Vietnam Quotes · Page 7

A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys.

— Robin Williams

The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

My father made many narrow escapes during his time in Vietnam.

— Harris Faulkner

I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.

— Oliver Stone

It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

— Salman Rushdie

“As home to over 15 million smokers, Vietnam is one of the 15 top consumers of tobacco in the world.”

— Anonymous

My dad is a Marine and was very close to going to Vietnam, but he did not.

— Chipper Jones

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

— John F. Kennedy

The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm…

— Robert Hass

I went to Ft Bragg and learned that Delta was indeed gearing up for the rescue. Still I was concerned the Reagan…

— Bo Gritz

[People] are tired of being ripped off by every single country that does business with us. Whether it's China, Japan, Mexico, Vietnam.

— Donald Trump

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam…

— Charles de Gaulle

Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up…

— Karl Hess

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young…

— Spiro T. Agnew

The vast silence of Buddha overtakes and overrules the oncoming roar of tragic life that fills alleys and avenues; it blocks the…

— Denise Levertov

I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I…

— Radhanath Swami

In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking…

— Martin Jacques

The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi…

— William Shawcross

Eisenhower managed to begin the Vietnam war by not following his normal instinct of staying out of mischief. In his memoirs, he…

— Gore Vidal

Our young men in Vietnam have not only acquitted themselves in an outstanding manner during combat operations, but they also have been…

— Lewis William Walt

For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an…

— Annia Ciezadlo

“Although Nixon stepped up military pressure by bombing heavily and greatly expanding South Vietnamese forces, the enemy did not bend. Nor did…

— James T. Patterson

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

I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“I didn't hurt anymore, didn't feel like hiding anymore, wasn't scared anymore. Because I wasn't anything anymore. Not anything I love or…

— David James Duncan

“Vietnam is still, as it was thirty years ago, a poor country of rice paddy farms and sandy harbors, where fishermen cast…

— Susan O'Neill

“The fourteen-man snake moved in spasms. . . Their eyes flickered rapidly back and forth as they tried to look in all…

— Karl Marlantes

In every major war we have fought in the 19th and 20th centuries. Americans have been asked to pay higher taxes -…

— Robert Hormats

One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam…

— Noam Chomsky

“I thought, Dad. Could I go to Vietnam for you? Dad, I could do it. I could do it for you. I…

— Tucker Elliot

I believe the liberal international order is under assault from Russia, and from other authoritarian regimes, and it is being questioned from…

— Daniel Fried

“I took the thin magazine from the pouch in front of me and began to thumb through it. I felt self-conscious, as…

— Walter Dean Myers

If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.

— Shane Smith

A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.

— Henry Rollins

My first time overseas was taking 10,000 tons of beer to Vietnam.

— John F. Kelly

I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.

— Oliver North

“If they didn't want to know, they shouldn't have asked.”

— James Webb

This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.

— Hanoi Hannah

There are some similarities, of course (between Iraq and Vietnam). Death is terrible.

— George W. Bush

Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.

— Willie Stargell