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James Stockdale Quotes

James Stockdale quotes

American Soldier December 23, 1923 – July 5, 2005

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James Stockdale quote: "I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross..."
I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't. James Stockdale
But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical real life experiences than the whole batch of them put together. James Stockdale
This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character. James Stockdale
They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf. James Stockdale
I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double. James Stockdale
James Stockdale quote: "Sybil's my wife, and on the first day of October, that's the..."
Sybil's my wife, and on the first day of October, that's the first time I knew Ross was going to run. James Stockdale
Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive. James Stockdale
We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film. James Stockdale
And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia. James Stockdale
James Stockdale quote: "So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to..."
So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out. James Stockdale
He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam. James Stockdale
James Stockdale quote: "There was nothing there but black water and American fire power."
There was nothing there but black water and American fire power. James Stockdale
Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy. James Stockdale
James Stockdale quote: "I think character is permanent, and issues are transient."
I think character is permanent, and issues are transient. James Stockdale
Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots. James Stockdale

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