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

Great leaders gain authority by giving it away..

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

Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted com….

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 schoo….

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

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….

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient..

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….

Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where ….

It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out..

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 ca….

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear..

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 the first air ….

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 strong….

I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia an….

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

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….

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

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

Entitlement and privelege corrupt..