"I was a mechanic in the Navy. And mechanics in the Navy are like mechanics in airlines. You may have more stripes than I do, but you don't know how to fix the airplane."

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Source : Speech at U.N. Conference on Environment and Development, delivered day Month 1992, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Gordon Bethune

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