We could not bring democracy to South Vietnam at a cost that we were willing to accept. So it was a disaster.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The French repulsed wave after wave of frontal attacks at Dien Bien Phu. The 1968 Tet offensive against the U.S. was a… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“In all of my years doing this job, I have never given the drug to anyone over three months pregnant; not once,… — Kien Nguyen Copy Share Image
Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I… — Breyten Breytenbach Copy Share Image
This nation should be less worried about putting the Vietnam syndrome behind us than restarting the World War II victory syndrome that… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Ninety-five percent of women's experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive... women didn't go… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
I was always convinced that decent people in the case of Vietnam, highly intelligent, decent people, got us involved because they had… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put… — Larry David Copy Share Image
“a lot of lives in Vietnam were wasted by the folks driving those big desks in Washington. It’s easy to make a… — Ed Kugler Copy Share Image
One big, glaring difference I can think of between Iraq and Vietnam is the news coverage. During the Vietnam War era, you… — Mark Boal Copy Share Image
Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did… — Jeff Gannon Copy Share Image
Numbers have dehumanized us. Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam. Instead of vomiting, we reach for the… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
Vietnam's transformation - like that of so many nations - has been supported and even accelerated by an international, rules-based order dedicated… — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
“We were at the home base of the holy man who encouraged presidents to drop bombs on poor Cockroaches in far-off villages… — Oscar Zeta Acosta Copy Share Image
It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men… — Vida Blue Copy Share Image
I felt only a conservative president could bring peace in Vietnam 'cause he wouldn't be accused of being soft on communism. — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam,… — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
“I think we are, by our own closed-door admissions, a fractious untrusting tribe unified only because we are besieged by larger forces.” — Andrew X. Pham Copy Share Image
Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders… — Bob Gunton Copy Share Image
Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
Many of the ideas of Sun Tzu and Mao Zedong came naturally to the young Ho Chi Minh, who would probably have… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
My own people, the South Vietnamese, had been bombing trade routes used by the Viet Cong rebels. I had not been targeted,… — Phan Thi Kim Phuc Copy Share Image
“There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the… — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate. — Nguyen Cao Ky Copy Share Image
My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian… — Justin Sane Copy Share Image
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
The genius of America's endless war machine is that, learning from the unpleasantness of the Vietnam war protests, it has rendered the… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Canada should always open its doors to those who are oppressed or in cases of emergency. When Canada offered refuge to 50,000… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more… — Alexander Haig Copy Share Image
I think the tendency is for people to try to blame everything on TV, the Pill or Vietnam, just because that's the… — Mike Connors Copy Share Image
I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations. — Nguyen Cao Ky Copy Share Image
On my discharge, I had the challenge of putting my life back together but Vietnam stuck in the inner recesses of my… — Doug Rice Copy Share Image
