25 result(s) for Bay Of Pigs Quotes.
"Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan."
"The CIA's clandestine services are still all too often used to play cops and robbers."
"It is a lonely thing to be President in these hours of decisions."
"I am the responsible officer of the Government."
"We intend to profit from this lesson. We are sobered by it."
"Our security is not merely in the strength of our arms, though even our arms are strong. Our security is in the strength of our convictions."
"I have even thought of transferring the entire operation to the Department of Defense."
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"I don't think that we can advertise that for the last several years we've been preparing a force to invade Cuba."
"I was in a state of shock for at least two weeks."
"This is a terrible failure. I'm going to have to resign."
"The President asked me if I thought we should cancel the mission. I said no. I thought we should go ahead."
"We were told time after time that there was a good chance that the Cuban army would not fight, but this was wishful thinking."
"The whole affair was a debacle. A complete and utter failure."
"It was close to perfect, but not quite."
"I do not know how it could have been worse."
"The great danger is that the success of the Soviet Union is to be measured by its military successes rather than any successes in meeting the needs of its people."
"The United States cannot sit idly by while a Soviet satellite is established within ninety miles of its shores."
"The Bay of Pigs was a black eye. A major defeat."
"The lesson of the Bay of Pigs is that the United States should not attempt to impose its will on other nations by force."
"The fiasco at the Bay of Pigs is a symbol of the failure of American foreign policy."
"The Bay of Pigs invasion was a monument to Cold War hubris."
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"It was assumed that Castro's army was not capable of putting up a serious fight."
"In retrospect, the Bay of Pigs operation seems almost farcical."
"For many Cuban exiles, the failure at the Bay of Pigs was a deep betrayal."
"The Bay of Pigs demonstrated just how difficult it is for the United States to intervene successfully in the internal affairs of other countries."
