Vietnam Quotes - Page 7

Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they didn't want.

I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a << racial epithet >>.

How much blood makes a 'bloodbath'?

I am shocked that we seemed to have learned nothing, absolutely nothing, from Vietnam.

I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.

The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.

I wouldn't characterize anybody who fought in Vietnam as a war hero. In 23 bombing sorties, there must have been civilians that were killed and there's no heroism to that.

John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there.

Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.

I have a few memories of being young here in the United States, but almost no recollections of being young in Vietnam.

This nation should be less worried about putting the Vietnam syndrome behind us than restarting the World War II victory syndrome that resulted in the Vietnam syndrome in the first place.

It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican Republic (April 28, 1965). (Santo Domingo was Iraq before Iraq was Iraq.)

I deeply regret having let stand and later confirming the assumption that I went to Vietnam. For this and any other distortions about my personal life, I want to apologize to my family, friends, colleagues and students. Beyond that circle, however, I shall have no further comment.

Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the other. All of that has disappeared thanks to Lyndon Johnson.

We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.

I'd rather go to Vietnam than get married.

I never would've imagined in the first part of my life that I could've stood up and said anything. The war in Vietnam changed me. I was so angry. Some of my speeches probably weren't well considered.

I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason.

In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising.

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault.

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

Philip Jones Griffith documented the Vietnam War, and through his images that were published in Time Life Magazine, it showed me the horrors of war and at that time, I wanted to be a war photographer, based off his work.

The International Control Commission isn't doing anything, it's never done anything. What good does it do to be on it or not? Before opening the embassy in Hanoi, I gave it a lot of thought, but it wasn't really a painful decision. American policy in Vietnam is what it is, in Saigon the situation is anything but normal, and I'm happy to have done what I did.

A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.