Island Quote by Rick Santelli

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

The reality here is, these are people that campaign for votes, and nobody wants to be associated with pictures that would certainly exist, even…

— Rush Limbaugh

I would like to see more of a democratic opening on the island of Cuba, things like, I don't know, free press, stop putting…

— Marco Rubio

We see a missile here, a bomb there - looks good on CNN. This is nonsense. This is not a strategy of a serious…

— Ted Cruz

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

— Vladimir Putin

It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba as an attack by the Soviet Union on…

— John F. Kennedy

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

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

“On Thursday, February 19, 2015, two months after the United States and Cuba announced a willingness to re-establish normal diplomacy, after over 5 decades…

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

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

Those [Anti-Cubans] who attack us [Cubans] don't represent more than a fraction of 1 percent. ... You [the foreign news media] have helped create them.

— Fidel Castro

Both the President and Mr Gorbachev have said that they want to see a world without nuclear weapons. I cannot see a world without…

— Margaret Thatcher