John Pike Quotes (69 Quotes)

If you suspected somebody else was doing that trick to you, these things would come in very handy for plucking them away.

There are pretty elaborate rules and regulations on this subject. People have difficulty at times understanding what the rules are.

This is their Kennedy Space Center. All they've got connecting the building where they assemble the missiles and the launch pad is a dirt road through the middle of a rice paddy.

It's somewhere between irrelevant and counterproductive. Since the Iraqi army disintegrated, the weapon of choice has become a sniper. That's the ultimate in precision firepower.

It was a defining symbol of an era. For its supporters, it was 'peace through strength.' For its opponents, it was 'the mad momentum of the arms race.' Both sides cared about it so much. Now it's going out, and nobody even notices.

I don't know where the agency runs its operations from, but certainly here in the United States. None of that is being done line-of-sight in theater.

They are one-company towns. That's going to drive the local political activism to keep the bases open.

We're supposed to be in winter, but it doesn't look like any winter weather is coming.

If we give the Air Force enough money and enough time, the Airborne Laser will probably achieve many of its goals.

It has been a long time since I have not been able to get a look at the cockpit as I get on a plane.

You do have to wonder, over time, what the congressional appetite is going to be for that line item.

What would happen if Ellsworth stays open Dyess wouldn't get all the kinds of people and aircraft it was expecting. If Dyess is not going to pick up B-1s, I think Texas wanted some give-me.

If you're not going to have a lunar landing until 2018, how are you going to keep people and Congress interested

My original reaction to 'cheaper, faster, better' is that two out of three ain't bad. Pick the two of those three that you want, because you can't have all three.

The strategy is to get China to waste money on things that we know are not feasible, while discouraging them from working on things that we believe to be quite promising, ... The U.S. continues to fund work in this field, despite the fact that it contravenes known laws of physics.

They have all kinds of people that would like to embrace martyrdom.

It slowly dawned on them that the collaboration between Pakistan, North Korea and Iran was an ongoing and serious problem. It was starting to sink in on them that it was one program doing business in three locations and that anything one of these countries had they all had.

I think the United States needs to engage with India and Pakistan to help them deploy a limited number of nuclear weapons in the most stabilizing fashion possible.

Having any kind of a gap, whether it's three years or longer, between the shuttles and the CEV is really dangerous. It might make sense to an accountant, but not to a space cadet.