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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

I'm very moved to be here today, ... Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We need to work much harder. — Ho Chi Minh

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

McCain fought in Vietnam - I think that he has enough civilian blood on his hands. — Vladimir Putin

I have a few memories of being young here in the United States, but almost no recollections of being young in Vietnam. — Khoi Vinh

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

For me, the way to approach a subject such as Vietnam is through storytelling. — Tim O'Brien

There's a direct link between the buffalo hunts and Vietnam, said Switters. — Tom Robbins

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

I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years. — Morley Safer

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

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place. — John F. Kennedy

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

How do you know there's not a door to heaven in the sky between Malaysia and Vietnam? — Sarah Palin

I said to the president's wife, Vietnam is the main reason we are having trouble with the youth of America. It is a war without explanation or reason. — Eartha Kitt

I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam. — Ed Bradley

I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on for centuries perpetuating itself. — Yoko Ono

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

Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from. — Craig Venter

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

Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's. — Bob Gunton

I have to admit it that the large quantity of US money poured into Vietnam provoked ii ... a lot of bad habits. — Bui Diem

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

McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion. — Morley Safer

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

John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there. — Max Cleland

I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement. — Jon Voight

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam. — Tracy Kidder

Self-doubts are like weeds; if you don't deal with them right away, they multiply. And before you know it, your garden looks like a jungle in Vietnam. — Emma Chase

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

The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War. — Michael Caine

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

It would be good for the workers in Vietnam even as it helps make sure that they're not undercutting competition here in the United States. — Barack Obama

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

True, he didn't know what his Dad would have been like if he hadn't been in Vietnam, — Nina Post

Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays. — Michael Herr

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's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons. — Tom Clancy

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

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder. — Jan Karon

My view of Bradley Manning is that he's a very courageous young man who ... did what I didn't have the guts to do during the Vietnam war. — Ray McGovern

In what is perhaps the strangest turn in the President's efforts to rally support, he agreed that Iraq is just like Vietnam, but in a good way. — Jon Stewart

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

I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam. — Oliver Stone

Without the Indian Subcontinent, in other words, there could not have been a Vietnam in any cultural or aesthetic sense. — Robert D. Kaplan

The lessons I learned in Vietnam and in the NFL reinforced one another:
teamwork, sacrifice, responsibility, accountability, and leadership. — Rocky Bleier

We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans. — Jim McDermott

So now it turns out that Thomas Jefferson was having sex with Sally Hemings while serving in the 101st Airborne during the Vietnam War. — Ann Coulter

I grew up reading Holocaust literature at the beach, Gulag literature on winter holidays, Vietnam memoirs on spring break. — Michael Hastings

When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won. — Howard Zinn

'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