Quotes About Attack On Pearl Harbor

#1. The success of our surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will prove to be the Waterloo of the war to follow. For this reason the Imperial Navy is massing the cream of its strength in ships and planes to assure success.

Chuichi Nagumo

#2. The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#3. Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.

Steve Forbes

#4. The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 completely crippled our Pacific Fleet.

Jerry Costello

#5. Japan surprised almost everyone but Marty with their attack on Pearl Harbor,

Karen Wardamasky Bobrow

#6. If you know how to open doors with just a smile, you must need your teeth capped every six months

Josh Stern

#7. I throw raps that attack like the Japs on Pearl Harbor.
MC's be out like bank robbers,
Fleeing the scene, to be a sole survivor;
DJ ... the getaway driver.

GZA

#8. The wave function of this situation is going to collapse quite soon.

Philip Pullman

#9. At that point Lord Agamemnon, Atreus' son, began shitting whole goats, laughs Orus, speaking loudly enough that several captains turn to frown at us.

Dan Simmons

#10. We, as a nation, cannot wait for the Pearl Harbor of the information age. We must increase our vigilance to tackle this problem before we are hit with a surprise attack.

Fred Thompson

#11. Why not allow patrons to comment on directors' decisions, vote on costume design, listen to dancers' conversations, volunteer to help out in ways beyond just writing a check? They can see themselves as co-producers, not just bystanders.

Chris Elam

#12. History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.

Frank Gaffney

#13. President Roosevelt provoked the Japanese to attack us at Pearl Harbor.

Gore Vidal

#14. I learned at a very early age it's the reaction to the word, that gives it it's power.

The positive and negative affect on a single person is the driving force that created my love of writing.

Steven L. Hiller

#15. While my friends were discussing Pearl Harbor as the country's problem, I took it personally. It dawned on me that the Japanese attack could be my ticket out of high school.

Art Buchwald

#16. When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.

Hideki Tojo

#17. Of course, individuals are responsible for individual actions - the pilots who flew over Pearl Harbor and dropped bombs on those ships did a terrible thing as part of an attack on a military base.

Nicholson Baker

#18. The potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber-attack,

Leon Panetta

#19. An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

Oscar Wilde

#20. Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

Noam Chomsky

#21. The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.

Diane Watson

#22. Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq.

William Safire

#23. Production cutbacks have remained in place in the third quarter and this has helped to further reduce inventory levels worldwide.

Lakshmi Mittal

#24. Love forgives all things. You don't even need to ask.

Lisa Kleypas