Bad habit Quote by Bui Diem

The South Vietnamese were perhaps a little bit slow in doing things, they jump on, on the problem and they try to do themselves…

— Bui Diem

I have to admit it that the large quantity of US money poured into Vietnam provoked ii...a lot of bad habits.

— Bui Diem

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

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

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

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

Suppose Vietnam could separate itself from the American dominated global system and carry out a successful social and economic development. Then that is very…

— Noam Chomsky

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

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

Vietnam was a terrible mistake for the United States. But like Iraq, Vietnam was a badly chosen battlefield in a larger conflict with totalitarianism…

— Jacob Weisberg

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.

— J. William Fulbright

“... a real program of social and economic reform [in Vietnam] would have involved a real conflict ... between the peasants ... and the…

— Frances FitzGerald