“You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is...” — Chuck Yeager Quote

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.

If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.

Never wait for trouble.

The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those in suburbs or wealthy neighborhoods. If we truly believe in giving all citizens a chance to pursue happiness and pursue their goals, then we cannot continue to marginalize entire groups of people.

Any chance we have to skate for another Olympic medal, it's amazing.

We have had a chance to travel to all 56 counties in this state, and I have had the chance to sit around with cups of coffee and having conversations about what matters to Montanans.