Vietnam Quotes

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.

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

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.

Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.

But, you know, I just did a big trip in the spring to Vietnam and Cambodia and Thailand, and that's when I bought a Kindle. I have like 15 books on this one little gizmo. But when I came home, the first night I picked up the book that was on my nightstand and I went right back to that.

Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq.

Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam?

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.

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

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.

If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.

Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.

We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

It's shades of Vietnam again, folks: body counts.

Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

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.

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

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.

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.

The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it.

I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.

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

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

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.

Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!