jobs and America's future.”

“The political graveyards are full of people who don't respond.”

“We're not up there in space just to joyride around. We're up there to do things that are of value to everybody right here on Earth.”

“You can't relive your life.”

“I do not have to watch late-night television, watch a movie, to find out what combat is like.”

“Quite often, while I'm getting up in the morning, I think my warranty is running out on these body parts because it's not working quite the way it used to.”

“It's something to see a satellite being launched from another satellite.”

“An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.”

“We had 83 different space research projects on my last space flight in '98, and they covered the whole gamut.”

“People keep talking about how we have to go to Mars. We may want to go to Mars sometime.”

“If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited to solve every problem on Earth before they did their research or before they were curious about doing something new, we'd never have made a lot of the progress we have.”

“The Discovery was the most intricate, complex machine man has ever built. It's a testament to our time.”

“Love is a combination of friendship, passion, and respect.”

“I think even in bad times it's good to keep some money going into research. And that's the purpose of the whole space program. It's not just exploration and going to see how far we can go out into space and keep people alive and bring them back, although exploration certainly has its place.”

“I can't say I've ever had a dream about space or that I ponder it all the time.”

“I spent 23 years in the military. I think I'm in a good position to make those judgments on what is necessary in the military and what is not necessary, without buying a lot of things that would not really add to our security.”

“There is still no cure for the common birthday.”

“Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.”