Liaison Man Quotes in The Right Stuff (1983)

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... But you'd think the public'd know that they're just doing what monkeys have done...

Chuck Yeager: Monkeys? Think a monkey knows he's sitting on top of a rocket that might explode? These astronaut boys, they know that, see? Well, I'll tell you somethin' - it takes a special kind of man to volunteer for a suicide mission, especially one that'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.