Vietnam Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border of Afghanistan, I wrote to President Jimmy Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

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.

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

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

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

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.

Vietnam is absolutely breathtaking. I've never been to that part of the world before and it is an area of such natural beauty.

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

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

It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

We still seek no wider war.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.