Surprisingly, it seems to be a very apathetic age in America. You know, during Vietnam I played Kent State University, shortly after… — Elton John Copy Share Image
Henry Kissinger spent years negotiating the terms of our surrender there and ended up with a deal that he could have gotten… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, we watched the Vietnam War on the six o'clock news, and it was desensitizing. You felt you… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I lost my athletic scholarship by injuring my right knee. That right knee kept me out of Vietnam, and I went into… — Gary Busey Copy Share Image
I was asked in a way when Honorable Elijah Mohammed said take the step, choose between the wealth of America and the… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S. defeat was to… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
None of the people's wars of the sixties did very well, including the one in Vietnam. Vo Nguyen Giap himself has admitted… — Chalmers Johnson Copy Share Image
The Vietnam war will not be over until it ends for everyone. Over four hundred thousand U.S. veterans are still recovering from… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
We understand that Nixon's aggression against Vietnam is a racist aggression, that the American war in Vietnam is a racist war, a… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam… — Paul Dickson Copy Share Image
I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by… — Birch Bayh Copy Share Image
You could think about Vietnam and at some point in time about Nigeria. And then you head to South America: Argentina, Columbia,… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
“Viet Nam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam seems to… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
It wasn't the Medal of Honor that changed my life. It was being in Vietnam itself. The close situations changed my whole… — Michael E. Thornton Copy Share Image
I didn't come here without a visa, like everyone from China and Vietnam and Cuba. I came here by special plane... received… — Bikram Choudhury Copy Share Image
If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The kids filed quietly to the edge of the strip to wait for the helicopters. Other Marines stopped to watch them, wanting… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
Lyndon Johnson is not a comfortable model for President Obama to imitate. He is an all-but-forgotten president - pilloried for the failed… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
If you get a President (Hillary) Clinton, you might well find, just as after Vietnam, that there is a retraction from Iraq… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
The imperialistic or capitalistic system occupies areas. It occupies Vietnam now. They occupy them by sending soldiers there, by sending policeman there.… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is… — Arthur Goldberg Copy Share Image
They [politicians] have defined the war simply in terms of the detonation of explosives. When you look at the broader picture, America… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
My idea was that the role of the special forces were to train Vietnamese to behave as guerrillas, harassing the supply lines… — Roger Hilsman Copy Share Image
I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War's harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
What really happened in Vietnam was- all these things are away games for the American military. We're not on our home turf,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to… — Raul Grijalva Copy Share Image
“And so, seemingly overnight, French political and military influence in South Vietnam withered. On May 20, 1955, French forces withdrew from the… — Fredrik Logevall Copy Share Image
East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mr. McCain fought in Vietnam. I think that he has enough blood of peaceful citizens on his hands. It must be impossible… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I would think somebody like Jane Fonda and her idiot husband would be terribly ashamed and saddened that they were a part… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
I think that the war on drugs is domestic Vietnam. And didn't we learn from Vietnam that, at a certain point in… — Kurt Schmoke Copy Share Image
My father left us when I was 10, so I had to make enough money for us to be able to live… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move… — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
“There were splits within families over the present war, where one son had sided with Saigon and the other with Hanoi. The… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
With respect to where we are now, we have a voluntary army. And if we ever go back to conscription I hope… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
No country can hope to beat the Yanks off with conventional weapons - they've got air, sea and land completely covered. The… — Margo Kingston Copy Share Image
One-hundred facts about Vietnam and we studied the fact sheet and got in to these arguments and it was fantastic, and I… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Men, also, have in them enormous capacities that they have to repress and fear in themselves, living up to this obsolete and… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
![“They [politicians] have defined the war simply in terms of the detonation of explosives. When you look at the broader picture, America is mired in two wars that we're losing at the moment. We have a political environment that is as poisonous as anything I've seen, at least since the end of Vietnam.” quote by Michael Scheuer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e74/michael-scheuer-7471_america_they-politicians-have-defined-the-war-si_1405695.png)
![“Mr. McCain fought in Vietnam. I think that he has enough blood of peaceful citizens on his hands. It must be impossible for him to live without these disgusting scenes anymore. Mr. McCain was captured and they kept him not just in prison, but in a pit for several years. Anyone [in his place] would…” quote by Vladimir Putin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/404/vladimir-putin-261_blood_mr-mccain-fought-in-vietnam-i-think-that_434321.jpg)
