If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes

Henry Ross Perot (June 27, 1930 - ) offered Americans a folksy, commonsensical alternative in the 1992 presidential election to the colorless Republican nominee, President George H.W. Bush, and the increasingly scandal-ridden Democratic nominee, Arkansas governor Bill Clinton.

If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?

A former IBM salesman, Perot's business acumen and dogged determination propelled a career marked by unparalleled success. Fortune magazine dubbed Perot the "fastest, richest Texan" in 1968.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

Perot opposed US involvement in the first Gulf War and subsequently began his own run for the presidency. Though as a Washington outsider-3rd party candidate his chances seemed slim, Perot made great strides with his United We Stand America grass-roots campaign organization. At one point, polls had Perot in the lead with almost 40 percent of the vote.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

He would go on to win 19% of the popular vote, the best showing of a 3rd party candidate since 1912.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.