Birth Quote by Jeane Kirkpatrick

“For more than a decade, the United States had been giving large-scale military aid to the French colonialists, and then to the American-installed but…

— Edward S. Greenberg

In Vietnam, America fought one whose communism was driven by an underlying nationalism, the desire to live free of the West. Whatever one may…

— Shelby Steele

Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.

— John F. Kerry

Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.

— Richard M. Nixon

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

I am shocked that we seemed to have learned nothing, absolutely nothing, from Vietnam.

— Michael Dirda

We are not a warlike people. Nor is our history filled with tales of aggressive adventures and imperialism, which might come as a shock…

— Ronald Reagan

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

— Richard Holbrooke

I think we fought Vietnam for the benefits of civilization, and certainly we fought it to oppose authority. To show our authority, to show…

— Stephen King

Vietnam was not a war of choice the United States had to fight. It was clearly not central.

— Richard N. Haass

The reason why many young people in the Vietnam War era were active was their lives were threatened by the draft and they were…

— Tom Morello