Quotes of: Vietnam Keyword

The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.

Marion Barry

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

Al Franken

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

Barry Goldwater

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 was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.

Paul Begala

If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.

Shane Smith

The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.

Noam Chomsky

Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time.

Robert Dallek

Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job.

Stephen Ambrose

Under Malcolm Fraser's Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any great fuss.

Richard Flanagan

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

Robert Kiyosaki

The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

Howard Fineman

One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.

George McGovern

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

Vladimir Putin

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.

Bruce Jackson

Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam.

David Hackworth

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy.

James Hillman

After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really.

Morley Safer

It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

Salman Rushdie

If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.

Tom Seaver