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:

    “Now hardly here and there an hackney coach
    Appearing, showed the ruddy morn’s approach.
    Now Betty from her master’s bed had flown,
    And softly stole to discompose her own;
    The slipshod ‘prentice from his master’s door
    Had pared the dirt, and sprinkled round the floor.”
    —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

    “Casting me adrift, 3500 miles from a port of call. You’re sending me to my doom, eh? Well, you’re wrong, Christian! I’ll take this boat as she floats to England if I must. I’ll live to see you—all of you—hanging from the highest yardarms in the British fleet.”
    —Talbot Jennings (1896–1985)