I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I… — Burt Rutan 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
When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Having gone through the civil rights struggle, having gone through the anti-Vietnam War struggle, by the time I was in my 20s,… — Paul Solman Copy Share Image
The greatest contribution Vietnam is making-right or wrong is beside the point-is that it is developing an ability in the United States… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
During the fifties, for example, the American character appeared with someconsistency that became a model of manhood adopted by many men: the… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“Government By The Industry, For The Industry Vice President George Bush sat in his chair across from four Monsanto executives. They had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“It struck me that such analyses had it backward. It’s the American public for whom the Iraq War is often no more… — Evan Wright Copy Share Image
Eisenhower managed to begin the Vietnam war by not following his normal instinct of staying out of mischief. In his memoirs, he… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The elites hate to acknowledge it, but when large numbers of ordinary people are moved to action, it changes the narrow political… — Dean Baker Copy Share Image
“One might think that as a country almost always involved in a military operation of one kind or another, the United States… — Beth Linker Copy Share Image
Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their… — Jackson Katz Copy Share Image
America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
What can one say about a country where a museum of science in a great city can feature an exhibit in which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My solution to the problem would be to tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] frankly that they've got to draw in their horns… — Curtis LeMay Copy Share Image
In 1978, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act after hearings exposed the F.B.I.'s egregious practice of illegally spying on civil rights… — Asha Rangappa Copy Share Image
The Vietnam War ended because of the campus situation. And so many other injustices have been corrected in the World today only… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was… — Mort Walker Copy Share Image
I was 20, and my reality was that people either went to college full-time, or they were draftable. The dear friends that… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
I went to Vietnam during the Vietnam War to visit all the troops. We would fly into a hospital and serve mess… — Vicki Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The incident plaguing him on this very night, did not have any relation to the jungles, the killing fields, the faces of… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image
When the Vietnam war began I was nuts. I was wearing bell-bottomed pants and let my hair grow. I looked like an… — Ed ONeill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“We live in the post-trash, man. It'll be a real short eon. Down in the ectoplasmic circuitry where humanity's leaders are all… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
We had much more imagery from Vietnam war. The media was not controlled. The storyline, the master narrative was not controlled. I… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people… — Diane Wakoski 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
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I'm a child of the '60s, I came of age then. I went to a couple of demonstrations, and then in the… — Simi Linton Copy Share Image
Once upon a time our traditional goal in war and can anyone doubt that we are at war? - was victory. Once… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try… — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
I used to say, 'Mad' takes on both sides.' We even used to rake the hippies over the coals. They were protesting… — Al Feldstein 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 him from service during his draft-eligible years.” quote by Charlie Savage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fce/charlie-savage-69281_chicken-hawks_in-all-the-future-secretary-of-defense-a_9974.jpg)
![“Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the other. All of that has disappeared thanks to Lyndon Johnson.” quote by John Kenneth Galbraith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b4d/john-kenneth-galbraith-643_bus_those-days-of-the-vietnam-war-you-couldn_571505.jpg)
![“My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" and "Man in Black"). He protested the Vietnam War, but he went to perform for the troops with bombs dropping all around him. He had…” quote by Rosanne Cash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/14b/rosanne-cash-7972_anti-war_my-dad-johnny-cash-went-to-the-richard-n_2919962.jpg)
![“My solution to the problem would be to tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power - not with ground…” quote by Curtis LeMay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bb0/curtis-lemay-23330_age_my-solution-to-the-problem-would-be-to-t_1377007.jpg)
![“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 and what we told ourselves we'd had to do. We had a majority. We were against the war and this created a crisis for democracy and a crisis for the antiwar movement.” quote by Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6f5/bill-ayers-1848_antiwar_the-vietnam-war-s-gone-on-for-three-year_2934124.jpg)
