Vietnam Quotes

Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.

There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of 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.

Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.

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.

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.

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

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.

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.

What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties.

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

I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.

Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them - active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular - to try and end the war.

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq.

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.

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.

South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon.

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.

After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.

Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.

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'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.

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.