Quotes About Bay Of Pigs Invasion

#1. To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the United States is constantly denouncing the Soviet Union in the United Nations and elsewhere. This point will not be lost on the rest of the world, nor on our own consciences.

J. William Fulbright

#2. But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didn't have to pay, and all those extras; we didn't have to pay them.

John Sayles

#3. Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam to more than 16,000.

Kitty Kelley

#4. In the annals of American blunders, the Bay of Pigs may have been even more feckless, and the invasion of Iraq more costly, but we cannot yet calculate the cost of teaching Iran and others, by our role in the casual overthrow of Moammar Gaddafi, the peril of not having nuclear weapons.

George Will

#5. High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

James Wolcott

#6. You guys own the Muppets, and you're just kind of sitting on 'em. I really love the Muppets, and I think I know how to bring the franchise back.

Jason Segel

#7. I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

#8. But there is this peculiarity about heat: it appears to affect only those that think of it.

R.K. Narayan

#9. The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.

Samuel Johnson

#10. The whole sky was the colour of her skin.

Rainbow Rowell

#11. I love being with you. When we're not together, i wish we were

Sylvia Day

#12. Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

#13. Energise your desires utilising your heart energy to create the things that you wish for in your life.

Steven Redhead

#14. Is God a man or a woman?
God could be an armadillo. I have no idea.

Sherman Alexie

#15. Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.

Patricia Briggs

#16. So the reason that the Bay of Pigs failed was that the original promise made by Eisenhower was not kept by the subsequent Administration. It allowed hostile air to wipe out the approaching invasion force.

E. Howard Hunt

#17. You're so dehydrated I can hear you blink.

Lori Lansens

#18. You just can't win. Men have very recent land mines in their heads. Women have recorded conversations and photographs in their heads from 15 years ago.

Denis Leary