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

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.

John Glenn

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

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.

John Glenn

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

John Glenn

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

John Glenn

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.

John Glenn

You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you're interests are and ambitions.

John Glenn

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.

John Glenn

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

John Glenn

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

John Glenn

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

John Glenn

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

John Glenn

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

John Glenn

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

John Glenn

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

John Glenn

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

John Glenn

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

John Glenn

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

John Glenn

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

John Glenn

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

John Glenn

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.

John Glenn