"On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we……" — 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."
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James Stockdale
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29 Quotes by James Stockdale
James Stockdale has 29 quotes on this site.
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The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.
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They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
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I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.
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I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.
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I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.
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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…
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The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my…
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Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since…
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Entitlement and privelege corrupt.
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Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It…
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Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of…
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Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into…
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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then…
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of…
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into…
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
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