The Crisis Years Quotes

“Terror and blackmail are in the order of things in that country, Where money is law, power, and force.”
― Michael R. Beschloss, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963

“I am at the retirement age, and it is highly disagreeable when one finds oneself without an occupation.…”
― Michael R. Beschloss, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963

“guerrillas in Venezuela, Colombia, and Guatemala.”
― Michael R. Beschloss, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963

“he was murdered, to one degree or another, as a result of his public policies.”
― Michael R. Beschloss, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963

“three decades later,”
― Michael R. Beschloss, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963

“Khrushchev said, “A promotion.… An imperialist is a capitalist who interferes in other countries”
― Michael R. Beschloss, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963

“generals were in danger of seizing control of the United States government. He lived in a political culture where such things actually happened.”
― Michael R. Beschloss, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963

“no one will be able even to run.”
― Michael R. Beschloss, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963

“defined.”
― Michael R. Beschloss, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963

“Each time, he had used his inventive brain to remake the circumstances of a seemingly hopeless situation.”
― Michael R. Beschloss, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963

“If East Germany goes, so will Poland and all of Eastern Europe.”
― Michael R. Beschloss, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963

“the largest hydrogen bombs ever produced.”
― Michael R. Beschloss, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963

“Kennedy was also being treated by an eccentric known in Manhattan café society as “Doctor Feelgood”
― Michael R. Beschloss, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963

“You will sink step by step into a bottomless military and political quagmire, however much you spend in men and money.”
― Michael R. Beschloss, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963

“Fleming opined that the Cubans only cared about three things: money, religion, and sex.”
― Michael R. Beschloss, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963

“He was anxious that American action against Cuba not trigger a Soviet action against Berlin. Wishing to intervene without paying the price of intervention, he therefore ordained an operation too small to succeed and too big to hide American involvement.”
― Michael R. Beschloss, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963

“The great problem? “We both look at the same set of facts and see different things.”
― Michael R. Beschloss, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963

“what’s going to screw the Russians ultimately.”
― Michael R. Beschloss, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963