Vietnam Quotes · Page 3

My father was a Vietnam vet, and he was Green Beret.

— James Ransone

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

— Stephen Ambrose

Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.

— John Pilger

I'm from the Vietnam generation.

— John Densmore

Iraq was a war of choice, like Vietnam.

— Chuck Hagel

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

— Michael Herr

“We the People - shelling the Vietcong”

— Allen Ginsberg

“Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.”

— Don DeLillo

A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.

— Henry Rollins

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

— John F. Kennedy

My dad is a Marine and was very close to going to Vietnam, but he did not.

— Chipper Jones

I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.

— Oliver Stone

It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

— Salman Rushdie

The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys.

— Robin Williams

“Specifically, Vietnam's leadership has been characterized by a stalemate among its top leaders,”

— Anonymous

I'm a child of the '60s, I came of age then. I went to a couple of demonstrations, and then in the…

— Simi Linton

I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.

— Robert Barry

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

— Bruce Jackson

You are going to have a situation where India and the United States, Vietnam and U.S., India-Japan, Australia-U.S. are all going to…

— John Mearsheimer

[Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly…

— Oscar Levant

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the…

— Ronald Reagan

Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient…

— Stephen Ambrose

Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates…

— R. Lee Ermey

What some people argue is that Vietnam stands for the proposition that there's no role for American power anywhere on earth. I…

— Walter F. Mondale

I think most of us secretly know – and those of us at the radical middle are inclined to say – that…

— Mark Satin

Since I was a kid. I had this series by Ballantine Books about the history of World Wars I and II. In…

— George Packer

I know of no scholar more dedicated to bringing a thorough and accurate portrayal of America's involvement in Vietnam than Mark Moyar.…

— Jim Webb

So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people…

— Diane Wakoski

History of America, Part I (1776-1966): Declaration of Independence, Constitutional Convention, Louisiana Purchase, Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I, Great Depression, New…

— Norman Chad

We were against the war in Vietnam and for voter registration and social issues. Everybody has their choices, and the obligation of…

— Tom Smothers

Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans…

— Barbara Bush

“The fourteen-man snake moved in spasms. . . Their eyes flickered rapidly back and forth as they tried to look in all…

— Karl Marlantes

And the reason that I was one of the first, not one of the last to be in opposition to the TPP…

— Bernie Sanders

“I didn't hurt anymore, didn't feel like hiding anymore, wasn't scared anymore. Because I wasn't anything anymore. Not anything I love or…

— David James Duncan

I have looked at public opinion polls in France in the late 1940s and early 1950s during the height of Marshall Plan…

— John Bolton

“Of the things I had not known when I started out, I think the most important was the degree to which the…

— David Halberstam

There's another aspect about the Seventies. Blazing Saddles, as wonderful as it was, sort of hurt the Western. It made such fun…

— Quentin Tarantino

“As to the efficacy of the policy recommended by Rostow, it speaks for itself: no country, once underdeveloped, ever managed to develop…

— André Gunder Frank

Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end…

— Unita Blackwell