46 Quotes by James Stockdale

It just - the whole thing reminded me of a May pole dance. I was standing there trying to figure out how I could get my oar in and never really did.

I mean, I really think that I would expect somebody that's leading the country to have some kind of - some kind of courage physically, personally.

In order to do something you must be something.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.