Coast Quote by Xavier Becerra

I think the important thing to remember about the Japanese internment is the situation. We had been attacked. Maybe Roosevelt expected it - I…

— William A. Rusher

If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the…

— Michele Bachmann

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and…

— Franklin D Roosevelt

I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment…

— Anonymous

I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

— Jack Adams

Unlike the Japanese internment, water-boarding was ordered and served up in secret. But it, too, was America's policy, not just Dick Cheney's. Congress was…

— Jacob Weisberg

I studied about the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War and about how the Constitution was written by men, many of…

— Mohsin Hamid

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

— Lane Evans

Our Navy was very largely sunk. And we were at war in no time at all. I share, in retrospect, the distress we all…

— William A. Rusher

My mother's family was among the 120,000 people of Japanese descent on the West Coast who were dispatched to internment camps during World War II.

— Michiko Kakutani

Japan announced that it would not comply with this declaration [ 1956]. Later on, the Soviet Union also declared that the declaration could not…

— Vladimir Putin

The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative, driven by…

— Michael Ignatieff