America Quote by James Lovelock

The Russians had got a real head-start into space; America was playing catch-up.

— Margot Lee Shetterly

I'm a child of the Cold War. You do not say, "Oh, my God, there are Russian planes, so I'm going to cede the…

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

It was the time of the Cold War and so there were was a lot of pressure on the - to get going and…

— John Glenn

The Russians did much bigger space launch vehicles for launching satellites and for getting men in orbit. They did that much sooner than America…

— Burt Rutan

And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being…

— Philippe Perrin

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

— John Glenn

If I could do it all over again, I would have never gone to Russia.

— Bill Browder

There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.

— Buzz Aldrin

If Russia had the same military power that America did, earth would be called Russia.

— Greg Gutfeld

“But by leapfrogging the United States into space, the Russians turned even local racial policy into fodder for the international conflict. In forcing the…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

I'm enthralled by the national yearning that the Russians had during the 50s and 60s. The whole century was pretty rough for them. They…

— George Meyer

The day after 9/11, we should have gone to Russia. We did the one thing that George Kennan warned us never to do -…

— Seymour Hersh