Vietnam Quotes · Page 9

The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.

— Michael Caine

Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War)

— Paul Harvey

This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.

— Paul Begala

Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.

— Hanoi Hannah

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

— Hanoi Hannah

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

— Willie Stargell

To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.

— Benjamin Spock

Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose a war.

— Senator John Kerry

The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York…

— H. R. McMaster

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

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

[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

The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military,…

— Eric Alterman

I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home.…

— Marianne Williamson

My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion…

— Walter Dean Myers

I wasn't happy with the outcome in Vietnam. Now, I've never said that, but, you know, I'm getting to an age where…

— Alexander Haig

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

I remember being in Vietnam in my early 20s, at the height of Lonely Planet's fame, and all the travellers would converge…

— Konnie Huq

If you come to work in the Senate, and the morning paper shows that your colleagues in the House have not been…

— Philip Hart

You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out,You take the human being and you twist it all aboutSo scrub my…

— Adrian Mitchell

The people in our country and in America and in all West European countries, they have to gorge and guzzle so that…

— Gudrun Ensslin

I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our…

— Brad Pitt

“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 had the privilege and the honor of chairing the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs. And it is interesting to me, you…

— Bernie Sanders

“It’s no surprise that many later analysts, in judging these and other actions and statements by Diem in the course of 1955,…

— Fredrik Logevall

“I would wish this book could take the form of a plea for everlasting peace, a plea from one who knows... Or…

— Tim O'Brien

Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I think we can end the divisions within the United States. What I think is quite clear is that we can work…

— Robert Kennedy

I saw a man walk into my camera viewfinder from the left. He took a pistol out of his holster and raised…

— Eddie Adams

Of course, you have politics, the Vietnam war and all that monkey business. There are all kinds of reasons. At every one…

— Garry Winogrand

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

— Tucker Elliot

Today we have two Vietnams, side by side, north and south.

— Sheila Jackson Lee

I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.

— Robert Jay Lifton

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

— George W. Bush

I think Afghanistan has turned into the Vietnam of my generation, only with a better homecoming.

— Brandon Webb

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Like Vietnam, Afghanistan was never about troop levels; it is about how troops are utilized.

— Erik Prince

From Vietnam's 'Deer Hunter' to Iraq, films are never about the person who has had his house destroyed.

— Mira Nair

I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.

— Gordon Lightfoot