Vietnam Quotes · Page 9

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

It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate,

— Walter Cronkite

“for years now there had been no country here but the war.”

— Michael Herr

I am shocked that we seemed to have learned nothing, absolutely nothing, from Vietnam.

— Michael Dirda

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

I saw a large, red dried swath that I immediately identified clearly as blood. I covered the war in Vietnam. I saw…

— Sam Donaldson

You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam.

— Richard M. Nixon

The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was…

— Bruce Springsteen

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

We had much more imagery from Vietnam war. The media was not controlled. The storyline, the master narrative was not controlled. I…

— Anne Waldman

Some 30 years later I found myself back here again [in Vietnam] on what was to be a short visit that lasted…

— Doug Rice

They say actually every time I enter the ring, in a way, I'm going to the war. They say to me daily,…

— Muhammad Ali

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

“I detested their blind, thoughtless, automatic acquiescence to it all, their simpleminded patriotism, their prideful ignorance, their love-it-or-leave-it platitudes, how they were…

— Tim O'Brien

Fathers are always so proud the first time they see their sons in uniform," she said. "I know Big John Karpinski was,"…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I was very much against the Vietnam War, and Max Askeli was visiting Lyndon Johnson in the White House cheering him on,…

— Nat Hentoff

“The American soldiers were brave, but courage is not enough. David did not kill Goliath just because he was brave. He looked…

— Vo Nguyen Giap

“Try as U.S. officials might to get him to broaden his government, to show more sensitivity to the needs of his people,…

— Fredrik Logevall

We ended the war in Vietnam, and brought the troops home.

— Jill Stein

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.

— J. William Fulbright

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

— Al Franken

My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

— Francis Ford Coppola

Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.

— Hanoi Hannah

This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.

— Paul Begala

Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War)

— Paul Harvey