James Stockdale Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.”

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

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

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

“I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.”

“In order to do something you must be something.”

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

“And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia.”

“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.”

“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 were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film.”