James Stockdale

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient. ↗

— James Stockdale

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The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation. ↗

— James Stockdale

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And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties. ↗

— James Stockdale

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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

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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

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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

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I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came. ↗

— James Stockdale

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I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't. ↗

— James Stockdale

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I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders. ↗

— James Stockdale

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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

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