America Quote by Robert Dallek

The CIA's official history of the Bay of Pigs operation is filled with dramatic and harrowing details that not only lay bare the strategic,…

— Robert Dallek

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

So the reason that the Bay of Pigs failed was that the original promise made by Eisenhower was not kept by the subsequent Administration.…

— E. Howard Hunt

The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.

— Pat Buchanan

“As a turning point, the Bay of Pigs deserves comparison with 9/11 - a moment that created an opening to pose first-order questions, but…

— Andrew J. Bacevich

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

I go back and think of President Kennedy, who had a military service background, but he comes into the presidency, and he's faced with…

— Stanley A. McChrystal

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

I'm not afraid to say I'm at war with the pigs.

— Fred Hampton

“The Cold War is a psychological game, that is dangerous and counterproductive in the extreme - it does not lead to a benevolent understanding…

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the…

— John le Carre

“Before terminating at the Berlin Wall, the front in the Cold War ran through the hellish jungles of Vietnam to the oases and deceptively…

— Michael B. Oren