Swift Boat

Swift Boat may refer to:

  • a Patrol Craft Fast
  • Swift Vets and POWs for Truth, originally named Swift Boat Veterans For Truth
  • Swiftboating, political jargon for a particular form of character assassination as a smear tactic

Famous quotes containing the words swift and/or boat:

    “I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.”
    —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

    “When the boat comes to the bridge, it will go through; when the cart gets to the mountains, there will be a way to get over them.”
    —Chinese proverb.