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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.

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

~James Stockdale

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

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Sybil's my wife, and on the first day of October, that's the first time I knew Ross was going to run.

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

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Soldier

Born: December 23rd, 1923

Died: July 5th, 2005

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