A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
“In all, the future secretary of defense and wartime vice president[, Dick Cheney,] would receive five deferments during the Vietnam War, protecting… — Charlie Savage Copy Share Image
I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
With respect to where we are now, we have a voluntary army. And if we ever go back to conscription I hope… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Being a correspondent at the Vietnam war for me was about exposing myself to danger but it wasn't completely self-serving. I felt… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War… — Andrea Mitchell Copy Share Image
[General Curtis] LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side has lost. But what makes it… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
In the sixties, during the Vietnam war, when anarchists and pacifists and socialists, Democrats and Republicans, decent-hearted Americans, all recoiled with horror… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate. — David Cross Copy Share Image
“Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.” — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South… — William Westmoreland Copy Share Image
“I always liked your piety, Jack.” “I’m a lot cuter than the women of your generation,” Betsy said, playing up to Capers… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I didn't see conflict during the Vietnam War, but I did lose close friends. — Michael Buffer Copy Share Image
“It seems like our town has closed down these days leading up to the funeral. Old people still sit on their porches… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Vietnam war will not be over until it ends for everyone. Over four hundred thousand U.S. veterans are still recovering from… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
The White House begun airing their TV commercials to re-elect the president, and the John Kerry campaign is condemning his use of… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
If the Americans do not want to support us anymore, let them go, get out! Let them forget their humanitarian promises! — Nguyen Van Thieu Copy Share Image
My very first venture was a national student magazine to try to campaign against the [Vietnam] War. And so I wanted to… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I want to be sure...that nothing is done on these veterans. Is that understood?...Is the word out? That they are not to… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Take a look at public opinion. About 70 percent of the population, in the polls, said the [Vietnam ] war was fundamentally… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image