Vietnam Quotes - page 2

You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out,You take the human being and you twist it all aboutSo scrub my skin with womenChain my tongue with whiskyStuff my nose with garlicCoat my eyes with butterFill my ears with silverStick my legs in plasterTell me lies about Vietnam. (Adrian Mitchell)
I love irony in pictures. There's one photograph from Vietnam by Philip Jones Griffiths that shows a very large GI having his pocket picked by a tiny Vietnamese woman. It told the whole story of the clash of two cultures and how the invader could never win. View quote
John Pilger
During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. View quote
Francis Ford Coppola
The people in our country and in America and in all West European countries, they have to gorge and guzzle so that they don't even start to think about the fact that we have something to do with Vietnam or what it might be about, OK? View quote
Gudrun Ensslin
Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam. View quote
Jean-Marie Le Pen
Prior art is as effective as US soldiers in Iraq: They control the ground they stand on, and nothing more. I used to say Vietnam, but, well, you know... View quote
Richard Stallman
North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that. View quote
Richard Nixon
I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war [in Vietnam] than the people have been told. View quote
Ronald Reagan
In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
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)
The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place. View quote
Brendan Fraser
I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there. View quote
Brendan Fraser
The U.S. invaded Vietnam because many in our government - Lyndon Johnson's best and brightest - imagined it could impose a government on that country that would provide a buffer against China and stop the supposedly rolling dominos of Communism. View quote
Jay Parini
After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts. View quote
Leon Panetta
Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie. View quote
Jerry Stiller
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. View quote
William Westmoreland
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone. View quote
William Westmoreland
When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail. View quote
William Westmoreland
The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names. (William Westmoreland)
As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it. View quote
William Westmoreland
By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they? View quote
William Westmoreland
I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy. View quote
William Westmoreland
When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves. View quote
William Westmoreland