Vietnam Quotes · Page 11

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

— Al Franken

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

— Michael Herr

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

— Walter Cronkite

We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

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

— Cecile Richards

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

— Michael Dirda

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

— Ed Bradley

If I had that kind of money, I wouldn't come to Vietnam, I'd send for it.

— Bob Hope

I was in the Army in the 1960s. I didn't go to Vietnam. I went to Germany, where I drank beer. But…

— John Prine

In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in…

— Anna Louise Strong

I'm working on this fashion line that's all inspired by Vietnam. I'm Vietnamese so a lot of the clothes are inspired by…

— Tyga

[John F. Kennedy] kept a diary and in the White House dictated his thoughts. He felt real guilt at the killing of…

— Chris Matthews

The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in…

— Julian Assange

Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but…

— Donald Sutherland

I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood…

— Don DeLillo

The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.

— Noam Chomsky

Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are…

— Anonymous

During Richard Nixon’s first term, when I served as secretary of defense, we withdrew U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the…

— Melvin Laird

A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to…

— Tariq Ali

“One thing that became very clear during my own war service is that those who are actively taking part in war-like activities…

— Michael G. Kramer

I deplore this kind of politics. I think the ad is dishonest and dishonorable. As it is, none of these individuals served…

— John McCain

For the past several years, I've been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on…

— Joe Klein

I think that 20 years ago, not too many people would imagine a meeting - interesting meeting, a substantive meeting between the…

— Nguyen Phu Trong

I joined the People's Armed Forces in 1961 to 1984, and I was also a soldier in the southern battle of Vietnam…

— Nguyen Tan Dung

No liberal newspaper ever talked about the invasion of Vietnam; they talked about the defense of Vietnam. And then they were saying,…

— Noam Chomsky

The visa thing can be an issue, if you're going to work for someone here make sure they will help you with…

— Doug Rice

Our tragedy today is not just that millions of people who called themselves communist or socialist were physically liquidated in Vietnam, Indonesia,…

— Arundhati Roy

“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

“In the emergency of growing up, we all need heroes. But the father I grew up with was no hero to me,…

— Tom Bissell

If [Ho Chi Minh] had had carte blanche over his movement, would the results of the war have been different? That is…

— William J. Duiker

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

— Nat Hentoff

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

Obama avoided the Vietnam draft with a letter from his family doctor diagnosing him as medically eight.

— Stephen Colbert

I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate.

— David Cross

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.

— Jim Webb

I'm old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.

— Waylon Jennings

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

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

— Conor Lamb

You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.

— James Taylor