John Glenn Quotes
I say let's not gamble with American jobs and America's future.
Glenn, John. Address to the Democratic National Convention. San Francisco, CA, 17 Jul. 1984.
The mayor was explaining why he established a high-speed, municipal broadband wireless Internet connectivity in a town of only 6 thousand people. There had been none because the private sector didn’t think that they could make money in Scottsburg. A few companies were thinking of moving to a place where they could get modern technological communications tools.
John Herschel Glenn Jr. was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman and politician. He was the third American in space, and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. Following his retirement from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a Democratic United States Senator from Ohio; in 1998, he flew into space again at age 77.