James Stockdale quotes

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient. (James Stockdale)
I was tortured fifteen times, thats 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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
James Stockdale
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. View quote
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. View quote
James Stockdale
They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech. View quote
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. View quote
James Stockdale
On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes. View quote
James Stockdale
I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders. View quote
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)
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. View quote
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. View quote
James Stockdale
I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't. View quote
James Stockdale
The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation. View quote
James Stockdale