Vietnam Quotes · Page 3

My father was a Vietnam vet, and he was Green Beret.

— James Ransone

It's shades of Vietnam again, folks: body counts.

— Seymour Hersh

Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.

— Jerry Brown

I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.

— Al Franken

My father is American and deserted the Vietnam War.

— Joel Kinnaman

No one ever comes back from Vietnam. Not really.

— Anonymous

I'd rather go to Vietnam than get married.

— Joe Namath

My father had gone to Vietnam.

— Elizabeth Edwards

I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.

— Oliver North

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail

— William Westmoreland

There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.

— Muhammad Ali

There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Wendell Berry

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

— Loretta Lynn

America lost its face with the debacle of the Vietnam War.

— Tiny Tim

Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time.

— Alex Garland

With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.

— Cornell Capa

They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to…

— Noam Chomsky

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but…

— Benjamin Spock

In the early stages of our involvement in Vietnam, basically I felt that our course was right. My concern grew with the…

— Walter Cronkite

I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man…

— Jane Fonda

I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world.…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

“My dad once told me that his biggest challenge after returning from Vietnam had been coming to terms with his own callousness.…

— Tucker Elliot

The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam…

— Paul Dickson

I did go to Vietnam in 2000 as a kind of pilgrimage and to feel my generation was very much a part…

— Anne Waldman

They say actually every time I enter the ring, in a way, I'm going to the war. They say to me daily,…

— Muhammad Ali

The campaign for the White House is heating up with John Kerry taking heat for throwing his Vietnam medals away, getting a…

— David Letterman

We had much more imagery from Vietnam war. The media was not controlled. The storyline, the master narrative was not controlled. I…

— Anne Waldman

First, there are some of my readers who only read Hap and Leonard, not the other stuff, and some who don't read…

— Joe R. Lansdale

Some 30 years later I found myself back here again [in Vietnam] on what was to be a short visit that lasted…

— Doug Rice

It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia…

— John Negroponte

we ought to realize by now (see Korea, see Vietnam, see Afghanistan, see Iraq, see Iran) that deploying the US military, or…

— Rachel Maddow

Since the advent of the atomic bomb, the United States has always needed two kinds of enemies. On one level, it has…

— Michael Ruppert

When John Kennedy was assassinated I was twenty-three, a stockbroker on Wall Street and married, and I never ever thought that politics…

— Barbara Boxer

If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life - you might want to…

— Bill Ayers

Ho Chi Minh was well aware that the enemy possessed more firepower than did his own forces, and sought to use what…

— William J. Duiker

Now we are talking about concluding a free trade agreement between the Eurasian Economic Council, recently established in the post-Soviet space, and…

— Vladimir Putin

The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues…

— Danny Glover

“The United States became engaged in hostilities with North Vietnam on November 1, 1955, when President Eisenhower deployed the Military Assistance Advisory…

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba