John Glenn

John Glenn
John Herschel Glenn, Jr.,, is a former aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States senator. He was selected as one of the "Mercury Seven" group of military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA to become America's first astronauts and fly the Project Mercury spacecraft. On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission and became the first American to orbit the Earth and the fifth person in space, after cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov and the sub-orbital flights...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAstronaut
Date of Birth18 July 1921
CountryUnited States of America
I think we have the opportunity here of doing some great things for this country, ... I think through the years, over the past dozen years or so, the pernicious influence of money in political campaigns has become just intolerable. I think we have to correct it and these hearings are going to be the most definitive set of hearings to lay the informational base to really do a good campaign finance reform.
just going down to the corner to get chewing gum.
I think if Annie's in the back of the room, you better clear it with her,
I wish I had the same kind of outrage on the Republican side of this failure of the Republican National Committee and the Dole campaign to produce materials vital to this investigation.
I wish that every flight received this same kind of attention. Each flight deserves it,
That was great, couldn't do any better than that wake-up this morning,
My brother and I both had a very similar response, ... We were 100 per cent against it. It's kind of like 'been there, don't want to do that again.'
some good advice, maybe even out of this committee, come up with a good campaign reform law.
Good for her, ... I think too many people live by the calendar and become couch potatoes. I think people should do what they want to do and what they can do.
If we're just to continue with trying to see how much blood we can let out of Democrats and how much we can wound Democrats and not make it bipartisan, I'm for ending it as quick as we can end this thing, ... I think we had the opportunity to make this bipartisan.
I have been pleasantly surprised by the outpouring of interest in this flight,
I don't have any quarrel with sending written questions or submitting whatever kind of testimony they want over there are the White House. That's up to the president,
I don't blame him wanting to go up,
I am against it, ... I absolutely would not want you to do that.