Ross Perot
Ross Perot
Henry Ross Perot, known as Ross Perot, is an American businessman best known for being an independent presidential candidate in 1992 and the Reform party presidential candidate in 1996. Perot founded Electronic Data Systemsin 1962, sold the company to General Motors in 1984, and founded Perot Systems in 1988...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth27 June 1930
CityTexarkana, TX
CountryUnited States of America
If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.
The other parties have a fortune to spend. They have almost $100 million under federal election laws. We get only $29 million.
Should that person be allowed to lie publicly? Let's promise ourselves we're never going to have a candidate like that,
Should a person who's the most powerful person in the world conduct his personal life in such a way that would be a poor example to our children?
I think it's plain that the president should resign and spare the country the agony of impeachment and removal proceedings,
We've been very lucky today, ... We've had a tremendous run-up in the stock ... (but) we're in it for the long haul.
We have two horses in the race, one of them is going to win,
You'll see it. Sooner or later the American people will wake up. All they have heard is, 'Let's forgive, let's forgive. The Bible tells us to forgive.' It's the silliest stuff I have ever heard on television. That's why I have finally spoken out.
Trevor's got 2,000 people trapped in a hospital in downtown New Orleans, ... We need to figure out how to help them and get those people out.
There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.
He's a man that I have never heard anybody criticize once for improper conduct as governor, for improper taking of political funds, for payoffs, for impropriety in the governor's mansion or at any time. And that is a big state. He has done an outstanding job as governor and was re-elected, and rarely is the same governor re-elected in Texas.
In this country, if you're eccentric and a billionaire you either kill a wrestler or run for president.
As long as I am helpful to the organization, I am certainly happy to help and participate in any constructive way, ... The last thing I want is all of the things I see in the paper day in and day out about catfights and this and that and the other that have noting to do with fact but make great fiction.