Perot Quotations

You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn't have the Internet.

Ross Perot came and visited Apple several times and visited the Macintosh factory. Ross was a systems thinker.

Ralph Reed is deeply ambitious and always was so. There was a time when he... in one of my interviews, he said he pondered running the Ross Perot campaign, and he wasn't sure he wanted to do the Christian Right thing; he was worried that it boxed him into a corner.

The only hard-and-fast rules a Perot must operate under are getting a sound education; being honest and ethical in our business dealings; treating the people who work for us with respect and dignity; and, finally, a Perot cannot be afraid to take risks when appropriate.

He's different than Perot and Smale because he does know the business and he's been close to it for a long, long time. Jerry is a disciplined guy. His intent is not to blow the place up.

When Clinton was elected, a lot of people on the right said it was a fluke, that it wouldn't have happened if Perot hadn't been there. So the right was offended at Clinton's election, because they didn't think it was fair - meaning the ideological right had a reason to be upset, and they expressed what they were upset about.

The only thing they have got is about eight or 10 people in positions of power and influence who are former Perot folks who simply want to derail our nomination, ... Fox News Sunday.

Bill Clinton's 1992 convention is the most successful convention on record. Until that convention, Bill Clinton was running behind. Not only was he running behind, he was running third going into the Democratic convention in 1992. Perot was first, Bush was second, and Clinton seemed hopeless. The convention turned everything around,

Ross Perot was a rich joke, ... I am a very poor man but serious. We are in serious business.

Although (IBM) CEO Gerstner said in May he has no concerns about services, we do. EDS, SCS, and Perot have each suffered recently. Contract signings appear solid, but the time between outsourcing order and implementation may be increasing in the mature U.S.

It's a battleground state for them. Bradley went there two or three times for Clinton in 1996. There are a lot of Perot voters up there who Bradley could appeal to.

It wasn't really part of the program in the Perot family. Rebellion was not an option.

But it cuts both ways. Ross Perot was the spoiler, and you didn't hear anyone complaining about that.

I do not believe Robin Moore and Ross Perot have any competition for being the two greatest supporters in America today for our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, but especially for our special operations community, ... We are very fortunate and blessed to have Robin and Helen Moore to move into our great community of Hopkinsville.

There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.