Any administration foolish enough to call ketchup a vegetable cannot be expected to cut the mustard.
As far as trying to analyze all the attention I received, I will leave that to others.
Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.
I can't say I've ever had a dream about space or that I ponder it all the time.
I didn't see Saddam Hussein as being quite the danger that some other people did.
I do not have to watch late-night television, watch a movie, to find out what combat is like.
I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.
I have no political affiliations and have always and do now consider myself an independent.
I liked flying, when I got into it, loved it. And I found I was very good at it. I'm not modest about the fact that I was a good pilot.
I pray every day and think everybody should.
I say let's not gamble with American jobs and America's future.
I supported the efforts in Honduras to stop the flow of arms from Nicaragua across to El Salvador.
I wouldn't oppose a women's astronaut training program; I just see no requirement for it.
I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word 'live-acy.' I'm more interested in living.
I've never let people push me around in politics.
We had 83 different space research projects on my last space flight in '98, and they covered the whole gamut.
People keep talking about how we have to go to Mars. We may want to go to Mars sometime.
The best space movie in my view is 'Apollo 13.' That's just the way it happened.
It's something to see a satellite being launched from another satellite.
Just to continue a space program because it's a space program? No, I don't think we have an obligation for that.
We're not up there in space just to joyride around. We're up there to do things that are of value to everybody right here on Earth.
When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense of adventure.
