Explore Quotes by John Glenn

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

The best space movie in my view is 'Apollo 13.' That's just the way it happened.

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

To me, we have never really exploited our ability in low-Earth orbit.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

As far as entertainment, 'The Right Stuff' is a good movie. As far as a documentary of the early space days, which they purported it to be, it is not at all.

When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense of adventure.

The space station is the most unique laboratory we've ever built. The reason we have it is to do research on materials, people, medical matters, pharmaceuticals - the possibilities are nearly endless.

I pray every day and think everybody should.

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.

One of the first things I learned in the Marine Corps is that any military mission has to be defined as precisely as you can possibly define it, and then you size the force and equipment force to accomplish that mission without fail.