The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and…

Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of…

— Wally Schirra

“The CIA is behind it all. That’s the conclusion of Mae Brussell—one of America’s foremost assassination experts—a researcher who has collected every pertinent newspaper…

— Mae Brussell

But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there…

— John Sayles

“Groups have powerful self-reinforcing mechanisms at work. These can lead to group polarization—a tendency for members of the group to end up in a…

— James Montier

“I said, "Jesse, don't flatter yourself that I did this for you. I mean, it has been nothing but one giant pain in the…

— Meg Cabot

To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the…

— J. William Fulbright

Mine is, after all, the generation that had come to maturity drinking in the forebodings of the Silones, Koestlers, and Richard Wrights. It had…

— Lorraine Hansberry

“After January 1, 1959, the Castro Revolution changed the way business was done in Cuba. Abruptly, supplies for Cubana were no longer available, most…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba

Politically speaking, Miami-Dade was once a Republican stronghold, thanks in large part to older Cuban voters who became more politically influential following the Bay…

— Patrick Murphy

The Bay of Pigs was an operation the United States endorsed. That was a preventive operation. We were afraid that Castro was going to…

— Robert Dallek

I would just not be surprised if, 10 years from now, there is a Trump golf course at the Bay of Pigs. Just mark…

— Jeffrey Goldberg

In the annals of American blunders, the Bay of Pigs may have been even more feckless, and the invasion of Iraq more costly, but…

— George Will

“Time magazine reported in June 1975, a week before the assassination of Sam “Momo” Giancana in Chicago and a month before the disappearance of…

— Charles Brandt

The disaster at the Bay of Pigs intensified Kennedy's doubts about listening to advisers from the CIA, the Pentagon, or the State Department who…

— Robert Dallek

We have to remember that literally within months after Castro's taking office the planes from Florida were beginning to bomb Cuba. Within a year,…

— Noam Chomsky