Political Quotes

“I did not know it was John Glenn's birthday. I am so happy I was on the floor when my dear friend from Ohio talked about John Glenn. John Glenn--when I came to the Senate, one of the first Tuesday caucuses we had I watched John Glenn stand and say: I am going to go out on the aircraft career USS Kennedy on Saturday. Would anyone like to go? I was a new Senator. I thought everyone would raise their hand and march off with him. I was the only one who raised my hand. So I did. I went out with him. It was a wonderful experience. The seas were a little bit rough and we landed and that cable snagged that airplane going in. We were there for many hours and the seas got rougher and rougher. The pilots coming in, this was the first time they had landed on an aircraft carrier. We went out on the deck of the ship, and the planes would come in. Oh, man. The crews there, if they did not think the plane could land--it was going too far off the end: ``Dirty. Dirty.'' That meant get the plane up off the carrier, go up and come back and try it again. They did that for quite some time. Then, John Glenn said: I think I should go up in one of those airplanes. So John Glenn went up and flew an airplane. I do not know how old John Glenn was. It was 25 years ago, so he was a young man--he was 65--and here he comes in, landing on the aircraft carrier, John Glenn. Totally changing the subject. A group from Nevada won the Double Dutch skip-roping championship.…”