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. — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
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. — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
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. — James Stockdale Copy Share
And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in… — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it. — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out. — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain… — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't. — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties. — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the… — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical… — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
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… — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
