Vietnam remains an underdeveloped economy with a high poverty incidence, ... party, people and army will continue to stand united and ...… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The brave men and women, who serve their country and as a result, live constantly with the war inside them, exist in… — Robert Koger Copy Share Image
Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Coming of age in the 1960s, I heard the word 'fascist' all the time. College presidents were fascists; Vietnam War supporters were… — David Oshinsky Copy Share Image
We forget now, but during his life, Dr. King wasn't always considered a unifying figure. Even after rising to prominence, even after… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When people denounced [former Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad for rejecting and criminalizing homosexuality, it should be remembered that was true of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Bradlee had been recruited with the idea that the New York Times need nod exercise absolute preeminence in American journalism. That vision… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“I always liked your piety, Jack.” “I’m a lot cuter than the women of your generation,” Betsy said, playing up to Capers… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I'd been a child during the 1960s when women burned their bras and hundreds of thousands gathered in protests against the Vietnam… — Lynn Hill Copy Share Image
“There are days when I almost forget that I fought in that war. It was such a long time ago. I was… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Take a Somalian toddler. She has a 20% probability of dying before reaching the age of five. Now compare: American frontline soldiers… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Lady, did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?” This film came out at the height of the Vietnam… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The Vietnam War was in full swing, the Air Force wanted me and I wanted out of Flint, so three years in… — Doug Rice Copy Share Image
The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In the 1970s, we got a Labor government that put more emphasis on trade with Asia; the Vietnam war ended, and refugees… — Jimmy Barnes Copy Share Image
The Vietnam War was taking place, which was raising all sorts of questions in the United States, and it was forcing Asian-Americans… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Even soldiers from the Vietnam War had said that when they were fighting in that war, the landmine was just one of… — Jody Williams Copy Share Image
“The Vietnam War was definitive in the lives of those who served. But those who made it home, never fully returned. My… — Joseph M. Puglia Copy Share Image
Television and movies were our biggest teachers. When we came to the United States, the Vietnam War was just ratcheting up. And… — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
The transition after the Vietnam War to an all-volunteer force created the world's finest professional military. But it also reinforced geographic and… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“This edition of The Making of a Quagmire differs in a number of ways from the original one. Approximately one-third of the… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“Combat is fast, unfair, cruel, and dirty. It is meant to be that way so that the terrible experience is branded into… — Bruce H. Norton Copy Share Image
Take a look at public opinion. About 70 percent of the population, in the polls, said the [Vietnam ] war was fundamentally… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Michael Herr, the most brilliant reporter of the Vietnam War, captures the same frenzy in the voice of one American soldier he… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
The reason why many young people in the Vietnam War era were active was their lives were threatened by the draft and… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
“The idea that we must choose between the method of "winning hearts and minds" and the method of shaping behavior presumes that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Labels not only free us from the obligation to think creatively; they numb our sensibilities, our power to feel. During the Vietnam… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there is anyone who knows what a rigged system looks like, it's Donald Trump, who was able to evade the draft… — Mike Coffman Copy Share Image
“During its short time in Venezuela, the US Army suffered casualties that approached Vietnam War levels, and it eventually had to withdraw.… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda.… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
“In America's 'nonlinear war', with no frontline or clear political or territorial goals, the number of enemy killed apparently revealed who was… — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals into the arms of the Left,… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image