Vietnam Quotes

Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Enough is enough. This is how we get started in Vietnam.

[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.

Iraq was a war of choice, like Vietnam.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

My father had gone to Vietnam.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

I'd rather go to Vietnam than get married.

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

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

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

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.

Can you imagine in 1968 some band being like, "Vietnam is the place to be!"

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

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.

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.

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