Vietnam Quotes · Page 9

I'd love to go to Indonesia, Bali, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Cambodia.

— Tamzin Outhwaite

“Get in, get out, and nobody gets hurt, as Uncle Harlan always said, something he picked up in Vietnam.”

— Christopher Moore

Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there.

— Max Cleland

My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.

— Madeleine Albright

Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam.

— Tom Hayden

In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising.

— James Rosen

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

— Bill Ayers

My journalistic heroes are all the guys like Peter Arnett of Vietnam, and my style in journalism is you got to stand…

— Johnny Colt

I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as…

— Oliver Stone

When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.

— Howard Zinn

John Kerry gave the enemy for free what I and many of my comrades in North Vietnam in the prison camps took…

— Paul Galanti

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

There's such a connection between Vietnam and America, but it should be one of friendship. Not bitterness. Not enemies.

— Phan Thi Kim Phuc

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of…

— Oliver North

Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

— Karl Hess

President Bush's campaign is now attacking John Kerry for throwing away some of his medals to protest the Vietnam War. Bush did…

— Jay Leno

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in…

— George Wald

I would caution anyone who thinks the solution is to get out to realize that Iraq will be our problem, whether we're…

— George Packer

Now you may like the images of long-haired hippies running in the streets throwing tear gas canisters, but we didn't end the…

— Bill Ayers

“Lying half-asleep in his embrace, I looked up and saw on his face the same expression I saw on countless lonely faces…

— Kien Nguyen

Belize suits me because I'm active and I like diving. I learnt when I was 18, in Thailand, and I have dived…

— Georgina Chapman

World War II is smothered in sentimentality and nostalgia. What's interesting about Vietnam is that sentimentality is just not there, so you're…

— Ken Burns

Politicians had always viewed environmental issues as narrow things of no great political consequence. Sort of NIMBY issues. A big part of…

— Denis Hayes

We were very excited and we brought speakers in – then it so happened that there was a marine recruiter in the…

— Bill Ayers

“I detested their blind, thoughtless, automatic acquiescence to it all, their simpleminded patriotism, their prideful ignorance, their love-it-or-leave-it platitudes, how they were…

— Tim O'Brien

The U.S. directed the war against South Vietnam. There was a political settlement in 1954. But in the late '50's the United…

— Noam Chomsky

Until you have looked in depth at the system and found out where women in Egypt are not being cut through female…

— Duncan Green

“From the perspective of nearly half a century, the Battle of Hue and the entire Vietnam War seem a tragic and meaningless…

— Mark Bowden

“What I saw in Washington that October were a lot of Americans who were genuinely dismayed by what their country was doing…

— John Irving

I am sure that the experience of growing up in the heart of the working class and learning from my parents, and…

— Michael Yates

If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam…

— John Pilger

With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on.

— Bob Schieffer

To be sure, no one will miss such by-products of the Cold War as the Korean and Vietnam conflicts.

— John Mearsheimer

My father served in Vietnam - the respect I have for the Navy is profound.

— Eric Dane

Vietnam and India are not just special friends; we also have a similar economic vision and approach.

— Ram Nath Kovind

This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart.

— Frank Church

Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.

— Richard M. Nixon

From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism.

— Nguyen Cao Ky

Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.

— Myra MacPherson