No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the… — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
“I think we are, by our own closed-door admissions, a fractious untrusting tribe unified only because we are besieged by larger forces.” — Andrew X. Pham Copy Share Image
Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders… — Bob Gunton Copy Share Image
My own people, the South Vietnamese, had been bombing trade routes used by the Viet Cong rebels. I had not been targeted,… — Phan Thi Kim Phuc Copy Share Image
“There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Many of the ideas of Sun Tzu and Mao Zedong came naturally to the young Ho Chi Minh, who would probably have… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
“We obviously don’t live in a perfect world. If we did, then my dad would never have volunteered for Vietnam so he… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
When we do work in places like China and Vietnam, research tends to be really effective as a way of getting change,… — Duncan Green 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
After visits to several Communist countries (USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Slovenia, East Germany, Vietnam, China, Cuba), I feel strongly that most "revolutionary" types… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
So if you look at the writings of intellectuals, there are two kinds. One said, l"Look, if we fought harder we could… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the longer term, I hope that as Vietnam evolves into a more prosperous society with active ties to the international marketplace,… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
I'll always have the memories of guys I lost in Vietnam. And I've lost friends since the war, but I'll always have… — Michael E. Thornton Copy Share Image
Philip Jones Griffith documented the Vietnam War, and through his images that were published in Time Life Magazine, it showed me the… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
Vietnam's transformation - like that of so many nations - has been supported and even accelerated by an international, rules-based order dedicated… — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
Ninety-five percent of women's experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive... women didn't go… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam,… — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
“We were at the home base of the holy man who encouraged presidents to drop bombs on poor Cockroaches in far-off villages… — Oscar Zeta Acosta Copy Share Image
I felt only a conservative president could bring peace in Vietnam 'cause he wouldn't be accused of being soft on communism. — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men… — Vida Blue Copy Share Image
With 450,000 U. S. troops now in Vietnam, it is time that Congress decided whether or not to declare a state of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
In the end, many of his more militant colleagues began to feel that [Ho Chi Minh's] tendency to compromise, and his reluctance… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
If Recep Tayyip Erdogan cannot placate ISIS, how are we ever gonna be able to? And placate is clearly what John Kerry,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
CBS News on Tuesday had Bob Kerrey in a Vietnam scandal, Senator Bob Torricelli in a donor scandal and Arnold Schwarzenegger in… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war… — Larry Hagman Copy Share Image
Path To War was the last thing that John Frankenheimer directed, I think, before he died. I'm a huge U.S. history buff,… — Peter Jacobson Copy Share Image
We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Well, this movie I've been working on for a while. I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
'These boat people,' says the government of Hong Kong, 'they all want to go to America.' Well, I swear I don't know… — Linda Ellerbee Copy Share Image
Pictures and reminders fill my office. Samuel Cochran, B. H. Hodges, my parents, my wife, my brother and sisters, my fellow Marines… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
![“[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)” quote by Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a49/ernest-hemingway-83_bad-luck_robert-capa-he-was-a-good-friend-and-a-g_2920608.jpg)
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