Vietnam Quotes - page 3

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there. (William Westmoreland)
Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened. View quote
Bob Schieffer
I was a grunt, walking around in the jungle of Vietnam, trying not to find the enemy. Because I am so big, they were going to give me either a heavy radio or a huge machine gun to carry. I carried a radio. View quote
Bob Gunton
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. View quote
Bob Gunton
Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War. View quote
Breyten Breytenbach
My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience. View quote
Clarke Peters
I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt as if it was going to trickle down to me. View quote
Dylan McDermott
I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case. View quote
Floyd Abrams
We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated. View quote
George Wald
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. View quote
Howard Fineman
Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them. (Hanoi Hannah)
He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam. View quote
James Stockdale
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. View quote
Justin Sane
I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one. View quote
Larry Hagman
Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World. View quote
Mary Chapin Carpenter
John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there. View quote
Max Cleland
I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was. View quote
Maya Lin
The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse. View quote
Mike Gravel
I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War. View quote
Mike Mansfield
I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years. View quote
Morley Safer
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)
The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived. View quote
Mort Walker
These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam. View quote
Neil Sheehan
Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions. View quote
Phillip Noyce
I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam. View quote
Parker Stevenson