Quotes about Vietnam

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. Votes: 8

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service. Votes: 8

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy. Votes: 8

I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin. Votes: 8

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods. Votes: 7

Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war. Votes: 7

Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie. Votes: 7

All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it. Votes: 7

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place. Votes: 6

Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that. Votes: 6

Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America. Votes: 6

It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate, Votes: 6

If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves. Votes: 6

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. Votes: 6

I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable. Votes: 6

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam. Votes: 6

How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? Votes: 6

Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam. These events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the world nor of America's leadership in the world. Votes: 6

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it. Votes: 6

This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking. It is a war thrust upon us and we cannot yield to tyranny. Votes: 6

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas. Votes: 6

I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. Votes: 6

Kerry is saying that Bush never showed up for his national guard duty ... and now Bush is on the attack. He's accusing John Kerry of ducking time in the national guard by hiding out in the jungles of Vietnam. Votes: 6

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart. Votes: 5

Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War. Votes: 4

I'd rather go to Vietnam than get married. Votes: 4

We should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age. Votes: 4

The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed. Votes: 4

Vietnam was worse than immoral - it was a mistake. Votes: 4

We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Votes: 4

I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam. Votes: 4

If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam. Votes: 4

When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner. Votes: 4

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it. Votes: 4

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas. Votes: 4

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans. Votes: 4

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation. Votes: 4

You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate. Votes: 4

The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere. Votes: 4

Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that. Votes: 4

Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters. Votes: 4

I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they're brothers and sisters, man. They're brothers and sisters and it's a sight for elation. Votes: 4

Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war. Votes: 4

My father had gone to Vietnam. Votes: 3

Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America. Votes: 3

South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon. Votes: 3

I was too important to go to Vietnam. Votes: 3

Iraq was a war of choice, like Vietnam. Votes: 3

Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam. Votes: 3

The Vietnam war was fought over portion size. Votes: 3

Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position. Votes: 3

Vietnam is the Liberals' favorite was because America lost Votes: 3

We tried to change Vietnam. Instead, Vietnam changed us. Votes: 3

Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days. Votes: 3

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake. Votes: 3

No one ever comes back from Vietnam. Not really. Votes: 3

My father is American and deserted the Vietnam War. Votes: 3

Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s. Votes: 3

My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam. Votes: 3

John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there. Votes: 3

You think Vietnam was bad? Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo. Votes: 3

After Vietnam, the Democrats became fundamentally the anti-military as a party. Votes: 3

I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam. Votes: 3

To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation. Votes: 3

Enough is enough. This is how we get started in Vietnam. Votes: 3

We ended the war in Vietnam, and brought the troops home. Votes: 3

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead. Votes: 3

I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War. Votes: 3

If John McCain were really a war hero he would've won Vietnam. Votes: 3

It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam. Votes: 3

There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication. Votes: 3

There are some similarities, of course (between Iraq and Vietnam). Death is terrible. Votes: 3

I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam. Votes: 3

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam. Votes: 3

God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam. Votes: 3

The only important lesson from the Vietnam War is this: Democrats lose wars. Votes: 3

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam. Votes: 3

My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. Votes: 3

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam. Votes: 3

Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself. Votes: 3

Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I've never heard of a clean one. Votes: 3

It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war. Votes: 3

The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq." Votes: 3

I am shocked that we seemed to have learned nothing, absolutely nothing, from Vietnam. Votes: 3

The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War. Votes: 3

The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq. Votes: 3

The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it. Votes: 3

World War II was just as dirty and brutal as Vietnam, just as confusing. Votes: 3

I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam. Votes: 3

I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate. Votes: 3

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there. Votes: 3

I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years. Votes: 3

Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War. Votes: 3

Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from. Votes: 3

Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War) Votes: 3

Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time. Votes: 3

In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising. Votes: 3

A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys. Votes: 3

Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam. Votes: 3

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements. Votes: 3

This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam. Votes: 3

Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along. Votes: 3

Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq. Votes: 3

I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there. Votes: 3

If I had that kind of money, I wouldn't come to Vietnam, I'd send for it. Votes: 3

Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch. Votes: 3

McCain fought in Vietnam - I think that he has enough civilian blood on his hands. Votes: 3

I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous. Votes: 3

It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam. Votes: 3

From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism. Votes: 3

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam. Votes: 3

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam." Votes: 3

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam. Votes: 3

These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam. Votes: 3

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars. Votes: 3

The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice. Votes: 3

The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America. Votes: 3

By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam. Votes: 3

Obama avoided the Vietnam draft with a letter from his family doctor diagnosing him as medically eight. Votes: 3

I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war. Votes: 3

The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam. Votes: 3

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies. Votes: 3

How do you know there's not a door to heaven in the sky between Malaysia and Vietnam? Votes: 3

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else. Votes: 3

A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere. Votes: 3

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it. Votes: 3

I left the Democratic Party basically on issues of national security during the end of the Vietnam War. Votes: 3

Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters. Votes: 3

We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do. Votes: 3

There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam. Votes: 3

The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names. Votes: 3

Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate. Votes: 3

I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart. Votes: 3

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war. Votes: 3

We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children. Votes: 3

You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam. Votes: 3

I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam. Votes: 3

One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security. Votes: 3

In his life, Donald Trump's had a great track record of failure, bankruptcies, running from Vietnam, everything like that. Votes: 3

The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation. Votes: 3

Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam. Votes: 3

The lessons I learned in Vietnam and in the NFL reinforced one another: teamwork, sacrifice, responsibility, accountability, and leadership. Votes: 3

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that. Votes: 3

I messed up on the Vietnam Special, because I gave it to civilians? Only military men can handle that. Votes: 3

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there. Votes: 3

If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea. Votes: 3

Being in Vietnam and being around a major story of the time was always a great shot of adrenaline. Votes: 3

In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter. Votes: 3

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle. Votes: 3

If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco. Votes: 3

If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does. Votes: 3

I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership. Votes: 3

Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam. Votes: 3

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail. Votes: 3

If my name were Nubby Blues, I wouldn't be a jazz musician, I'd be a disabled Vietnam vet on welfare. Votes: 3

I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war. Votes: 3

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail Votes: 3

With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war. Votes: 3

You really had to learn to protect yourself from all Gooks in Vietnam, or else you would end up dead. Votes: 3

Ho Chi Minh and Vietnam were perfect for Lyndon Johnson: 220 million against 18 million, water buffalo and all. No risk, really. Votes: 3

Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them. Votes: 3

Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam. Votes: 3

I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art. Votes: 3

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam. Votes: 3

When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won. Votes: 3

After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate. Votes: 3

When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves. Votes: 3

I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam. Votes: 3

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind Votes: 3

Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War. Votes: 3

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes. Votes: 3

Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War." Votes: 3

The United States must keep a low profile in Vietnam so we can negotiate its neutralization like we did in Laos . Votes: 3

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words. Votes: 3

We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans. Votes: 3

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there. Votes: 3

I'm old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam. Votes: 3

As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it. Votes: 3

I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago. Votes: 3

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. Votes: 3

Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress? Votes: 3

In the winter of 1973, the American POWs held captive in Vietnam were released according to the terms of the Paris Peace Accords. Votes: 3

[People] are tired of being ripped off by every single country that does business with us. Whether it's China, Japan, Mexico, Vietnam. Votes: 3

Heroes? Vietnam Vets are heroes. The guys who tried to rescuse our hostages in Iran are heroes. I'm just a hockey player. Votes: 3

America does not like losers. Look how we treated those soldiers who came back from Vietnam. Because they lost. America likes winners. Votes: 3

I have a few memories of being young here in the United States, but almost no recollections of being young in Vietnam. Votes: 3

We learned some bad things, and the Vietnam War led to some bad conclusions. We're not the greatest generation, that's for sure. Votes: 3

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone. Votes: 3

I have to admit it that the large quantity of US money poured into Vietnam provoked ii...a lot of bad habits. Votes: 3

When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good. Votes: 3

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone. Votes: 3

Vietnam, really more accurately, Laos, was almost after Berlin the top problem at the beginning of the Kennedy Administration in '61, foreign problem. Votes: 3

We do not need more division. We certainly do not need something as complex and emotional as Vietnam reduced to simple campaign rhetoric. Votes: 3

During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions. Votes: 3

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock. Votes: 3

I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement. Votes: 3

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world. Votes: 3

The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either. Votes: 3

Experience helped Richard Nixon, but it didn't save him, and it certainly wasn't a blanket endorsement. He blundered terribly in dealing with Vietnam. Votes: 3

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War) Votes: 3

President Bush is not fazed by other candidates' war records. He said, I may have not fought in Vietnam, but I created one. Votes: 3

You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict Votes: 3

On my discharge, I had the challenge of putting my life back together but Vietnam stuck in the inner recesses of my mind. Votes: 3

The U.S. dropped more high explosives on Vietnam than the Allies used on Germany and Japan together in the Second World War. Votes: 3

How, then, can the feds justify favoring sons of Hispanics over sons of white Americans who fought in World War II or Vietnam? Votes: 3

Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened. Votes: 3

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war. Votes: 3

I dropped out in '64. And I came back to Michigan, in '65. In 1965, when I came back I had never heard of Vietnam. Votes: 3

The race for the White House should be about leadership, and leadership requires that one help heal the wounds of Vietnam, not reopen them. Votes: 3

We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified them. Votes: 3

George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam. Votes: 3

So now it turns out that Thomas Jefferson was having sex with Sally Hemings while serving in the 101st Airborne during the Vietnam War. Votes: 3

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror. Votes: 3

Under Malcolm Fraser's Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any great fuss. Votes: 3

You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality. Votes: 3

Realistically speaking, Ayn Rand should not have opposed the antidraft movement and supported the Vietnam War effort - in effect, she supported military conscription. Votes: 3

By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they? Votes: 3

Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they didn't want. Votes: 3

I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason. Votes: 3

I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it. Votes: 3

As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve. Votes: 3

Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World. Votes: 3

I would say healthcare in Vietnam is so-so. There are several international clinics that are good but expensive and the care offered is limited. Votes: 3

Perhaps the thing that most got to me was the ide - the whole thing about lying, and how pervasive lying about Vietnam was. Votes: 3

Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's. Votes: 3

I think Americans understand that in Afghanistan, unlike in Iraq and Vietnam, we are fighting an enemy allied with the people who attacked us on 9/11. Votes: 3

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh. Votes: 3

My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience. Votes: 3

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that. Votes: 3

It would be good for the workers in Vietnam even as it helps make sure that they're not undercutting competition here in the United States. Votes: 3

For years, Mount Holyoke professor Joseph 'Full Metal Jacket' Ellis had been regaling students, interviewers and friends with gripping stories of his service in Vietnam. Votes: 3

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage. Votes: 3

After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born at the same moment. Votes: 3

In April 1975 I was born and the Vietnam War ended. I could not let any American die in war before seeing an episode of Scrubs. Votes: 3

Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays. Votes: 3

The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam. Votes: 3

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place. Votes: 3

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding. Votes: 3

But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics. Votes: 3

I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on for centuries perpetuating itself. Votes: 3

Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction. Votes: 3

It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons. Votes: 3

Matterhorn is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again. Votes: 3

Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam. Votes: 3

By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years. Votes: 3

I'm very moved to be here today, ... Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We need to work much harder. Votes: 3

They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater and that's what happened. Votes: 3

John Kerry gave the enemy for free what I and many of my comrades in North Vietnam in the prison camps took torture to avoid saying. Votes: 3

Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything. Votes: 3

Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again. Votes: 3

Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam. Votes: 3

Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job. Votes: 3

In post-Vietnam, post-Watergate America, skeptical voters demand full disclosure of everything from candidates' finances to their medical records, and spin-savvy accounts of backstage machinations dominate political coverage. Votes: 3

What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties. Votes: 3

The genius of America's endless war machine is that, learning from the unpleasantness of the Vietnam war protests, it has rendered the costs of war largely invisible. Votes: 3

What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties. Votes: 3

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do. Votes: 3

Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder. Votes: 3

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do Votes: 3

Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time. Votes: 3

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam. Votes: 3

[Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly make friends with the natives. Votes: 3

Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency. Votes: 3

The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition. Votes: 3

Newsman are the ones who - without them we don't have a civil rights movement, we don't have a women's movement, we don't have a Vietnam movement. Votes: 3

Donald Trump didn't go to Vietnam. He said he had a medical problem. He got a medical deferment. Now his doctor says he's the healthiest man alive. Votes: 3

In what is perhaps the strangest turn in the President's efforts to rally support, he agreed that Iraq is just like Vietnam, but in a good way. Votes: 3

The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism. Votes: 3

The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism. Votes: 3

My view of Bradley Manning is that he's a very courageous young man who... did what I didn't have the guts to do during the Vietnam war. Votes: 3

I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the U.S. military. Votes: 3

I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand. Votes: 3

We certainly see opportunities in Vietnam for talented people to have jobs in the IT sector, including the improvement of the efficiency of the economy and the government. Votes: 3

Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified. Votes: 3

Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and criticizing J.F.K. Votes: 3

Phil Hicks was the guy that was in the ROTC, that was going to go into the Vietnam War and thought that was the responsibility of the citizen. Votes: 3

Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to remember otherwise. Votes: 3

I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam. Votes: 3

I know this: that in your own hearts and your own souls, you are as much responsible for the Vietnam War as I am for killing these people. Votes: 3

I saw a large, red dried swath that I immediately identified clearly as blood. I covered the war in Vietnam. I saw a lot of it [blood] there. Votes: 3

We [Vietnam] happen to offer good investment opportunities for foreigners, although this is not a one-way street. Both we and the foreign investors benefit greatly as a result. Votes: 3

I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast. Votes: 3

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them. Votes: 3

It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it. Votes: 3

I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you can still do it in Vietnam. Votes: 3

I said to the president's wife, Vietnam is the main reason we are having trouble with the youth of America. It is a war without explanation or reason. Votes: 3

In the sixties, during the Vietnam war, when anarchists and pacifists and socialists, Democrats and Republicans, decent-hearted Americans, all recoiled with horror at the bloodbath, we came together. Votes: 3

[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the Democrats gave up, Votes: 3

I flew in combat in Vietnam. I got shot at, I shot back, I got shot down. Compared to this flight, I felt a lot safer in combat. Votes: 3

In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War. Votes: 3

Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says "Bad war, good soldier." Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior. Votes: 3

The whole thing about whether you smoke marijuana or not is so ridiculous. That and whether you protested the Vietnam War. Give me a break. Especially the marijuana thing. Votes: 3

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply. Votes: 3

There are several places in Vietnam where they're teaching computer science from second grade in class, so they don't have a gender divide because everybody is expected to program. Votes: 3

In all, the future secretary of defense and wartime vice president[, Dick Cheney,] would receive five deferments during the Vietnam War, protecting him from service during his draft-eligible years. Votes: 3

I wouldn't characterize anybody who fought in Vietnam as a war hero. In 23 bombing sorties, there must have been civilians that were killed and there's no heroism to that. Votes: 3

A lot of people have warned President Clinton that Bosnia will turn into another Vietnam, which would be embarrassing for him because he'll have to go back to college. Votes: 3

Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention of the Geneva Protocol. Votes: 3

There was that last blast of Westerns that came out in the Seventies, those Vietnam/Watergate Westerns where everything was about demystification. And I like that about those movies. Votes: 3

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence. Votes: 3

I want to make sure that the Coast Guard people in Vietnam know that I am hearing about them often and that I am pleased with what I hear. Votes: 3

In America, it is reported by some sources that there were more domestic violence related murders in the home than the 58,000 Americans soldiers killed in the entire Vietnam War Votes: 3

Prior art is as effective as US soldiers in Iraq: They control the ground they stand on, and nothing more. I used to say Vietnam, but, well, you know... Votes: 3

I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam. Votes: 3

I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode. Votes: 3

After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really. Votes: 3

Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong. Votes: 3

In a way I almost feel like the election of Donald Trump has inspired Democrats and progressives and punk rockers in a way that hasn't been seen since Vietnam. Votes: 3

The message of Vietnam is not that Americans will not take casualties; it is that the American people do not want the lives of their sons and daughters wasted. Votes: 3

My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic. Votes: 3

If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the hopes of men the world over. Votes: 3

The boys that were running away from America because they didn't want to get involved with the Vietnam War had come to me. They would tell me how they felt. Votes: 3

The consequences of President Johnsons campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself. Votes: 3

[John F. Kennedy] kept a diary and in the White House dictated his thoughts. He felt real guilt at the killing of [Ngo Dinh] Diem, the leader of South Vietnam. Votes: 3

This (Vietnam) was a land of rebellious barons. It was like Europe in the Middle Ages. But what were the Americans doing here? Columbus had not yet discovered their country. Votes: 3

More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan. Votes: 3

Vietnam is unique of all the countries in the world, I believe, in having the longest continuous struggle against foreign aggression of any country that has retained its national identity. Votes: 3

The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself. Votes: 3

But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20. Votes: 3

In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China. Votes: 3

By 1973, John Kerry had already accused American soldiers of committing war crimes in Vietnam, thrown someone else's medals to the ground in an anti-war demonstration, and married his first heiress. Votes: 3

Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret. Votes: 3

Lyndon B. Johnson thought he'd have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas - for four Christmases in a row (he never shifted course, and lost his presidency for it). Votes: 3

Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet. Votes: 3

So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored. Votes: 3

Vietnam remains an underdeveloped economy with a high poverty incidence, ... party, people and army will continue to stand united and ... turn Vietnam into a developed country in the coming decades. Votes: 3

Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal. Votes: 3

The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans. Votes: 3

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations. Votes: 3

This nation should be less worried about putting the Vietnam syndrome behind us than restarting the World War II victory syndrome that resulted in the Vietnam syndrome in the first place. Votes: 3

Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time. Votes: 3

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. Votes: 3

In China, Vietnam, Russia and several former Soviet states, the dominant social networks are run by local companies whose relationship with the government actually constrains the empowering potential of social networks. Votes: 3

The hardest thing for me in Vietnam wasn't seeing the wounded and dead. It was watching the big transport jets come in, bringing loads of fresh new boys for the war. Votes: 3

People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church. Votes: 3

A generation ago, American war planners made the mistake of believing that short-term Communist sympathies would unite China and Vietnam. We were wrong, and it tragically misshaped our policy in Vietnam. Votes: 3

He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam. Votes: 3

Don't underlook the Sixties; we started eating more vegetables, respecting women, and we shut down Vietnam. We did a lot of good stuff. But it shouldn't shut you down from the moment. Votes: 3

I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone. Votes: 3

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War. Votes: 3

In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law. Votes: 3

Ninety-five percent of women's experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive... women didn't go to Vietnam and blow things up. They are not Rambo. Votes: 3

We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population. Votes: 3

It was a tough press conference for President Bush. He spent the first ten minutes trying to pronounce Fallujah. ... Bush insisted that Iraq is not Vietnam. Of course not, he avoided Vietnam. Votes: 3

The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate. Votes: 3

When I visited Vietnam for Oxfam, the thing that really struck me was how the local farmers had to prepare to evacuate or climb to their mezzanines with their valuable family possessions. Votes: 3

In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law. Votes: 3

Some men are searching for the Holy Grail, but there ain't nothing sweeter than riding the rail. Pregnant women and Vietnam vets, beggin on the freeway, bout as hard as it gets. Votes: 3

The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that. Votes: 3

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. Votes: 3

We want to bring better products to Vietnam. My hope is through changes in lifestyle and the products we consume, it will affect the people and change the way they are thinking. Votes: 3

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam. Votes: 3

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights. Votes: 3

I would like to ask a question. Would this sort of war or savage bombing which has taken place in Vietnam have been tolerated for so long, had the people been European? Votes: 3

When you have a democratically elected president of Iran you don't topple him for the Shah. You don't help topple Arbenz in Guatemala. You don't do what we did in Vietnam, etc. Votes: 3

I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam. Votes: 3

I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings. Votes: 3

During the Democratic presidential debate Howard Dean started off by apologizing to the crowd for having a cold. Then John Kerry apologized for once having a cold while serving his country in Vietnam. Votes: 3

I'm a Vietnam veteran. I was here when there was no public support, not just for the effort in Vietnam, for the mission in Vietnam, but for our men and women in uniform. Votes: 3

During the Vietnam era, more than 30,000 draft dodgers and deserters sought harbor in cities like Montreal and Toronto, where public opposition to the war was strong and most residents didn't question their motives. Votes: 3

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was. Votes: 3

I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was just lost after that war. As were many Americans. Votes: 3

Latin American countries are part of the West and that it is reasonable to expect a certain degree of openness in their societies that we do not demand of, say, China or Vietnam. Votes: 3

Did you know that the percentage of young people in the crucial 'youthquake' age bracket of 15 to 24 was higher in 1973 than in 1967 ? Therefore it was glam rock that ended the war in Vietnam. Votes: 3

With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story. Votes: 3

Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says. Votes: 3

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business. Votes: 3

The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived. Votes: 3

Canada used to be...one of our most...most loyal friends, and vice versa. I mean, Canada sent troops to Vietnam. Was Vietnam less containable and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein? Votes: 3

I think matching up Vietnam vets with these Iraqi vets would be a really great thing. When soldiers say only other soldiers can understand, that's what they're talking about: what it means to kill. Votes: 3

I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way. Votes: 3

I'm working on this fashion line that's all inspired by Vietnam. I'm Vietnamese so a lot of the clothes are inspired by Vietnamese culture, and I'm trying to mix that with the streetwear style. Votes: 3

I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt as if it was going to trickle down to me. Votes: 3

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century. Votes: 3

Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed. Votes: 3

I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation. Votes: 3

'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed. Votes: 3

It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail. Votes: 3

Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam to more than 16,000. Votes: 3

Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the other. All of that has disappeared thanks to Lyndon Johnson. Votes: 3

The thing is that where I want to go isn't necessarily tied to what's going on there politically, but I think Vietnam is a really beautiful country. I think Thailand is also really beautiful. Votes: 3

I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then. Votes: 3

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century." Votes: 3

I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way. Votes: 3

Who cares what entertainers on the air think about international affairs? Who would want to hear me about Vietnam? They can hear all they want from people with reason to be respected as knowledgeable. Votes: 3

The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C. Votes: 3

Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service. Votes: 3

The military has been determined to control the images of war since Vietnam. They're convinced that they lost the war because of loss of political support back home, because people saw what was going on. Votes: 3

Hell no / I ain't going to go / Clean out my cell / And take my tail / To jail / Without bail / Because it's better there eating / Watching television fed / Than in Vietnam with your white folks dead. Votes: 3

During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian. Votes: 3

I'm old enough to remember John Kennedy sending a few advisers into Vietnam. I'm very worried we'll get in and we'll get mired down in something we don't have any idea what to do [with]. Votes: 3

...(Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has cooked you a few bad meals you must never eat again. Votes: 3

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam Votes: 3

During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not. Votes: 3

Let us put an end to self-inflicted wounds. Let us remember that our national unity is a most priceless asset. Let us deny our adversaries the satisfaction of using Vietnam to pit Americans against Americans. Votes: 3

The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order to continue to get a deferment, you had to go to graduate school. Votes: 3

On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare war. We've been flexible enough to kill people without declaring war. Votes: 3

Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions. Votes: 3

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam. Votes: 3

I was in a community where we were out demonstrating. We were holding vigils against the Vietnam War, in - like, starting in around '67, I think,before it really exploded as a big movement. Votes: 3

I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world. I was lost, and trying not to get into a fight every day. Votes: 3

It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican Republic (April 28, 1965). (Santo Domingo was Iraq before Iraq was Iraq.) Votes: 3

I can tell you exactly where the economy is going. It's going to China, Honduras, Guatemala, Cambodia, Vietnam, Cipan, and any other place where you can pay people peanuts and have them work like dogs. Votes: 3

Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam. Votes: 3

I don't claim to know Israel. I don't speak Hebrew; my contacts are pretty limited. But I didn't know Vietnam; I didn't know Nicaragua, El Salvador or Honduras. It doesn't mean you can't reach your conclusions. Votes: 3

After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts. Votes: 3

I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam war and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out. Votes: 3

Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government. Votes: 3

One thing is clear, the president of North Vietnam is not a fanatic. He is a very strong and determined man, but capable of listening, something that is very rare in a person of his position. Votes: 3

I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam. Votes: 3

With all my traveling around the world I would say that South Vietnam was not as corrupted as ah people want to to ah to to talk about it because it is a matter of degrees. Votes: 3

The Marines in Korea never feared 'friendly fire' or artillery coming from the South Koreans - from their allies - like they did later in Vietnam, fighting with the South Vietnamese. The Koreans could be trusted. Votes: 3

Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States' initial or baptismal experience in nation-building. Votes: 3

Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building. Votes: 3

For me, at least, Vietnam was partly love. With each step, each light-year of a second, a foot soldier is always almost dead, or so it feels, and in such circumstances, you can't help but love. Votes: 3

You don't have to be Dave Halberstam to see that the American role in both conflicts [the Iraq war and the Vietnam conflict] is characterized by arrogance, ignorance and self-delusion at the highest levels of government. Votes: 3

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security. Votes: 3

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam. Votes: 3

Some Kennedy aides have always insisted that Johnson misread J.F.K.'s plans for Vietnam. They say that Kennedy had begun to rethink the U.S. presence in Indochina and was reluctant to increase it. Votes: 3

America is stagnant. We've lost our jobs. We've lost our businesses. We're not making things anymore, relatively speaking. Our product is pouring in from China, pouring in from Vietnam, pouring in from all over the world. Votes: 3

When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity within its borders - as if its denizens were simply a congregation of the downtrodden. Votes: 3

The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply unable to defeat us militarily" and must therefore eventually be forced to compromise. Votes: 3

I joined the People's Armed Forces in 1961 to 1984, and I was also a soldier in the southern battle of Vietnam during the resistance against the Americans. I went to the battlefield in order to regain national independence. Votes: 3

Nature did not gift us with a mighty Mekong like Thailand and Vietnam, with their vast and naturally fertile plains. Nature instead put our islands ahead of our neighbours in the path of typhoons from the Pacific. Votes: 3

At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it's done, it's published. I won't write another book on Vietnam. Votes: 3

Malcolm X was the first prominent American to attack and to criticize the U.S. role in Southeast Asia, and he came out four-square against the Vietnam War in 1964, long before the vast majority of Americans did. Votes: 3

The Vietnam War was in full swing, the Air Force wanted me and I wanted out of Flint, so three years in the USA and that fourth one spent here in Vietnam really flipped my life around. Votes: 3

I never would've imagined in the first part of my life that I could've stood up and said anything. The war in Vietnam changed me. I was so angry. Some of my speeches probably weren't well considered. Votes: 3

In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it's worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started - an outright war started in 1962. Votes: 3

The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse. Votes: 3

I wonder if it changes the nature of a society for beauty to be so common. Maybe in Vietnam "She has a wonderful personality" really means something. But I couldnt figure out a polite way to ask. Votes: 3

If you look at China - and frankly, Vietnam now is doing a big number, and you look at Japan and India and Mexico - Mexico's killing us at the border and they're killing us with trade. Votes: 3

I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive. Votes: 3

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy. Votes: 3

The reason why many young people in the Vietnam War era were active was their lives were threatened by the draft and they were going to perhaps be forced to go overseas and fight in an immoral war. Votes: 3

Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective - taking over the South by force - could not be achieved. Votes: 3

Having gone through the civil rights struggle, having gone through the anti-Vietnam War struggle, by the time I was in my 20s, I had something that the current generation doesnt have. And that is a sense of efficacy. Votes: 3

As you know, several times, McCain talked about serving his country in Vietnam, which is a nice change after 16 years and two presidents who could never quite explain how they got out of serving their country in Vietnam. Votes: 3

No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions. Votes: 3

I wish that George W. Bush had gone to Vietnam, because he would have seen history in a different light. He would've experienced it in a different light because I don't think he understood the nature of war. Votes: 3

I didn't expect to find much visible trace of the American war in Vietnam. The Vietnamese are too hard-bitten to dwell on it, and they've sanded away all but the outcroppings of history - the museums, the memorials. Votes: 3

CBS News on Tuesday had Bob Kerrey in a Vietnam scandal, Senator Bob Torricelli in a donor scandal and Arnold Schwarzenegger in a sex scandal. This confirms what we always knew. Bill Clinton does the work of three men. Votes: 3

If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness. Votes: 3

[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954) Votes: 3

Lyndon Johnson who was the president who was executing that war, announced in the spring of 1968 that he would not seek the presidency again. He would go to Paris and end the war in Vietnam. Well we were ecstatic. Votes: 3

What has been adjudicated and established in the wake of Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement is the ability of the press to basically write or broadcast almost anything about the government. There's very few restrictions in that way. Votes: 3

The greatest contribution Vietnam is making-right or wrong is beside the point-is that it is developing an ability in the United States to fight a limited war, to go to war without the necessity of arousing the public ire. Votes: 3

I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more. Votes: 3

I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify. Votes: 3

Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time. Votes: 3

[ Vietnam War] brought the people together and made the '60s like they were. The youth were very unified against the status quo - against the old line and the new old line. It's the same exact thing today. Votes: 3

You could think about Vietnam and at some point in time about Nigeria. And then you head to South America: Argentina, Columbia, Peru. Probably not all of them will have an F1 race, but they are definitely considering events. Votes: 3

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated. Votes: 3

America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War. Votes: 3

If you listen to [Donald] Trump, he`s going to make sure we get our jobs back from Mexico, and jobs back from China. Now, he`s mentioned Vietnam, we`re going to get the jobs back from Vietnam. Votes: 3

Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy. Votes: 3

The first half of Vietnam was fought to win the war, and the second half of Vietnam was soldiers going haywire without a mission, getting further and further towards our friend, Captain Kurtz and our friends at 'Apocalypse Now.' Votes: 3

The idea of accountability in Vietnam, Nicaragua and now Iraq - the media never has that in its quiver. When you see time after time there is no possibility of Nuremberg [war crime trials], we're doomed to have it repeated. Votes: 3

When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war. Votes: 3

The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown. Votes: 3

I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam. Votes: 3

Philip Jones Griffith documented the Vietnam War, and through his images that were published in Time Life Magazine, it showed me the horrors of war and at that time, I wanted to be a war photographer, based off his work. Votes: 3

I`ve got to get a shoutout to, who`s the "BuzzFeed" reporter, he`s amazing at finding stuff. You have Donald Trump talking about his experiences having casual sex as his own personal Vietnam, avoiding an STD, like no one. Votes: 3

I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers. Votes: 3

In the late 60's I was enrolled at Occidental College majoring in philosophy and taking several studio art classes, but I dropped out. It was a very confusing time with the war in Vietnam and the social changes sweeping the nation. Votes: 3

Bill Klinton was the ultimate rock star as president. I don't think as a result of his presidency we will ever have a rock star as president again. In the same way that we will never get involved in another Vietnam. Votes: 3

The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea wouldn't catch on big in her native country until the last three years of the Vietnam War." Votes: 3

We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War game - the soldiers - into missing the point once again about the utter senselessness that is war. Votes: 3

We respect the freedom of all citizens. Young people should have fun, but there is no tolerance of drug abuse. Drugs have become a serious problem in Vietnam. This is why we have very strict penalties for any sort of drug dealing. Votes: 3

President Bush's campaign is now attacking John Kerry for throwing away some of his medals to protest the Vietnam War. Bush did not have any medals to throw away, but in his defense he did have all his services records thrown out. Votes: 3

When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist. Votes: 3

The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea wouldn't catch on big in her native country until the last three years of the Vietnam War. Votes: 3

I used to say, 'Mad' takes on both sides.' We even used to rake the hippies over the coals. They were protesting the Vietnam War, but we took aspects of their culture and had fun with it. 'Mad' was wide open. Votes: 3

Those of us who finally saw through the Vietnam war saw through this war, and all the actions that were necessary to end the Vietnam war will be necessary here. I think the American people will get us out of this war. Votes: 3

Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me. Votes: 3

When I wrote War Against the Mafia as a Vietnam statement, I didn't expect much to come of it-but quite a bit came and it captured me. I continued the books to feed the obvious hunger that was there for heroic fiction. Votes: 3

East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century. Votes: 3

East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century. Votes: 3

Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? Votes: 3

Hillary Clinton will travel to Vietnam with the president this Friday. It's a fact that at the height of the war in 1971, she tried to enlist in the Marines, but they turned her down. Apparently we weren't that mad at the Viet Cong. Votes: 3

One of the lessons of Vietnam, which we failed to heed in the Iraq war and the Afghanistan surge, is that before you commit U.S. military forces to aid or assist, it is essential to know what you want them to achieve. Votes: 3

I was a grunt, walking around in the jungle of Vietnam, trying not to find the enemy. Because I am so big, they were going to give me either a heavy radio or a huge machine gun to carry. I carried a radio. Votes: 3

More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to an end, and after the American people had already decided that they did not want one more soldier to die in Vietnam. Votes: 3

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War. Votes: 3

In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation. It isn't happening now, but I will tell you, there has never been an American army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq. Votes: 3

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place. Votes: 3

Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars. Votes: 3

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place Votes: 3

Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything-it can stop the Vietnam War. It can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything. Votes: 3

Yeah, I love living in New York, man, and people who live in New York, we wear that fact like a badge right on our sleeve because we know that fact impresses everybody! I was in Vietnam. So what? I live in New York! Votes: 3

Some 30 years later I found myself back here again [in Vietnam] on what was to be a short visit that lasted months, and since then I've been living my life with one foot in Ho Chi Minh City and the other in Fair Oaks, California. Votes: 3

So much of my work involved the Vietnam War that it would have been obscene to show it in a gallery. But now, it's different; it's important to remember and to enable the young to discover what to some of us is still so present. Votes: 3

I'm a child of the '60s, I came of age then. I went to a couple of demonstrations, and then in the late '60s when the Vietnam anti-war movement grew as the Vietnam War was heating up, I became very involved in that. Votes: 3

I would caution anyone who thinks the solution is to get out to realize that Iraq will be our problem, whether we're there or not, for years to come. It will not be Vietnam; it will not let us go home and lick our wounds. Votes: 3

The people in our country and in America and in all West European countries, they have to gorge and guzzle so that they don't even start to think about the fact that we have something to do with Vietnam or what it might be about, OK? Votes: 3

I was a surf bum wannabe. I left home at age 17 and moved to Southern California to try to take up surfing as a vocation, but this was in 1964, and there was this nasty little thing called the Vietnam War. As a result, I got drafted. Votes: 3

I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and sorrow in my heart, and above all with a passionate desire to see our beloved country stand as a moral example of the world. Votes: 3

It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories. Votes: 3

I lied about serving in Vietnam, and I'm sorry. I did not mean to take away from the actions and the sacrifices of the ones who did really serve there... I did steal valor. That was very wrong of me. There is no real excuse for that. Votes: 3

When I was in Vietnam with Jane Fonda, I was shooting a farmer in a field - just a pastoral scene. And while I was shooting him, an explosion occurred right - he blew up right in my lens, so to speak. And he had stepped on a landmine. Votes: 3