John Glenn Quotes

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John Glenn

Profession : Astronaut

Birth : July 18, 1921

The time will come when we permit more people in space.

John Glenn

In the old days, the Soviets were using space as a selling point for communism.

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I pray every day and think everybody should.

John Glenn

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.

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

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I didn't see Saddam Hussein as being quite the danger that some other people did.

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Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don't sit on a couch someplace.

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You can always say that it was scarce dollars when Lewis and Clark wanted to go to the West Coast and explore the West. And people complained about it, I understand, from a reading of the history books.

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

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I've never let people push me around in politics.

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Everywhere that Americans spread off the Eastern seaboard, heading west across this country, they put up the schoolhouse first, hired a schoolteacher, and put all the kids in school.

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

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I wouldn't oppose a women's astronaut training program; I just see no requirement for it.

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

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I've seen John Wayne's 'True Grit' about 10 times.

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Those old westerns are the movies I grew up with on Saturday afternoons at the theater.

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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.

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

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

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As far as trying to analyze all the attention I received, I will leave that to others.

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