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James Bond Stockdale (December 23, 1923 – July 5, 2005) was a United States Navy vice admiral and aviator awarded the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War, during which he was a prisoner of war for over seven years.

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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 back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character.

Back, Character, Factor, Idea, Ideas, Issues

I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came.

Attention, Boss, Came, Mean, Should Have

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.

Helpless, Mean Girls, Paper, Papers, Yeah

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

Character, Issues, Permanent, Thinking

Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.

Dog, Dying, Like, Mean, Right, Thing

Entitlement and privelege corrupt.

Character, Corrupt, Entitlement, Privelege

The worst thing that can happen is death and that's not the worst thing in the world either.

Happens, Thing, World, Worst

The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.

Challenge, Education, Failure, Person, Success

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

Crusaders, Fighter, Officer, Officers, Squadron

Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.

Authority, Gain, Gains, Giving, Leader

Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots

Becoming, Kings, Larry, President, Telephones

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

Done, Felt, Grown, Men, Should Have

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

Estimation, Guy, Holds, Market, Stock, Things

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

Conversation, Perot, Politics, Ross, Single Life

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