American people Quote by Ralph Peters

So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight…

— Paul Begala

It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they…

— Jeannette Rankin

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

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

We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country to do…

— George McGovern

Before we put an American in harm's way, tell us why. No one wants to see the region descend into further chaos. There's a…

— Xavier Becerra

“Perhaps the main reason America cannot 'get over' its war with Viet Nam is that Americans cannot fit what happened into its earlier myth…

— Trin Yarborough

I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.

— Alexander Haig

“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

Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like…

— David Hackworth

America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the poorest. We…

— Martha Gellhorn

More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to an end,…

— Raul Grijalva