Vietnam Quotes
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Vietnam Quotes & Sayings
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Nothing existed outside ourselves and school. For us, the world of politics, social revolution, the war in Vietnam never happened.
— Rachel Klein
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. (On Vietnam War)
— Charles De Gaulle
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
— Benjamin Spock
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Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq.
— Rosanne Cash
You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict
— Juan Williams
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
— William Westmoreland
Post-Traumatic Stress Injury isn't a disease. It's a wound to the soul that never heals.
— Tom Glenn
We're going to bomb them back into the stone Age.
— Curtis LeMay
We still seek no wider war.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.
— Michael Caine
My father served in Vietnam. When I was young he told me that everyone needs an emotional foxhole. A place to hide when life's storms hit.
— Richard Paul Evans
Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
— Edward R. Murrow
With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.
— Cornell Capa
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.
— Sam Donaldson
There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.
— Noam Chomsky
I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.
— Neil Sheehan
The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.
— Noam Chomsky
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.
— William Westmoreland
Last night I dreamed of Peace.
— Dang Thuy Tram
I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.
— Brendan Fraser
Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened.
— Bob Schieffer
One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.
— George McGovern
The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
— Oliver Stone
We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans.
— Jim McDermott
We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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.
— J. William Fulbright
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.
— George H. W. Bush
How, then, can the feds justify favoring sons of Hispanics over sons of white Americans who fought in World War II or Vietnam?
— Pat Buchanan
To where? We don't know. To do what? We don't know either. No one tells us anything. We just follow orders.
— Derrick Wolf
I was too important to go to Vietnam.
— Mitt Romney
The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.
— Marion Barry
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The Vietnam war was fought over portion size.
— Jon Stewart
By '95 - in New York, alone - more Americans had died of AIDS than were killed in Vietnam.
— John Irving
Vietnam was a noble cause imperfectly pursued
— Ronald Regan
By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.
— Nguyen Cao Ky
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.
— Paul Galanti
Westmoreland recognized that the only way to seal South Vietnam's eight hundred-mile western border was to shut down the infiltration routes.
— Robert D. Sander
As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.
— Mark Shields
Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.
— Jean-Marie Le Pen
The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.
— Stephen Ambrose
Obama avoided the Vietnam draft with a letter from his family doctor diagnosing him as medically eight.
— Stephen Colbert
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.
— Myra MacPherson
It won't hurt you. It's just to kill plants. It's called Agent Orange ... and it won't bother humans.
— Karl Marlantes
Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience.
— Nicholas Proffitt
I'd rather go to Vietnam than get married.
— Joe Namath
Vietnam, really more accurately, Laos, was almost after Berlin the top problem at the beginning of the Kennedy Administration in '61, foreign problem.
— McGeorge Bundy
But this too is true: stories can save us.
— Tim O'Brien
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.
— James Fallows
I grew up reading Holocaust literature at the beach, Gulag literature on winter holidays, Vietnam memoirs on spring break.
— Michael Hastings
Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.
— Rick DeStefanis
South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon.
— William Colby
The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed.
— Robert McNamara
Without the Indian Subcontinent, in other words, there could not have been a Vietnam in any cultural or aesthetic sense.
— Robert D. Kaplan
'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
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.
— Richard Holbrooke
Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.
— R. Lee Ermey
George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam.
— Peter Jennings
It became necessary to destroy the town to save it,
— Peter Arnett
What is this demilitarized zone? Whatever it is, I like it! Gets you on your toes better than a strong cup of cappuccino.
— Robin Williams
Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.
— John Pilger
I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
— Gordon Lightfoot
To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.
— Marilyn Manson
I hated him for making me stop hating him
— Tim O'Brien
