Vietnam Quotes · Page 6

Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.

— Jerry Stiller

God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam.

— Muqtada al Sadr

The impact of the Vietnam War on TV made everyone recognize the importance of visual media.

— Mark Kurlansky

Enough is enough. This is how we get started in Vietnam.

— Charles Rangel

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

— Barry Goldwater

Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself.

— Bob Dylan

“I don't have anything to give you, except to show you a way to better yourself.”

— Kien Nguyen

“On November 12, 1965, we flew into the Ia Drang Valley of the Central Highlands and began our search.”

— Anonymous

Who cares what entertainers on the air think about international affairs? Who would want to hear me about Vietnam? They can hear…

— Johnny Carson

During my first tour of Vietnam, John Steinbeck and his wife were there and we had Christmas dinner together.

— Joey Heatherton

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

— Anonymous

[After Vietnam] the type of interventions that are carried out are designed so as not to elicit public reactions.

— Noam Chomsky

I'm a Vietnam veteran. I was here when there was no public support, not just for the effort in Vietnam, for the…

— Michael Mullen

Some men are searching for the Holy Grail, but there ain't nothing sweeter than riding the rail. Pregnant women and Vietnam vets,…

— Tom Waits

In Hue, Vietnam, we had savory rice pancakes with crumbled shrimp and pork rinds. I've still never had a version as good.

— Ali Wong

[ Vietnam War] brought the people together and made the '60s like they were. The youth were very unified against the status…

— Neil Young

Philip Jones Griffith documented the Vietnam War, and through his images that were published in Time Life Magazine, it showed me the…

— Jamel Shabazz

I'll always have the memories of guys I lost in Vietnam. And I've lost friends since the war, but I'll always have…

— Michael E. Thornton

With 450,000 U. S. troops now in Vietnam, it is time that Congress decided whether or not to declare a state of…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American…

— Madeleine Albright

[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the…

— Ernest Hemingway

During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less…

— Al Franken

'These boat people,' says the government of Hong Kong, 'they all want to go to America.' Well, I swear I don't know…

— Linda Ellerbee

Pictures and reminders fill my office. Samuel Cochran, B. H. Hodges, my parents, my wife, my brother and sisters, my fellow Marines…

— Jim Webb

“So many of the professional foreign policy establishment, and so many of their hangers-on among the lumpen academics and journalists, had become…

— Christopher Hitchens

A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We are not a warlike people. Nor is our history filled with tales of aggressive adventures and imperialism, which might come as…

— Ronald Reagan

“The only thing I knew for sure is I hadn’t slept in ten years. Not really. I’d been fighting my own monster…

— Tucker Elliot

“It was radicals like you and your father that hijacked your faith, hijacked a few planes, and made thousands of children orphans…

— Tucker Elliot

It is time to acknowledge the extraordinary sacrifice of all of our veterans. While many Massachusetts soldiers served our nation in a…

— Mitt Romney

I think the Republicans and conservatives generally were alienated by America's unsuccessful effort in Vietnam, and a lot of them, as Henry…

— William J. Clinton

I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.

— Andrea Mitchell

Can you imagine in 1968 some band being like, "Vietnam is the place to be!"

— Josh Jones

I left the Democratic Party basically on issues of national security during the end of the Vietnam War.

— Jim Webb

When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

— Fred Wilson

The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq.

— Mohammed Aldouri

My father fought alongside Aussie and U.S. soldiers in the Vietnam War.

— Anh Do

“ You be America, alien invaders, and we'll be Vietnam. And the Others go, Yeah, okay, right. ”

— Rick Yancey