Country Quote by Noam Chomsky

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

In the longer term, I hope that as Vietnam evolves into a more prosperous society with active ties to the international marketplace, it will…

— William J. Duiker

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

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 American people today are involved in a warfare more deadly than the war in Vietnam, but few of them seem aware of it…

— Norman Cousins

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases,…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

From the United States, Vietnam is looking for two things. One of them is a very stable and continuing to expand economic relationship. Secondly,…

— Michael W. Michalak

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

— Anonymous

“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

And I think that Vietnameese see the United States as a source of markets, as a source of technology and as a source of…

— Michael W. Michalak

“Vietnam had never been a true civil war. It was a war of conquest, initiated and perpetuated for more than two decades by the…

— Andy Greenberg