With respect to where we are now, we have a voluntary army. And if we ever go back to conscription I hope… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
One-hundred facts about Vietnam and we studied the fact sheet and got in to these arguments and it was fantastic, and I… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Men, also, have in them enormous capacities that they have to repress and fear in themselves, living up to this obsolete and… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism,… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
It doesn t require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is… — Arthur Goldberg Copy Share Image
They [politicians] have defined the war simply in terms of the detonation of explosives. When you look at the broader picture, America… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
My idea was that the role of the special forces were to train Vietnamese to behave as guerrillas, harassing the supply lines… — Roger Hilsman Copy Share Image
I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War's harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
Lyndon Johnson is not a comfortable model for President Obama to imitate. He is an all-but-forgotten president - pilloried for the failed… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
If you get a President (Hillary) Clinton, you might well find, just as after Vietnam, that there is a retraction from Iraq… — John Bolton 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
East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mr. McCain fought in Vietnam. I think that he has enough blood of peaceful citizens on his hands. It must be impossible… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I would think somebody like Jane Fonda and her idiot husband would be terribly ashamed and saddened that they were a part… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
What really happened in Vietnam was- all these things are away games for the American military. We're not on our home turf,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to… — Raul Grijalva Copy Share Image
I think that the war on drugs is domestic Vietnam. And didn't we learn from Vietnam that, at a certain point in… — Kurt Schmoke 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
The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
On many occasions in the late 1950s and 1960s, [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas were apparently ignored by those who felt that his… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
People that spend time in a foxhole - they're never going to find that relationship anywhere else again... Everything else pales next… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
When I began writing poems, it was in the late 60s and early 70s when the literary and cultural atmosphere was very… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Before we put an American in harm's way, tell us why. No one wants to see the region descend into further chaos.… — Xavier Becerra Copy Share Image
The responsibility for the risks we posed to others in some of our most extreme actions in those underground years never leaves… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the main reason America cannot 'get over' its war with Viet Nam is that Americans cannot fit what happened into its… — Trin Yarborough Copy Share Image
South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As… — Nguyen Cao Ky Copy Share Image
Australia is this former British colony at the foot of Asia. We've been involved - we've been in lockstep with America in… — Richard Glover Copy Share Image
“Was your old man in the war?" "He was in the air force. He built runways." "The fucking air farce. He ever… — Anthony Swofford Copy Share Image
The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The Vietnam War was taking place, which was raising all sorts of questions in the United States, and it was forcing Asian-Americans… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
'Flappy Bird' was one of those phenomena. If we could all build one now, we would. Probably a bunch of us are… — Chris DeWolfe Copy Share Image
General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
I volunteered 35 years ago to go to Vietnam and the guy I was running against got out of going to Vietnam… — Max Cleland Copy Share Image
Could Afghanistan become another Vietnam? Is the United States facing another stalemate on the other side of the world? Premature the questions… — R. W. Apple Copy Share Image
As mayor, I've traveled to China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and Mexico to meet with heads of state and business leaders to… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
“General Lawton Collins, a top American adviser, said that the United States must "put the squeeze on the French to get them… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
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![“They [politicians] have defined the war simply in terms of the detonation of explosives. When you look at the broader picture, America is mired in two wars that we're losing at the moment. We have a political environment that is as poisonous as anything I've seen, at least since the end of Vietnam.” quote by Michael Scheuer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e74/michael-scheuer-7471_america_they-politicians-have-defined-the-war-si_1405695.jpg)
![“Mr. McCain fought in Vietnam. I think that he has enough blood of peaceful citizens on his hands. It must be impossible for him to live without these disgusting scenes anymore. Mr. McCain was captured and they kept him not just in prison, but in a pit for several years. Anyone [in his place] would…” quote by Vladimir Putin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/404/vladimir-putin-261_blood_mr-mccain-fought-in-vietnam-i-think-that_434321.jpg)
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