Thirteen Days
Release: December 25, 2000

Thirteen Days is a 2000 American historical political thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson. It dramatizes the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, seen from the perspective of the US political leadership. Kevin Costner stars as top White House assistant Kenneth P. O'Donnell, with Bruce Greenwood featured as President John F. Kennedy, Steven Culp as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and Dylan Baker as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.

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Adlai Stevenson: "You are in the courtroom of world opinion and you can answer yes or no."
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Dean Acheson: "Let's hope appeasement doesn't run in families. I fear weakness does."
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President Kennedy: "I'll tell you one thing, Kenny. Those brass hats have one big advantage. That is, if we do what they want us to do, there's none of us gonna be alive to tell them they were wrong."
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Robert Kennedy: "We've got a bunch of smart guys. We lock 'em in a room and kick 'em in the ass until they come up with some solutions... I'll do it."
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Dean Acheson: "Gentlemen, for the last fifteen years, I've fought at this table alongside your predecessors in the struggle against the Soviet. Now I do not wish to seem melodramatic, but I do wish to impress upon you a lesson I learned with bitter tears and great sacrifice. The Soviet understands only one language: action. Respects only one word: force."
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General Curtis LeMay: "The 'big Red dog' is diggin' in our backyard, and we are justified in shooting him!"
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General Cutris Lee May: "Those goddamn Kennedys are gonna destroy this country if we don't do something about this!"
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Kenny O'Donnell: "They look warlike? Jesus Christ, we're lighting off nuclear weapons like its our own private Fourth of July!"
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Robert McNamara: "We're heading out to the backyard to take a look for that 'big Red dog'!"
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President Kennedy: "Bobby, you gotta go in there and you gotta make them understand... that we have to have an answer tomorrow... because Monday, we go to war."
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Robert Kennedy: "We gave up so much to get here... I don't know; sometimes I think, "What the hell did we do it for?""
President Kennedy: "Listen, you tell 'em those chains of command end at one place: *me*."
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Kenny: "The sun came up. Every day the sun comes up says something about us."
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Prsident Kennedy: "What kind of peace do we seek? am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living. Not merely peace in our time but peace for all time. Our problems are manmade - therefore, they can be solved by man. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."
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Dobrynyn: "You're a good man; your brother is a good man. I assure you there are other good men. Let us hope the will of good men is enough to counter the terrible strength of this thing that was put in motion."
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Robert McNamara: "This is not a blockade. This is language. A new vocabulary, the likes of which the world has never seen! This is President Kennedy communicating with Secretary Khrushchev!"
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Kenny: "If the sun comes up tomorrow, it is only because of men of good will. And that's - that's all there is between us and the devil."
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