Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam seems to… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
I believe that when you know something's going wrong, you make it right. That's what I learned in Vietnam. When I came… — Senator John Kerry Copy Share Image
The vast silence of Buddha overtakes and overrules the oncoming roar of tragic life that fills alleys and avenues; it blocks the… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
As for those deserters, malcontents, radicals, incendiaries, the civil and uncivil disobedients among the young, SDS, PLP, Weathermen I and Weathermen II,… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
If, when the chips are down, the worlds most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant,… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Vietnam, really more accurately, Laos, was almost after Berlin the top problem at the beginning of the Kennedy Administration in '61, foreign… — McGeorge Bundy Copy Share Image
The imperialistic or capitalistic system occupies areas. It occupies Vietnam now. They occupy them by sending soldiers there, by sending policeman there.… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone. — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midshipmen in my Naval Academy… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking. It is… — Francis Spellman Copy Share Image
Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
My father left us when I was 10, so I had to make enough money for us to be able to live… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
I am not haunted by memories of Vietnam. But I must admit I never thought we would again witness in my lifetime… — John McCain Copy Share Image
I was very much against the Vietnam War, and Max Askeli was visiting Lyndon Johnson in the White House cheering him on,… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I was less angry at [Carl] Armstrong, though I was angry at the people who came to his trial: Dan Ellsberg, who… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda.… — Jonathan Schell 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
Since the advent of the atomic bomb, the United States has always needed two kinds of enemies. On one level, it has… — Michael Ruppert Copy Share Image
People look at things differently. Imagine going to a village in Southern Sudan and try to explain to someone there the concept… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says "Bad war, good soldier." Only now are Americans beginning… — Max Cleland Copy Share Image