Vietnam Quotes · Page 6

The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.

— Marion Barry

I messed up on the Vietnam Special, because I gave it to civilians? Only military men can handle that.

— Si Robertson

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

— Tom Seaver

“ You be America, alien invaders, and we'll be Vietnam. And the Others go, Yeah, okay, right. ”

— Rick Yancey

As Vietnam increasingly opens its doors, it will reap the rewards of progress for its people.

— Antony Blinken

“Instead of relishing life, people merely existed. Such was the case with my family.”

— Kien Nguyen

Vietnam was not a war of choice the United States had to fight. It was clearly not central.

— Richard N. Haass

We have to face up to the fact that five administrations have lied to us about Vietnam.

— David Dellinger

I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as…

— Oliver Stone

When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.

— Howard Zinn

Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out…

— Wilfred Burchett

If you listen to [Donald] Trump, he's going to make sure we get our jobs back from Mexico, and jobs back from…

— Sue Lowden

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

— Anonymous

During my first tour of Vietnam, John Steinbeck and his wife were there and we had Christmas dinner together.

— Joey Heatherton

“Mertins frequently upset his handlers, often selling to countries that were considered, at the very least, anti-American. His relationship with US Intelligence…

— Andrew Feinstein

Philip Jones Griffith documented the Vietnam War, and through his images that were published in Time Life Magazine, it showed me the…

— Jamel Shabazz

I'll always have the memories of guys I lost in Vietnam. And I've lost friends since the war, but I'll always have…

— Michael E. Thornton

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American…

— Madeleine Albright

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in…

— George Wald

I would caution anyone who thinks the solution is to get out to realize that Iraq will be our problem, whether we're…

— George Packer

“Lying half-asleep in his embrace, I looked up and saw on his face the same expression I saw on countless lonely faces…

— Kien Nguyen

Belize suits me because I'm active and I like diving. I learnt when I was 18, in Thailand, and I have dived…

— Georgina Chapman

Now you may like the images of long-haired hippies running in the streets throwing tear gas canisters, but we didn't end the…

— Bill Ayers

Understand that this art has been created by few soldiers in Vietnam to escape or reach: and this is the spirit I'd…

— David Belle

I first became interested in Ho Chi Minh in 1964-1965 while I was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam as…

— William J. Duiker

“Best in Print The Quiet American (Graham Greene) Classic novel set in the 1950s as the French empire is collapsing. The Sorrow…

— Lonely Planet

I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I think the Republicans and conservatives generally were alienated by America's unsuccessful effort in Vietnam, and a lot of them, as Henry…

— William J. Clinton

“One of the most frustrating aspects of the Vietnam war from the Army's point of view is that as far as logistics…

— Anonymous

We, the people, gave the marching orders to our democratically-elected officials and instructed them. We wanted out of Vietnam and we got…

— Jill Stein

“The truth was that history—and in Indochina we were on the wrong side of it—was a hard taskmaster and from the early…

— David Halberstam

You think Vietnam was bad? Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo.

— Tony Snow

Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq.

— Rosanne Cash

I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war.

— Richard M. Nixon

McCain fought in Vietnam - I think that he has enough civilian blood on his hands.

— Vladimir Putin

I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.

— Gary Sinise

The men and women who served during the Vietnam War are often overlooked.

— Conor Lamb

Vietnam is the Liberals' favorite was because America lost

— Ann Coulter

After Vietnam, the Democrats became fundamentally the anti-military as a party.

— Heather Wilson