Vietnam Quotes
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Certainly the Australians were buried in Korea. But I think that from Vietnam on, all the killed were brought home to America or to Australia, in our case. (Quote by - Peter Scott)
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. (Quote by - Terry Gilliam)
Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters. (Quote by - Willie Stargell)
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. (Quote by - James Donald)
I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable. (Quote by - U Thant)
The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam. (Quote by - Bruce Jackson)
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. (Quote by - Francis Cardinal Spellman)
We should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age. (Quote by - Curtis Lemay)
Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World. (Quote by - Mary Chapin Carpenter)
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. (Quote by - Ron Paul)
As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve. (Quote by - Mark Shields)
The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names. (Quote by - William Westmoreland)
What are we blaming? Is this Vietnam? We made a movie, it didn't make much money. I'm gonna be really happy if somebody watches it in 10 years' time and really enjoys it. (Quote by - Kevin Costner)
Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like. (Quote by - Tony Hillerman)
If, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world. (Quote by - Richard M. Nixon)
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. (Quote by - Michael Herr)
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people. (Quote by - Gerome Ragni)
The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake. (Quote by - Stephen Ambrose)
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. (Quote by - Stephen Ambrose)
We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam. (Quote by - Alexander Haig)
George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam. (Quote by - Peter Jennings)
I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War. (Quote by - Mike Mansfield)
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. (Quote by - Vida Blue)
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. (Quote by - Mel Gibson)
Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods. (Quote by - Henry Kissinger)
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. (Quote by - David Hackworth)
During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions. (Quote by - Nguyen Cao Ky)
We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. (Quote by - Zbigniew Brzezinski)
By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam. (Quote by - Nguyen Cao Ky)
After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate. (Quote by - Nguyen Cao Ky)
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. (Quote by - William Westmoreland)
From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism. (Quote by - Nguyen Cao Ky)
My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. (Quote by - Francis Ford Coppola)
As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it. (Quote by - William Westmoreland)
I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam. (Quote by - Tracy Kidder)
When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner. (Quote by - Lyndon B. Johnson)
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. (Quote by - Breyten Breytenbach)
Tell the Vietnamese they've got to draw in their horns or we're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age. (Quote by - Lyndon B. Johnson)
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. (Quote by - Parker Stevenson)
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. (Quote by - Graham Nash)
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. (Quote by - Sam Elliott)
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. (Quote by - J. William Fulbright)
The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
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. (Quote by - Mark Mothersbaugh)
Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War. (Quote by - Peter Jennings)
I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one. (Quote by - Richard M. Nixon)
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. (Quote by - Henry Kissinger)
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. (Quote by - Neil Sheehan)
I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam. (Quote by - Stephen Ambrose)
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. (Quote by - Nong Duc Manh)
The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq. (Quote by - Mohammed Aldouri)
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. (Quote by - Maya Lin)
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. (Quote by - Marshall McLuhan)
It's shades of Vietnam again, folks: body counts. (Quote by - Seymour Hersh)
Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war. (Quote by - John Pilger)
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. (Quote by - Paul Tsongas)
The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice. (Quote by - Marion Berry)
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. (Quote by - Maya Lin)
These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam. (Quote by - Neil Sheehan)
I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war. (Quote by - Robert Jay Lifton)
I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam. (Quote by - Ed Bradley)
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. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose of war is not to annihilate an enemy but to get him to mend his ways. And we are confident we can get the enemy to mend his. (Quote by - Arthur J. Goldberg)
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. (Quote by - James Stockdale)
I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate. (Quote by - David Cross)
Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there. (Quote by - William Westmoreland)
The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it. (Quote by - Bob Livingston)
I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam. (Quote by - Lyndon B. Johnson)
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. (Quote by - John F. Kerry)
'In the final analysis, it's their war'- JFK on the Vietnam War, before he had the chance to pull out he was assassinated (Quote by - John F Kennedy)
Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie. (Quote by - Jerry Stiller)
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. (Quote by - Marshall McLuhan)
You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win. (Quote by - Ho Chi Minh)
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. (Quote by - Michael Herr)
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies. (Quote by - Benjamin Spock)
We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do. (Quote by - Wendell Berry)
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. (Quote by - Jeanette Rankin)
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. (Quote by - Anna Louise Strong)
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. (Quote by - Donald Sutherland)
My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it. (Quote by - Robert Vaughn)
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there. (Quote by - Sammy Davis, Jr.)
Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam. (Quote by - Tom Hayden)
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. (Quote by - Lyndon B. Johnson)
South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon. (Quote by - William Colby)
I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-rate power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history. (Quote by - Richard M. Nixon)
Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them. (Quote by - Hanoi Hannah)
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. (Quote by - John Charles Polanyi)
John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there. (Quote by - Max Cleland)
I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war. (Quote by - Neil Sheehan)
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. (Quote by - Lars von Trier)
This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam. (Quote by - Ed Bradley)
We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans. (Quote by - Jim McDermott)
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. (Quote by - Richard Hell)
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. (Quote by - Morley Safer)
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. (Quote by - George Galloway)
I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement. (Quote by - Jon Voight)
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. (Quote by - Thom Gunn)
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. (Quote by - R. Lee Ermey)
I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate. (Quote by - Lew Wasserman)
This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart. (Quote by - Dalton Trumbo)
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
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. (Quote by - Gerald Scarfe)
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. (Quote by - Nguyen Cao Ky)
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. (Quote by - Roma Downey)
Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words. (Quote by - Bruce Jackson)
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. (Quote by - Larry David)
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. (Quote by - Phillip Noyce)
Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam. (Quote by - Jean-Marie Le Pen)
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr)
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. (Quote by - Howard Fineman)
If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam. (Quote by - Tom Seaver)
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle. (Quote by - Barry Goldwater)
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. (Quote by - Lauren Graham)
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. (Quote by - Mike Gravel)
Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America. (Quote by - Myra MacPherson)
This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam. (Quote by - Hanoi Hannah)
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? (Quote by - William Westmoreland)
When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail. (Quote by - William Westmoreland)
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. (Quote by - William Odom)
I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there. (Quote by - Brendan Fraser)
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. (Quote by - William Westmoreland)
I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years. (Quote by - Morley Safer)
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. (Quote by - Hugo Black)
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone. (Quote by - William Westmoreland)
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. (Quote by - Oliver North)
Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America. (Quote by - R. Lee Ermey)
If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does. (Quote by - Ann Coulter)
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation. (Quote by - Benjamin Spock)
Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened. (Quote by - Bob Schieffer)
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. (Quote by - Mort Walker)
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. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
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. (Quote by - Benjamin Spock)
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. (Quote by - F. Murray Abraham)
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. (Quote by - Richard M. Nixon)
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man. (Quote by - Ho Chi Minh)
It [the war in Vietnam] poisons everything. It has disrupted the economy, envenomed our politics, hurt the alliance, divided our people, and now it is interfering with this critical question of the arms race. (Quote by - James Reston)
I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous. (Quote by - Loretta Lynn)
The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world. (Quote by - Jean Baudrillard)
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves. (Quote by - John Kenneth Galbraith)
It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam. (Quote by - Paul Begala)
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. (Quote by - Tim Holden)
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. (Quote by - Tom Clancy)
If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations. (Quote by - Nguyen Cao Ky)
Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that. (Quote by - Richard Nixon)
