Vietnam Quotes

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?

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

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