Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

"I do want to point out there is a very, very long distance between a laboratory capacity or capability of doing something and making an instrument, a really efficient, effective instrument of war."

"We are always keeping forces in the Mediterranean, as you well know."

"I have never indulged in that kind of talk."

"I think it is perfectly correct. I am the head of the administration, and I have been shot at before."