"Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days."

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"...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Politics, Power, Government, Class, Wealth

"No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want."

Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist

Politics, Freedom, Choice, Autonomy

"Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, "What kind of peace?"

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Politics, Peace, War, Values, Question

"Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

Politics, Government, Corruption, Stupidity

"I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

Politics, Defense, Terrorism, Civilization

"We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once."

Townsend Harris, American Businessman

Politics, Open, Trade

"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."

Muhammad Ali, American Athlete

Politics, Change, Nations, Poverty

"Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Politics, Danger, War, Power

"Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society."

Pope John Paul II, Polish Clergyman

Politics, Society, America, Example

"The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety."

Steven Magee, British Author

Politics, Enemy, Health, Government, Safety

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"I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web."

Life

"When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it."

Love

"Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while."

Woman

"I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced."

Earth

"I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out."

Thought

"Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!"

Politics

"John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations."

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"No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want."

"Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, "What kind of peace?"

"Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling."

"I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity."

"We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once."

"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."

"Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once."

"Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society."

"The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety."

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"I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web."

"When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it."

"Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while."

"I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced."

"I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out."

"NASA should start thinking about this planet."

"He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one."

"At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military."

"Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!"

"John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations."