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

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

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"In order to do something you must be something."

Identity

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

Law

"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."

Independence

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

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"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."

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"They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf."

Location

"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."

Business

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

Influence

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

Power

"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."

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