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Zero G and I feel fine.
That was a real fireball.
You can't relive your life.
The moment of twilight is simply beautiful.
I pray every day and think everybody should.
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
I still love to fly and I'll never get over that.
I've never let people push me around in politics.
I've seen John Wayne's 'True Grit' about 10 times.
I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it.
Just because I'm 77 doesn't mean I don't have a dream.
The time will come when we permit more people in space.
The political graveyards are full of people who don't respond.
Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.
I say let's not gamble with American jobs and America's future.
This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century.
To me, we have never really exploited our ability in low-Earth orbit.
We (the DOE) are poisoning our people in the name of national security.
I still have my [flight] license and I can still pass a flight physical.
It's something to see a satellite being launched from another satellite.
We have an infinite amount to learn both from nature and from each other.
In the old days, the Soviets were using space as a selling point for communism.
I can't say I've ever had a dream about space or that I ponder it all the time.
The best space movie in my view is 'Apollo 13.' That's just the way it happened.
There are times when you devote yourself to a higher cause than personal safety.
Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar.
I didn't see Saddam Hussein as being quite the danger that some other people did.
As far as trying to analyze all the attention I received, I will leave that to others.
Those old westerns are the movies I grew up with on Saturday afternoons at the theater.
People keep talking about how we have to go to Mars. We may want to go to Mars sometime.
America had an emphasis on the individual and so education became available for everyone.
I wouldn't oppose a women's astronaut training program; I just see no requirement for it.
I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.
I do not have to watch late-night television, watch a movie, to find out what combat is like.
Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don't sit on a couch someplace.
I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested in living.
I supported the efforts in Honduras to stop the flow of arms from Nicaragua across to El Salvador.
If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.
Any administration foolish enough to call ketchup a vegetable cannot be expected to cut the mustard.
The Discovery was the most intricate, complex machine man has ever built. It's a testament to our time.
To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.
You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you're interests are and ambitions.
When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense of adventure.
We had 83 different space research projects on my last space flight in '98, and they covered the whole gamut.
I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you in eternity.
Just to continue a space program because it's a space program? No, I don't think we have an obligation for that.
I hate to think that we may be out there seven to ten years out and dependent on the Russians for our journey into space.
As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.
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.
I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody's ever been.