Quotes of: Vietnam Keyword

When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

Lyndon B. Johnson

By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.

Nguyen Cao Ky

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

We want to bring better products to Vietnam. My hope is through changes in lifestyle and the products we consume, it will affect the people and change the way they are thinking.

Pham Nhat Vuong

When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

Fred Wilson

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

Bruce Jackson

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

Jim McDermott

How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

John F. Kerry

What are we blaming? Is this Vietnam? We made a movie, it didn't make much money. I'm gonna be really happy if somebody watches it in 10 years' time and really enjoys it.

Kevin Costner

In post-Vietnam, post-Watergate America, skeptical voters demand full disclosure of everything from candidates' finances to their medical records, and spin-savvy accounts of backstage machinations dominate political coverage.

Virginia Postrel

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

Vida Blue

Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.

Willie Stargell

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.

William Westmoreland

The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.

William Westmoreland

I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.

Bill Ayers

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

Benjamin Spock

What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties.

Nong Duc Manh

The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies.

Paul Cook

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

You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.

P. J. O'Rourke

Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.

R. Lee Ermey