Thirteen Days quotes

54 total quotes

Adlai Stevenson
General Curtis LeMay
Kenny O'Donnell

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President John F. Kennedy
Robert McNamara
Robert F. Kennedy

View Quote Robert Kennedy: You're talking a sneak attack. How will that make us look? A big country blasting a little country to the stone age. Yeah, we'll be everyone's favourites.
Dean Acheson: Come on Bobby, that's naive. This is the real world. You know that better than anybody.
John McCone, CIA Director: And you weren't so ethically particular when we were talking about options for removing Castro over at CIA.

View Quote We'd look pretty bad shooting up a freighter full of baby food.

View Quote We're heading out to the backyard to take a look for that 'big Red dog'!

View Quote Those goddamn Kennedys are gonna destroy this country if we don't do something about this!

View Quote Jack, I'm as conniving as they come, but a sneak attack is just wrong.

View Quote Robert Kennedy: What the hell is Khrushchev thinking?
President Kennedy: Did you have any indication of this from your KGB pal Bolshakov? I mean any possible warning, sence of motivation?
Robert Kennedy: Complete snow job. And then, we went out and told the country that they weren't puting missles into Cuba.
Kenny O'Donnell: Jesus I... I feel like we discovered the Jap carrier steaming for Pearl Harbor.

View Quote You are in the courtroom of world opinion and you can answer yes or no.

View Quote What's the matter with you? Forget how to open a car door? Jesus, you rich people.

View Quote They look warlike? Jesus Christ, we're lighting off nuclear weapons like its our own private Fourth of July!