The worst thing that can happen is death and that's not the worst thing in the world either. — 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… — 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
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
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
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
I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't. — James Stockdale Copy Share
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
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
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
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
I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, FA Crusaders. — James Stockdale Copy Share
This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went… — James Stockdale Copy Share
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… — James Stockdale Copy Share
