143 Quotes by John Glenn

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.

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

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

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.

You can't relive your life.

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.

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.

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