JOHN GLENN

This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century.

I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.

I feel sorry for those who measure their patriotism by how often and how viciously they can criticize our government.

We are not perfect. Democracy is a messy business … Democracy depends on people getting and keeping involved … In our democracy, the government is not them; it is us.

The rankest form of hypocrisy. Laws that are good enough for everybody else ought to be good enough for us.

The Reagan people want four more years, but the way they're going some of them will get ten to twenty.

At a time of tight budgets, unless something is really broken and not working, they [his congressional colleagues] just don't get excited about it.

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

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

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

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

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

If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.

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

In orbit, you're keyed up and aware of everything going on, every little noise, anything that may have special meaning because of where you are.

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.

I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested in living.

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

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.

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

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

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