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My fellow astronauts...
At an Apollo 11 aaniversary celebtration

I stand by all the misstatements.

We offer the party as a big tent. How we do that within the platform, the preamble to the platform, or whatnot, that remains to be seen. But that message will have to be articulated with great clarity.

I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate.

I did what any normal person would do at that age. You call home. You call home to your mother and father and say, “I’d like to get into the National Guard.”

The first would be our family. Your family, my family--which is composed of an immediate family of a wife and three children, a larger family with grandparents, aunts, and uncles. We all have our family, whichever that may be.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy. But that could change.

We are not ready for any unforseen event that may or may not occur.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past into the back.

Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

I love California. I grew up in Phoenix.

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind--or not to have a mind. How true that is.

I happen to be a Republican President, ah, the Vice-President.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and as far as I’m concerned, happy campers you will always be.

Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the same distance from the sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in this nation’s history... this century’s history... We all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.

Bobby Knight told me, “There is nothing that a good offense cannot beat a better offense.” In other words, a good offense wins.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

We have been pushing the idea that George Bush is going to make matters much, much worse.

This isn’t a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.