If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis…

Of course, nobody does [want another Cuban Missile Crisis].

— Vladimir Putin

But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile crisis, immediate…

— David Kay

Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he…

— Bianca Jagger

The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and…

— Arthur L. Herman

Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of…

— Kitty Kelley

“Al was referring to the time during the Cuban missile crisis that he left his five-months-pregnant wife home alone with no food or access…

— Jon Ronson

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, decisions made by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev could have plunged both countries into thermonuclear…

— Ronald Kessler

“If you read British Foreign Office records from the 1940s, it’s clear they recognised that their day in the sun was over and that…

— Noam Chomsky

I remember very vividly, as a child growing up in England, living through the Cuban Missile Crisis. For a few days, the entire biosphere…

— David Christian

“By the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Eisenhower’s test ban had failed, and the United States and the Soviet Union had both returned…

— Annie Jacobsen

“The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis came well before the current age of AI, yet computers were in use and technology played a critical role…

— James Rickards

This is sort of the Cuban Missile Crisis on steroids, what we are doing to Russia right now, and I don't think this is…

— Jill Stein

President Kennedy didn't negotiate out of the Cuban missile crisis simply because he and Khrushchev got along well. Khrushchev didn't have the cards.

— Colin Powell

The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we…

— Joseph Rotblat

Originally, John Kennedy was going to come speak, and then Lyndon Johnson. Because it was October of '62, neither made it because of the…

— David Maraniss