Goals Quote by Robert McNamara

I was too important to go to Vietnam.

— Mitt Romney

I joined the People's Armed Forces in 1961 to 1984, and I was also a soldier in the southern battle of Vietnam during the…

— Nguyen Tan Dung

On my discharge, I had the challenge of putting my life back together but Vietnam stuck in the inner recesses of my mind.

— Doug Rice

I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.

— Mike Mansfield

I deeply regret having let stand and later confirming the assumption that I went to Vietnam. For this and any other distortions about my…

— Joseph J. Ellis

My father had gone to Vietnam.

— Elizabeth Edwards

I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there.

— Mitt Romney

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

— John F. Kerry

It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam.

— Mitt Romney

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

— Neil Sheehan

We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam.

— Alexander Haig

I first became interested in Ho Chi Minh in 1964-1965 while I was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam as a foreign…

— William J. Duiker