Vietnam Quotes - Page 4

Vietnam is absolutely breathtaking. I've never been to that part of the world before and it is an area of such natural beauty.

Shape your coat according to your cloth.

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam.

I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war.

Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.

Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.

It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.

We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified them.

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really.

But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20.

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam and it's just as awful as anything else.

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

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

I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.

Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened.

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

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.

There was that last blast of Westerns that came out in the Seventies, those Vietnam/Watergate Westerns where everything was about demystification. And I like that about those movies.

We [Vietnam] happen to offer good investment opportunities for foreigners, although this is not a one-way street. Both we and the foreign investors benefit greatly as a result.

I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there.