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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

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 could not bring democracy to South Vietnam at a cost that we were willing to accept. So it was a disaster. That' is…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Frances FitzGerald

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

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

— Bui Diem

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

“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

Why was the United States so afraid of an independent South Vietnam? Well, I think the reason again is pretty clear from the internal…

— Noam Chomsky

“There is at the outset a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I, and others, have…

— Martin Luther King Jr

Vietnam remains an underdeveloped economy with a high poverty incidence, ... party, people and army will continue to stand united and ... turn Vietnam…

— Anonymous

Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood…

— Robert Dallek