Bits Quote by Bui Diem

The way the Americans behaved created among the South Vietnamese a lot of habits, a lot of bad habits I would say.

— Bui Diem

South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the…

— Nguyen Cao Ky

The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French,…

— Noam Chomsky

I would say that the Vietnamese should remember that they didn't have exactly the same mobility the way the Americans have. They didn't have…

— Bui Diem

We South Vietnamese, we are very concerned about the ah, the fact that the communists are - were very shrewd in trying to take…

— Bui Diem

The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children, helpless victims in a war they did not understand.

— John Whitehead

South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon.

— William Colby

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

— Susan O'Neill

Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do…

— Tom Wolfe

By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?

— William Westmoreland

With all my traveling around the world I would say that South Vietnam was not as corrupted as people want to talk about it…

— Bui Diem

We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any…

— J. William Fulbright