In order to do something you must be something.

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I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

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

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

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I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, FA Crusaders.

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

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

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

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And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.

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

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