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James Stockdale
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Quotes by 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.
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The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my – in my estimation.
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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.
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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.
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I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven’t.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The worst thing that can happen is death and that’s not the worst thing in the world either.
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