“Air power alone does not guarantee America’s security, but I believe it best exploits the nation’s greatest asset – our technical skill.”

-Hoyt Vandenberg

“Nuts.”

– Gen. Anthony MacAuliffe, said while replying to a request for his surrender

“I think America’s strength is in innovation.”

-Lonnie Johnson

“We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds.”

-Chester W. Nimitz

“I have been to the end of the earth,
I have been to the end of the waters,
I have been to the end of the sky,
I have been to the end of the mountains,
I have found none that are not my friends.”

-Navajo Proverb

“I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.”

-Christa McAuliffe