Political Quotes

“I have to say that John Glenn is one of the most amazing people I have ever known, to think that I had the opportunity to serve with him in this body, a man who was an ace in World War II, knocking down enemy aircraft in his marine vehicle. He was an ace in the Korean war and, of course, America's most famous astronaut. I will just say in passing, when I first came here as a Senator, at our Tuesday luncheon, Senator Glenn said: Does anybody want to go with me? I am going to go out on the USS Kennedy, which is an aircraft carrier. He said: I am going to watch some landings. I said: Well, gee, John Glenn, aircraft carrier, which I have never been on. I said: I will try that. And I did. It was interesting. We flew out in an airplane. It was stopped very quickly because a hook grabbed the airplane. Then I watched these new pilots, who had never landed on an aircraft carrier, coming in, wings wobbling. They would wave some off: ``Dirty, dirty''--that is the word they used to get this thing out of there. Lots of them landed. Then John Glenn got in one of those planes and was catapulted off the aircraft carrier and came in on a landing himself. He is an amazing man.”