Vietnam Quotes · Page 8

'Vietnam Veedu' is nothing if you compare Nagesh's other works. He is the definition of humor in India.

— Y. G. Mahendran

You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.

— James Taylor

Obama avoided the Vietnam draft with a letter from his family doctor diagnosing him as medically eight.

— Stephen Colbert

If I had that kind of money, I wouldn't come to Vietnam, I'd send for it.

— Bob Hope

I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate.

— David Cross

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.

— Jim Webb

I'm old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.

— Waylon Jennings

McCain fought in Vietnam - I think that he has enough civilian blood on his hands.

— Vladimir Putin

“He [Harry Bosch] defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to…

— Michael Connelly

Ho Chi Minh preferred to use the tactics of negotiation and compromise, primarily because of his recognition that the revolutionary movement was…

— William J. Duiker

Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam. These events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end…

— Gerald R. Ford

Richard Dreyfuss, when we were doing 'American Graffiti,' was pumping me to vote for McGovern. But I think I wound up going…

— Ron Howard

Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out…

— Wilfred Burchett

If you listen to [Donald] Trump, he's going to make sure we get our jobs back from Mexico, and jobs back from…

— Sue Lowden

Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says "Bad war, good soldier." Only now are Americans beginning…

— Max Cleland

The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of…

— Ronald Reagan

Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their…

— Jackson Katz

America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the…

— Martha Gellhorn

Vietnam is no longer a war, it's a country. I think that that's very important to understand. And the Vietnamese - last…

— Michael W. Michalak

For educated Americans like Joseph Ellis, Vietnam is a special hang-up. I am an Englishman of exactly the Vietnam generation, a couple…

— Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Among the events of John McCain's five-and-a-half years of imprisonment and torture in North Vietnam, probably the most heroic, and surely the…

— Bret Stephens

I actually looked up in my journal trying to figure out some dates and, in January 1991, America is about to go…

— Ian MacKaye

I did not feel - in President [J.F.] Kennedy's words - that we could win the war for [the government in Saigon].…

— William J. Duiker

We took a family trip to Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia over Christmas and New Year's. Three weeks was a long time, but…

— Prince Fielder

“As a Nobel Peace laureate, I, like most people, agonize over the use of force. But when it comes to rescuing an…

— Jose Ramos-Horta

“One of the most frustrating aspects of the Vietnam war from the Army's point of view is that as far as logistics…

— Anonymous

We, the people, gave the marching orders to our democratically-elected officials and instructed them. We wanted out of Vietnam and we got…

— Jill Stein

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

“The truth was that history—and in Indochina we were on the wrong side of it—was a hard taskmaster and from the early…

— David Halberstam

When was the last time the United States won a war? You know, it lost in Vietnam. It's lost in Afghanistan. It's…

— Arundhati Roy

When people denounced [former Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad for rejecting and criminalizing homosexuality, it should be remembered that was true of the…

— Noam Chomsky

Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or…

— Nicholas Stern

By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.

— Nguyen Cao Ky

I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.

— Gary Sinise

I was born in Vietnam, and I was adopted by an Irish lady and a Hungarian man, and then I moved to…

— Lana Condor

Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam.

— Dan Jenkins

If John McCain were really a war hero he would've won Vietnam.

— Zach Braff

I was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War.

— Lawrence Wright

India and Vietnam are old civilizations. We have ancient cultural and spiritual connections.

— Ram Nath Kovind

I am of the Vietnam generation; therefore, I feel mistrustful of the military.

— John Densmore