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The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens.

David Petraeus

After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair.

David Petraeus

People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.

Eugene Cernan

We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.

Edgar Mitchell

We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.

Edgar Mitchell

I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.

Edgar Mitchell

First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict.

Brent Scowcroft

Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.

Brent Scowcroft

While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.

Creighton Abrams

You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.

Creighton Abrams

I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.

George Stoneman

It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.

John L. Phillips

It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.

John Poindexter

TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.

John Poindexter

And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.

James Stockdale

The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation.

James Stockdale

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

Chuck Yeager

In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.

Chuck Yeager

You can't always get someone where you want to with just sticks. There have to be some carrots, there have to be some other shaping things.

Dennis C. Blair

I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate.

Derrick Bell

Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.

Derrick Bell