Vietnam Quotes - Page 3

Vietnam, really more accurately, Laos, was almost after Berlin the top problem at the beginning of the Kennedy Administration in '61, foreign problem.

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

So now it turns out that Thomas Jefferson was having sex with Sally Hemings while serving in the 101st Airborne during the Vietnam War.

If John McCain were really a war hero he would've won Vietnam.

In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

I`ve got to get a shoutout to, who`s the "BuzzFeed" reporter, he`s amazing at finding stuff. You have Donald Trump talking about his experiences having casual sex as his own personal Vietnam, avoiding an STD, like no one.

The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle.

Obama avoided the Vietnam draft with a letter from his family doctor diagnosing him as medically eight.

I saw a large, red dried swath that I immediately identified clearly as blood. I covered the war in Vietnam. I saw a lot of it [blood] there.

I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.

The programs that came to be known as the New Deal were not simply handed down by the benevolence of FDR and the Democrats. They were fought for. And in the 1960s, it was the similar. You had incredible movements against Jim Crow, poverty and the Vietnam War in the 1960s.

Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

First, there are some of my readers who only read Hap and Leonard, not the other stuff, and some who don't read Hap and Leonard, but a large percentage are crossover readers. And yes, I did refuse to go to Vietnam and it looked like prison was in my future, but they sent me to the psychiatrist and he gave me a 1-Y, which is unfit for military service essentially.

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

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

We`re a little bit low in the 1970s, right, post-Vietnam, Watergate era, malaise, all that, but this is more like the 1930s where the very notion of liberal democracy is being questioned, and that is disturbing.

To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.

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.

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

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

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.

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