List Of Vietnam Quotes

Think About This - Some Of Us Actively Fighting To Remove Saddam Hussein Don't Agree With The Cause Themselves, But They're Doing Their Duty. And It Is Our Duty As Loyal Americans To Shut Up Once The Fighting Begins, Unless - Unless Facts Prove The Operation Wrong, As Was The Case In Vietnam.

In Japan People Drive On The Left. In China People Drive On The Right. In Vietnam It Doesn't Matter.

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.

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.

I Longed In Many Respects To Actually Be In Vietnam And Be Representing Our Country There.

It Was Not My Desire To Go Off And Serve In Vietnam.

I Was Too Important To Go To Vietnam.

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.

A Country That Has Been Through As Much As Vietnam Has To Have Some Crazy Music Somewhere.

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.

I Only Follow One Party: The Vietnamese Party.

Vietnam Was As Much A Laboratory Experiment As A War.

Millions Also Perished In The Chinese Camps, And There Have Been Terrible Genocides In Cambodia And Vietnam.

I'd Rather Go To Vietnam Than Get Married.

I Thought The Vietnam War Was An Utter, Unmitigated Disaster, So It Was Very Hard For Me To Say Anything Good About It.

One Of The Sharp Parallels Is That Neither Vietnam Nor Iraq Was The Slightest Threat To America's National Security.

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.

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.

What Makes It Immoral If You Lose And Not Immoral If You Win?

The War In Vietnam Is Going Well And Will Succeed.

The Signs Of The Vietnam War Protestors Said "make Love Not War!" It Didn't Seem To Me That They Were Capable Of Either.

Freedom-loving People Around The World Must Say . . . I Am A Refugee In A Crowded Boat Foundering Off The Coast Of Vietnam. I Am Laotian, A Cambodian, A Cuban, And A Miskito Indian In Nicaragua. I, Too, Am A Potential Victim Of Totalitarianism.

In The '60s We Fought For Peace, When The Vietnam War Was On. We Were Against The Cops And Against The Politicians, And There Was A Lot Of Waving Banners And All That. And I Think In A Way, Just As They Were Enjoying That Machoism Of War, We Were Enjoying The Machismo Of Being Anti-war, You Know?

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.

Enough Is Enough. This Is How We Get Started In Vietnam.

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.

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.

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.

To Me, Columbine Is Just As Awful As Vietnam And It's Just As Awful As Anything Else.

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.

If The Mets Can Win The World Series, The United States Can Get Out Of Vietnam.

After The '30s, We Said, "no More Munichs." And It Got Us In A Lot Of Problems. Then We Said, "no More Vietnams." Now If We Say, "no More Iraqs," The Next One Won't Be An Iraq. It Will Be Something Different. You Can't Learn Lessons.

We Must Never Forget That If The War In Vietnam Is Lost ... The Right Of Free Speech Will Be Extinguished Throughout The World.

You Have My Assurance That We Will Respond With Full Force Should The Settlement Be Violated By North Vietnam.

I'm Not Going To Be The First American President To Lose A War.

Let Us Understand: North Vietnam Cannot Defeat Or Humiliate The United States. Only Americans Can Do That.

There Was A Time When Liberalism Was Identified With Anti-communism. But The Vietnam War Led Liberals Into The Arms Of The Left, Which Had Been Morally Confused About Communism Since Its Inception And Had Become Essentially Pacifist Following The Carnage Of World War I.

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.

With Respect To Where We Are Now, We Have A Voluntary Army. And If We Ever Go Back To Conscription I Hope That At Time It Will Be The Kind Of Conscription That Was Put In At The End Of The Vietnam War. And That Is, Everybody Is Equally Liable To Be Called To Serve The Nation In Time Of Conflict.

Had There Been A Reporter Along With Lieutenant Calley When He Massacred Those People In Vietnam, I Think That Probably Wouldn't Have Happened.

As Bill Clinton Said So Eloquently At The Convention, During Vietnam There Was A Chance To Serve; There Was A Chance Not To Serve.

I Wasn't For Vietnam. When I Told That To The Hippie Newspaper, All My People Got Nervous.

You Think Vietnam Was Bad? Vietnam Is Nothing Next To Kosovo.

God Willing, The Occupation Forces Will Be Driven Out As Happened In Vietnam.

It's Kennedy's War, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson Got All The Flak, But It's Kennedy's War.

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.

If Recep Tayyip Erdogan Cannot Placate Isis, How Are We Ever Gonna Be Able To? And Placate Is Clearly What John Kerry, Who Once Served In Vietnam, And Barack Hussein O And Hillary Clinton Think Is The Only Thing We Have To Do Is Placate Them. Because We’re At Fault, See.

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.

Today We Have Two Vietnams, Side By Side, North And South.

My Solution To The Problem Would Be To Tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] Frankly That They've Got To Draw In Their Horns And Stop Their Aggression Or We're Going To Bomb Them Into The Stone Age. And We Would Shove Them Back Into The Stone Age With Air Power Or Naval Power - Not With Ground Forces.

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.

How Much Blood Makes A 'bloodbath'?

Let Me Make My Point About Vietnam. When The Nixon Initiation Came Into Office, There Were 550,000 Americans In Combat. And Ending The War Was Not A Question Of Turning Off A Television Channel. And So, Debating On How We Got There And What Judgments Were Made Was Not Going To Help Us.

One Of The Greatest Casualties Of The War In Vietnam Is The Great Society... Shot Down On The Battlefield Of Vietnam.

President Bush Is Not Fazed By Other Candidates' War Records. He Said, I May Have Not Fought In Vietnam, But I Created One.

I Wrote A Novel About The Combat Experiences I Didn't Have In Vietnam.

We Were Sent To Vietnam To Kill Communism. But We Found Instead That We Were Killing Women And Children.

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?

Now We Have A Problem In Making Our Power Credible, And Vietnam Is The Place.

We Still Seek No Wider War.

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.

I Believe We Can Continue The Great Society While We Fight In Vietnam.

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.

Senator Albert Gore Sr. Was One Of The First Outspoken Critics Of The Vietnam War.

If I Had That Kind Of Money, I Wouldn't Come To Vietnam, I'd Send For It.

Sure Vietnam Is A Dirty War. I've Never Heard Of A Clean One.

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.

Although I Wasnt 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.

Vietnam Is Absolutely Breathtaking. I've Never Been To That Part Of The World Before And It Is An Area Of Such Natural Beauty.

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.

The International Control Commission Isn't Doing Anything, It's Never Done Anything. What Good Does It Do To Be On It Or Not? Before Opening The Embassy In Hanoi, I Gave It A Lot Of Thought, But It Wasn't Really A Painful Decision. American Policy In Vietnam Is What It Is, In Saigon The Situation Is Anything But Normal, And I'm Happy To Have Done What I Did.

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.

[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.

I Wanted To Have The Opportunity To Travel To Vietnam And Sydney, And Have The Chance To Work There.

I'm From The Vietnam Generation. I Didn't Serve.

I Got Interested In Politics During The Civil Rights Movement And Then Vietnam.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Communications Are Better Now Than In My Vietnam Days.

Everybody Respects The Vietnam Veterans Of America.

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.

I Deeply Regret Having Let Stand And Later Confirming The Assumption That I Went To Vietnam. For This And Any Other Distortions About My Personal Life, I Want To Apologize To My Family, Friends, Colleagues And Students. Beyond That Circle, However, I Shall Have No Further Comment.

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.

You Have A Row Of Dominoes Set Up; You Knock Over The First One, And What Will Happen To The Last One Is That It Will Go Over Very Quickly.

My Father Had Gone To Vietnam.

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.

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.)

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.

I Was So Opposed To The War In Vietnam That I Initially Refused President Nixon's Urgings For Me To Go There.

It Seems Now More Certain Than Ever That The Bloody Experience Of Vietnam Is To End In A Stalemate.

The Daily Coverage Of The Vietnamese Battlefield Helped Convince The American Public That The Carnage Was Not Worth The Candle.

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.

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.

So Now It Turns Out That Thomas Jefferson Was Having Sex With Sally Hemings While Serving In The 101st Airborne During The Vietnam War.

The Only Important Lesson From The Vietnam War Is This: Democrats Lose Wars.

Vietnam Is The Liberals' Favorite Was Because America Lost

My Film Is Not A Movie; It's Not About Vietnam. It Is Vietnam.

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.