The Right Stuff (1983)

David Clennon: Liaison Man

Quotes 

• Jack Ridley : [talking to TV]  Attaboy, Gus!

  [talking to Yeager] 

  Jack Ridley : Pull that stuff on flight test, it's all over for him. I say he screwed the pooch, pardner. Plain and simple.

  Chuck Yeager : Yeah, well, sometimes you get a pooch that can't be screwed, ya know?

  Liaison Man : [chuckling]  Exactly! Right now the President's got his own problems with the Bay of Pigs, he doesn't want the astronauts' image tarnished. Nothing these guys do is gonna be called a failure. You'd think the public would know they're just doing what monkeys have done.

  Chuck Yeager : Monkeys? You think a monkey knows he's sittin' on a rocket that might explode? These astronaut boys, they know that, see? I'll tell you somethin'. Takes a special kind of man to volunteer for a suicide mission, especially when it's on TV. Ol' Gus, he did alright.

• Liaison Man : You mean for this "space race", you don't want our best pilots?

  Recruiter : I didn't say that. We want the best pilots that we can get.

• Fred : Hey, y'all want a drink o' whiskey?

  Liaison Man : No, thanks Fred. Just a little coffee.

  Recruiter : I'd like a Coca-Cola.

  Fred : Coke?

  Recruiter : Mm-hm. In a clean glass.