James Stockdale

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do. ↗

— James Stockdale

#done #felt #got #grown #grown man

In order to do something you must be something. ↗

— James Stockdale

#order #something #you

So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out. ↗

— James Stockdale

#decide #find #first #first thing #get

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

#first #first time #going #i #knew

There was nothing there but black water and American fire power. ↗

— James Stockdale

#black #fire #nothing #power #water

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech. ↗

— James Stockdale

#cal #department #down #head #physics

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

#east #film #generalize #german #guys

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

#ballots #becoming #call #candidate #committed

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

#business #felt #having #helpless #i