Vietnam Quotes · Page 36

Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.

— Andrea Mitchell

If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.

— Tom Seaver

My shoulders sagged. Really, is it too much to ask that I be able to come home from a long day of…

— Meg Cabot

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

When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

— Fred Wilson

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

— Tamzin Outhwaite

In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam.…

— Noam Chomsky

Today [ Sun Tzu] ideas are not widely applied, at least among Islamic dissidents, whose profligate use of indiscriminate terrorism appears to…

— William J. Duiker

I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.

— Michael Caine

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

— Unita Blackwell

All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who…

— Michael Herr

I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America…

— Marshall McLuhan

“As a Nobel Peace laureate, I, like most people, agonize over the use of force. But when it comes to rescuing an…

— Jose Ramos-Horta

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

— John F. Kennedy

My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs…

— Rosanne Cash

By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.

— Nguyen Cao Ky

[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the…

— Ernest Hemingway

We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power…

— Duong Van Minh

The [Vietnam] war's gone on for three years. And we'd thought we'd ended it because we'd done exactly what we were told…

— Bill Ayers

What has been adjudicated and established in the wake of Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement is the ability of the press…

— Lowell Bergman

Our young men in Vietnam have not only acquitted themselves in an outstanding manner during combat operations, but they also have been…

— Lewis William Walt

The Philippines and the U.S. have had a strong relationship with each other for a very long time now. We have a…

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

The responsibility for the risks we posed to others in some of our most extreme actions in those underground years never leaves…

— Bill Ayers

“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