James Stockdale Quotes

The question for politicians here is fundamental: You can read the polls, or you can change the polls. Stand up on the things you believe in.

I don't think it should matter to the American people what color skin is on their president. What should matter is the content of their character.

I believe Donald Trump is a good man. He did everything wrong as a candidate, and he won, and I don't understand it. Other than I think God put him there.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Election results and winning an election is not all about winning the next election or planning to win the next election.

All political parties, if they are to be successful, have to be broad churches.

I want to emphasize that character in our leaders does matter.

Republicans need to unite to succeed.

I don't think circumstances change who you are as a person. I don't believe they change your values - unless you willingly would like them to.

We say only the BJP can be the alternative force in Tamil Nadu. Our party is providing good governance in many States in the country and we are confident of repeating this success in Tamil Nadu also.

If you're a good person, that's all that really matters.

I've not been a decisively re-elected city councilor and top vote-getter three times because I haven't done the work and because I don't work hard.

We've shown Canadians that, when we have a strong message and when we stick to our principles, Conservatives can win anywhere.

Me being the best in the world, it doesn't mean that much to me if I'm not a good person at the end of the day, if I'm not setting a good example for other people to be better to each other.

People don't get angry at you for shock value. People get angry at you when you affect something that is at their core, whether it be guns or religion or whatever. Their belief system.

I still want to hold on to my beliefs, and as long as I have that, I won't stray too far from politics.

When people speak of BJP being an 'election machine,' it is actually development and progress that is BJP's electoral machine.

I feel the Conservatives are doing really well both in attracting votes from British Indians and also having successful British Indians in the party.

During elections, every party has a different strategy and issues.

Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.

Biblical convictions are essential for spiritual growth and maturity. What is ironic today is that people often have strong convictions about weak issues (football, fashion, etc.) while having weak convictions about major issues (what is right and what is wrong).

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else.

I don't think that my particular religious convictions should be held against me in this campaign any more than the Prime Minister's lack of convictions should be held against her.

Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.

There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.