"The shuttle is now too dangerous, too fragile and too expensive. Seven more flights and then it is retired, going -- like the Spruce Goose and the Concorde -- into the Museum of Things Too Beautiful and Complicated to Survive."
"Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?' The answer is yes, that's what I’m telling you."
"...using their bodies like a barricade between the door and the seating area...a real repudiation meeting was waiting for us, all it lacked to be complete was the eggs and the blows."
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"They are threatening us, saying we'll be intercepted. If I had a parachute, I would jump off."
(h/t:BoingBoing)
"Soldier, empty out your rifle against the oligarchy and not against the people."
"We are going to imitate the Dictatorship of the Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez."
