Top 23 Quotes by James Stockdale

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

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 at the same time, bending you double.

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

Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.

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

The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation.

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.

But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical real life experiences than the whole batch of them put together.

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

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