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Vietnam
Total Quotes : 40
Politics
Then
I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
- Al Franken
Generation
Serve
I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.
- Al Franken
Lose
Quit
We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam.
- Alexander Haig
Back
Should
We should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age.
- Curtis LeMay
Say
Which
When I went to Vietnam in 1971 with Bob Hope, we went to Da Nang, which was a Marine base. I just have to say it was one of the biggest thrills I have ever had.
- Jim Nabors
Democratic Party
I left the Democratic Party basically on issues of national security during the end of the Vietnam War.
- Jim Webb
First Time
Tons
My first time overseas was taking 10,000 tons of beer to Vietnam.
- John F. Kelly
Against
Pittsburgh
My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.
- Justin Sane
Will
Nation
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
- Benjamin Spock
War
Were
Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.
- Bill Ayers
Vietnam War
Pinch
The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it.
- Bob Livingston
Staying
Out
Majored in staying out of Vietnam.
- Butch Trucks
Book
Rebellion
'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed.
- James Dobson
More
Decade
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
Depend
Other
Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.
- Karl Marlantes
Mine
Named
I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.
- Gary Sinise
Generation
Most
My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
- Madeleine Albright
Understand
Against
I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand.
- Terry Gilliam
War
Against
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
War
Kennedy
It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.
- Salman Rushdie
War
Mr
When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
- Samantha Power
Veterans
Everybody
Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.
- R. Lee Ermey
Like
Would
I would like to dive in Vietnam and Cambodia.
- Neil Morrissey
Wrote
About
I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.
- Tracy Kidder
War
More
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
- Richard M. Nixon
Prepare
Had
When I visited Vietnam for Oxfam, the thing that really struck me was how the local farmers had to prepare to evacuate or climb to their mezzanines with their valuable family possessions.
- Martin Parr
Fact
Dollars
I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.
- Oliver North
Trust
Lyndon
Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.
- Robert Caro
Service
Began
John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there.
- Max Cleland
Education
Go
The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order to continue to get a deferment, you had to go to graduate school.
- Robert Shapiro
Democrats
About
It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.
- Paul Begala
Lesson
Unjust
So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.
- Paul Begala
Good
Like
A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys.
- Robin Williams
War
Different
War is war. Vietnam is no different from the Crusades.
- Michael Cimino
Happy
Childhoods
Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.
- Michael Herr
More
Marxism
Vietnam should have taught us that nationalism, with its engines of independence and self-determination, is a more powerful force by far than Marxism and must be understood and respected.
- Pete Hamill
Names
Listed
The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.
- William Westmoreland
Mind
Fought
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
- William Westmoreland
Hitters
Really
Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.
- Willie Stargell
Vietnam War
Now
We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
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