Explore Quotes by John Glenn

Just to continue a space program because it's a space program? No, I don't think we have an obligation for that.

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

The conquest of space is not merely a technological project of interest to a handful of select scientists and specialists, valuable though that research and information may be.

Probably, had World War II not come along and intervened, I would have tried to be a doctor. My son's a doctor, and I still take some medical journals to this day.

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

I was hooked on aviation, made model airplanes, and never thought I would be able to fly myself. It cost too much. But then World War II came along and changed all that.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Any administration foolish enough to call ketchup a vegetable cannot be expected to cut the mustard.

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 liked flying, when I got into it, loved it. And I found I was very good at it. I'm not modest about the fact that I was a good pilot.

I have no political affiliations and have always and do now consider myself an independent.

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.

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