Children Quote by John F. Kerry

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

— Michael Herr

Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

It was in prison that we found the hope of salvation for the Communists. It was there that we developed a sense of responsibility…

— Richard Wurmbrand

“A soldier: "I know where heaven is and it's Lithuania ... The women are beautiful, pagan, with a practical view towards sex. Who says…

— Robert D. Kaplan

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 was always convinced that decent people in the case of Vietnam, highly intelligent, decent people, got us involved because they had made, in…

— Henry A. Kissinger

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 worse than immoral - it was a mistake.

— Dean Acheson

I think that Vietnam, many of us who served in Vietnam thought that was very wasteful, and to what end? To what end? What…

— Richard Armitage

We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam.

— Alexander Haig