Cuba Quote by John F. Kennedy

The Kennedy Administration's public pronouncements on the matter suggested that the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Castro's Cuba would represent an unacceptable strategic…

— John F. Kennedy

Direct aggression against Cuba would mean nuclear war. The Americans speak about such aggression as if they did not know or did not want…

— Che Guevara

Cuba is exporting communism throughout the hemisphere and throughout the world, and has been doing it for decades - and that's something that should…

— Francis X. Suarez

This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable…

— John F. Kennedy

It has been the policy of the United States, Democrats and Republicans, to do everything we could to reduce the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

— Hillary Clinton

I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause…

— Fidel Castro

We need to ensure that our foreign policy towards Cuba incentivizes and makes it easier for there to be a democratic transition. That is…

— Marco Rubio

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

— Robert McNamara

A missile is a missile. It makes no great difference whether you are killed by a missile fired from the Soviet Union or from…

— Elie Abel

“That was the beginning of the Cuban missile crisis—a confrontation between the two giant atomic nations, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., which brought the…

— Robert F. Kennedy

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

If you look at US internal documents, they explain very clearly what the threat of Cuba was. So, back in the early 1960s the…

— Noam Chomsky