John Glenn

If there is one thing I’ve learned in my years on this planet, it’s that the happiest and most fulfilled people I’ve…

— John Glenn

To get your name well enough known that you can run for a public office, some people do it by being great…

— John Glenn

There are times when you devote yourself to a higher cause than personal safety.

— John Glenn

I think that it's good for us to be able to travel in space and do research in space, and I emphasize…

— John Glenn

I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it.

— John Glenn

I still love to fly and I'll never get over that.

— John Glenn

America had an emphasis on the individual and so education became available for everyone.

— John Glenn

I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you…

— John Glenn

We used to joke about canned men, putting people in a can and seeing how far you can send them and bring…

— John Glenn

As far as actually setting up colonies of people who would live their whole lives in space, I think we're a long…

— John Glenn

On K-12 education America has gone down, down, down compared to the other nations. It doesn't mean that we have gotten dumber.…

— John Glenn

Exploration, of course, is going to new places, but I don't think we go to new places just solely to say: "Well,…

— John Glenn

That was a real fireball.

— John Glenn

Just because I'm 77 doesn't mean I don't have a dream.

— John Glenn

I think no matter where we go in space to me the important thing is not only getting there and getting back,…

— John Glenn

Most of our competitor nations around the world have a national education system and America is the only major nation in the…

— John Glenn

This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century. We've talked about it before and speculated…

— John Glenn

America put more money into research, into the new and the unknown than any nation in history, and the same thing with…

— John Glenn

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

— John Glenn

Zero G and I feel fine.

— John Glenn

We had an airplane, a Beechcraft Baron, that we - I had since 1981. And Annie [Glenn] and I both of had…

— John Glenn

We thought that the odds of things working OK were up in the upper 90 percent or we wouldn't have gone. But…

— John Glenn

We had a lot of confidence that there was going to be a successful mission. We weren't off on some suicide effort,…

— John Glenn

I hate to think that we may be out there seven to ten years out and dependent on the Russians for our…

— John Glenn

To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to…

— John Glenn