The only way to get 520,000 men home - men who had been practically sneaked into Vietnam in the first place - was to make the decision to mine Haiphong Harbor. President [Richard Nixon] had the courage to make that decision, and when the other side starte...
John Wayne
His most offensive criticism: Roger Ebert on Pearl Harbor (2001). He commented on TV that bombs don`t fall like that. Does he actually think we didn`t research every nook and cranny of how armor-piercing bombs fell? He`s watched too many movies. He thinks...
Michael Bay
Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I`m not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be. I was proud when President Nixon [Richard Nixon] ordered the mining of Haiphong Harbor, ...
John Wayne
I got a role in Pearl Harbor within a week of getting to L.A. My head swelled. I spent all my money in two months and then didn`t work for another six. Luckily, Grandma hooked a brother up.
Sean Faris
We need to keep fishing here as much as possible. But we must diversify, look at other activities. Like welcoming recreation and the tourist industry into this harbor.
Richard Young
We have an authentic German oompah band. We`ve also got the samba flamingo band from Southwest Harbor. ... They`ll parade through and welcome people at the gate.
Annette Geddes
Two weeks before the attack on the USS Cole and then again two days before the attack, they saw through their analysis that a major event was going to occur in Yemen. They told the Navy not to bring the Cole into Yemen harbor. It went in and was attacked.
Alan Merten
Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world`s only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.
Steve Forbes
Those heroes, many of whom still lie entombed beneath the waters of Pearl Harbor, embody the very ideals upon which America was founded.
Andreas Rummelt
This is an opportunity to make something extremely practical and logical, which at the same time tries to inspire the imagination in a way that can happen only here, in New York Harbor.
Andy Ringstaff
There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.
Amber Sheldon
The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.
Alan Tucker
Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees.
Amy Coleman
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation`s history and the world`s future.
Alice Maria Gomes
Our military thought that they couldn`t get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong.
Jerry Bruckheimer
On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.
Jack Adams
Nobody who gets hit by a bus has warm feelings about the bus. People who have tangled with David over the years and come out on the wrong end of those fights harbor some bad feelings.
Angel Fuentes
My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather`s house and watched the planes go over.
Sigourney Weaver
My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
Yakov Smirnoff
Mark Twain said `20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn`t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off your bowline. Sail away from the safe harbor.`
Lisa Anderson
A ship is safe in harbor, but that`s not what ships are for.
William Shedd
Source: thinkexist.com
