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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-stockdale/he-s-a-novice-but-he-s-had-these-he-s-experienced-in-leadership-in/)

[James Stockdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-stockdale/)

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## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-stockdale/i-mean-i-didn-t-i-should-have-demanded-attention-of-the-boss-maybe-or/)

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> [And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-stockdale/and-so-i-mean-he-declared-war-right-there-and-then-in-so-many-words/)

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> [Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-stockdale/do-the-right-thing-even-if-it-means-dying-like-a-dog-when-no-one-s/)

[James Stockdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-stockdale/)

> [So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-stockdale/so-the-first-thing-that-went-on-was-to-decide-trying-to-find-a-time/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-stockdale/i-was-tortured-fifteen-times-that-s-total-submission-they-did-that/)

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> [I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-stockdale/i-never-had-a-single-conversation-about-politics-with-ross-perot-in/)

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> [And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-stockdale/and-we-had-our-own-laws-i-mean-i-wrote-them-and-we-had-our-own/)

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> [On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-stockdale/on-the-eighteenth-of-december-1972-when-we-thought-we-were-getting/)

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> [But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-stockdale/but-there-were-highs-as-well-as-lows-it-was-as-though-they-said/)

[James Stockdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-stockdale/)

> [Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-stockdale/great-leaders-gain-authority-by-giving-it-away/)

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> [In order to do something you must be something.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-stockdale/in-order-to-do-something-you-must-be-something/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-stockdale/we-couldn-t-generalize-on-the-people-some-of-them-were-known-to-be/)

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> [I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, FA Crusaders.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-stockdale/i-was-commanding-officer-of-a-supersonic-fighter-squadron-fa-crusaders/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-stockdale/this-idea-as-you-know-that-i-have-firm-convictions-that-the-idea-of/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-stockdale/he-s-a-novice-but-he-s-had-these-he-s-experienced-in-leadership-in/)

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