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Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
— Hanoi Hannah
The U.S. cannot be the policeman of the world. When we tried that in Vietnam, they beat us up.
— Newt Gingrich
Nothing existed outside ourselves and school. For us, the world of politics, social revolution, the war in Vietnam never happened.
— Rachel Klein
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. (On Vietnam War)
— Charles De Gaulle
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
— Benjamin Spock
My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
— Madeleine Albright
Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq.
— Rosanne Cash
You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict
— Juan Williams
It's shades of Vietnam again, folks: body counts.
— Seymour Hersh
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
— William Westmoreland
Post-Traumatic Stress Injury isn't a disease. It's a wound to the soul that never heals.
— Tom Glenn
We're going to bomb them back into the stone Age.
— Curtis LeMay
We still seek no wider war.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.
— Michael Caine
My father served in Vietnam. When I was young he told me that everyone needs an emotional foxhole. A place to hide when life's storms hit.
— Richard Paul Evans
With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.
— Cornell Capa
And in this moment, I realize one reason it's so great to have a best friend is sometimes, like right now, Cal and I are thinking the very same thing.
— Kimberly Willis Holt
There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.
— Noam Chomsky
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
The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.
— Noam Chomsky
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.
— William Westmoreland
Last night I dreamed of Peace.
— Dang Thuy Tram
I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.
— Brendan Fraser
Obama avoided the Vietnam draft with a letter from his family doctor diagnosing him as medically eight.
— Stephen Colbert
The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.
— Stephen Ambrose
The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
— Oliver Stone
Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.
— Jean-Marie Le Pen
We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.
— J. William Fulbright
One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.
— George H. W. Bush
South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon.
— William Colby
The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism.
— Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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
It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.
— Salman Rushdie
Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.
— Willie Stargell
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
— Sammy Davis Jr.
If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.
— Nguyen Cao Ky
They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater and that's what happened.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the U.S. military.
— Sebastian Junger
As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.
— Mark Shields
Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.
— Rick DeStefanis
The U.S. dropped more high explosives on Vietnam than the Allies used on Germany and Japan together in the Second World War.
— Nick Davies
It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
Westmoreland recognized that the only way to seal South Vietnam's eight hundred-mile western border was to shut down the infiltration routes.
— Robert D. Sander
It became necessary to destroy the town to save it,
— Peter Arnett
What is this demilitarized zone? Whatever it is, I like it! Gets you on your toes better than a strong cup of cappuccino.
— Robin Williams
Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.
— John Pilger
I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
— Gordon Lightfoot
To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.
— Marilyn Manson
I hated him for making me stop hating him
— Tim O'Brien
George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam.
— Peter Jennings
My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.
— Myra MacPherson
It won't hurt you. It's just to kill plants. It's called Agent Orange ... and it won't bother humans.
— Karl Marlantes
Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience.
— Nicholas Proffitt
I'd rather go to Vietnam than get married.
— Joe Namath
Vietnam, really more accurately, Laos, was almost after Berlin the top problem at the beginning of the Kennedy Administration in '61, foreign problem.
— McGeorge Bundy
Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened.
— Bob Schieffer
One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.
— George McGovern
Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.
— R. Lee Ermey
But this too is true: stories can save us.
— Tim O'Brien
Without the Indian Subcontinent, in other words, there could not have been a Vietnam in any cultural or aesthetic sense.
— Robert D. Kaplan
We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans.
— Jim McDermott
I grew up reading Holocaust literature at the beach, Gulag literature on winter holidays, Vietnam memoirs on spring break.
— Michael Hastings
'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
I think Americans understand that in Afghanistan, unlike in Iraq and Vietnam, we are fighting an enemy allied with the people who attacked us on 9/11.
— Richard Holbrooke
For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.
— James Fallows
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed.
— Robert McNamara