Vietnam Quotes - page 4

Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America. (R. Lee Ermey)
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. View quote
R. Lee Ermey
I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out. View quote
Richard Hell
I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war. View quote
Robert Jay Lifton
My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it. View quote
Robert Vaughan
I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam. View quote
Roma Downey
I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart. View quote
Ron Kovic
Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet. View quote
Sam Elliott
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there. View quote
Sammy Davis, Jr.
But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics. View quote
Tim Holden
If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam. (Tom Seaver)
Although I wasnt able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like. View quote
Tony Hillerman
I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam. View quote
Tracy Kidder
I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way. View quote
William Odom
Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters. View quote
Willie Stargell
One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict. View quote
Walter Dean Myers
East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century. View quote
William Kirby
Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers. View quote
Zach Wamp
Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government. View quote
Donald Sutherland
One aspect of the [Vietnam] conflict by the way that I will never ever countenance is that we drafted the lowest income level of America and the highest income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur. That is wrong. That is wrong. If we are going to ask every American to serve, every American should serve. View quote
John McCain
It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons. (Tom Clancy)
[Iraq is] not Vietnam, we have a government that has a support of the majority of the people. View quote
Bill Clinton
I am returning this MBE in protest against Britain's involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam and against "Cold Turkey" slipping down the charts. View quote
John Lennon
I think what's happening now is people want to forget. There was Vietnam, there was Watergate, there was Iran – we were beaten, we were hustled, and then we were humiliated. And I think people got a need to feel good about the country they live in. But what's happening, I think, is that that need – which is a good thing – is gettin' manipulated and exploited. And you see the Reagan reelection ads on TV – you know: "It's morning in America." And you say, well, it's not morning in Pittsburgh. It's not morning above 125th Street in New York. It's midnight, and, like, there's a bad moon risin'. And that's why when Reagan mentioned my name in New Jersey, I felt it was another manipulation, and I had to disassociate myself from the president's kind words. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
The Philippines and the U.S. have had a strong relationship with each other for a very long time now. We have a shared history. We have shared values, democracy, freedom, and we have been in all the wars together in modern history, the World War, Second World War, Cold War, Vietnam, Korea, now the war on terrorism. View quote
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo