Political Quotes

“You're a pilot. I think we used this analogy the other day on the floor, because I remember as a kid the biplanes and the early days of flight. My science teacher flew glider planes and designed some of the glider planes that were used in the D-day invasion. He was a guy that hated what he called ``fizzle ed'' because he wasn't in great shape and he didn't like the football jocks. But the ironic thing was he got an award to the National Hall of Fame of Glider Pilots, which is an athletic type of thing because he could do all kinds of aerobatic loops with his glider planes. And he taught me some basics about flying. And what caught my attention was, in the early days of flight you get in an airplane and you do one of these deals where you don't have enough power and you pull the airplane into a stall and the airplane falls over backwards and it'll start to spin. And it was called a graveyard spin, I guess. When pilots got into those things, they kept flying the airplanes into the ground, which ruined their whole afternoon. Finally, somebody realized--I guess a smart pilot decided to gamble his life. He said, I think there's a way out of this problem. And it's counterintuitive. And that is, when you're in that spin, the temptation I guess of pilots is to pull the stick back and try to get the nose of the plane up so you don't fly into the ground. And that just makes it worse.”