Best Vietnam Quotations
447 Vietnam quotes by 307 unique authors
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With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.
— Cornell Capa
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Mr. McCain fought in Vietnam. I think that he has enough blood of peaceful citizens on his hands. It must be impossible for him to…
— Vladimir Putin
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I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and sorrow in my…
— Martin Luther
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Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
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One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam war? The average…
— Noam Chomsky
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It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right…
— Tom Clancy
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John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there.
— Max Cleland
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Today we have two Vietnams, side by side, north and south.
— Sheila Jackson Lee
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Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in…
— Robert Caro
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I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.
— Tracy Kidder
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It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time,…
— Vanessa Kerry
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How, then, can the feds justify favoring sons of Hispanics over sons of white Americans who fought in World War II or Vietnam?
— Pat Buchanan
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I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they…
— Terry Gilliam
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Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos…
— George Galloway
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In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they…
— Hugo Black
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As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.
— Mark Shields
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When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement…
— Andrea Mitchell
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Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.
— Andrea Mitchell
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I think we can end the divisions within the United States. What I think is quite clear is that we can work together in the…
— Robert Kennedy
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By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking…
— C. Everett Koop
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So much of my work involved the Vietnam War that it would have been obscene to show it in a gallery. But now, it’s different;…
— Martha Rosler
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I'd been a child during the 1960s when women burned their bras and hundreds of thousands gathered in protests against the Vietnam War. As a…
— Lynn Hill
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Although I wasnt able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the…
— Tony Hillerman
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I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been…
— Maya Lin
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More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II,…
— Aaron Huey
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