Vietnam Quotes · Page 8

I was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War.

— Lawrence Wright

If John McCain were really a war hero he would've won Vietnam.

— Zach Braff

India and Vietnam are old civilizations. We have ancient cultural and spiritual connections.

— Ram Nath Kovind

To be sure, no one will miss such by-products of the Cold War as the Korean and Vietnam conflicts.

— John Mearsheimer

My father served in Vietnam - the respect I have for the Navy is profound.

— Eric Dane

Vietnam and India are not just special friends; we also have a similar economic vision and approach.

— Ram Nath Kovind

Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.

— Richard M. Nixon

This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart.

— Frank Church

During the Democratic presidential debate Howard Dean started off by apologizing to the crowd for having a cold. Then John Kerry apologized…

— Conan O'Brien

Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they…

— Nat Hentoff

And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in…

— Wilfred Burchett

The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse…

— Mike Gravel

It would be good for the workers in Vietnam even as it helps make sure that they're not undercutting competition here in…

— Barack Obama

The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle.

— Walter Cronkite

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act…

— Noam Chomsky

When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.

— William Westmoreland

Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their…

— Jackson Katz

America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the…

— Martha Gellhorn

President Bush's campaign is now attacking John Kerry for throwing away some of his medals to protest the Vietnam War. Bush did…

— Jay Leno

Among the events of John McCain's five-and-a-half years of imprisonment and torture in North Vietnam, probably the most heroic, and surely the…

— Bret Stephens

I actually looked up in my journal trying to figure out some dates and, in January 1991, America is about to go…

— Ian MacKaye

We took a family trip to Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia over Christmas and New Year's. Three weeks was a long time, but…

— Prince Fielder

I did not feel - in President [J.F.] Kennedy's words - that we could win the war for [the government in Saigon].…

— William J. Duiker

First, there are some of my readers who only read Hap and Leonard, not the other stuff, and some who don't read…

— Joe R. Lansdale

Until you have looked in depth at the system and found out where women in Egypt are not being cut through female…

— Duncan Green

I am sure that the experience of growing up in the heart of the working class and learning from my parents, and…

— Michael Yates

If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam…

— John Pilger

“From the perspective of nearly half a century, the Battle of Hue and the entire Vietnam War seem a tragic and meaningless…

— Mark Bowden

“What I saw in Washington that October were a lot of Americans who were genuinely dismayed by what their country was doing…

— John Irving

My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept…

— Anonymous

Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or…

— Nicholas Stern

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

From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism.

— Nguyen Cao Ky

Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.

— Myra MacPherson

In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising.

— James Rosen

Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam.

— Tom Hayden

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

— Bill Ayers

With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on.

— Bob Schieffer

I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

— Ed Bradley

My dad was a civil rights lawyer, and he was actually defending conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War.

— Cecile Richards