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.
The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure. - James Stockdale
The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.
- James Stockdale
A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear. - James Stockdale
A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.
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… - James Stockdale
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…
It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out. - James Stockdale
It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.
I think character is permanent, and issues are transient. - James Stockdale
I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.
Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it. - James Stockdale
Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.
Entitlement and privelege corrupt. - James Stockdale
Entitlement and privelege corrupt.
The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either. - James Stockdale
The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.
Great leaders gain authority by giving it away. - James Stockdale
Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.
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