Vietnam Quotes Page 2

The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory.

I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.

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

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.

Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

The greatest contribution Vietnam is making-right or wrong is beside the point-is that it is developing an ability in the United States to fight a limited war, to go to war without the necessity of arousing the public ire.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society.

.. shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Once upon a time our traditional goal in war and can anyone doubt that we are at war? - was victory. Once upon a time we were proud of our strength, our military power. Now we seem ashamed of it. Once upon a time the rest of the world looked to us for leadership. Now they look to us for a quick handout and a fence-straddling international posture.

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.

I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.

My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.

All the wrong people remember Vietnam.

I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it.

The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of The New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.

We jumped into the protest of Vietnam before the Black Panther Party ever started, before the Black Panther Party was even thought of. In fact, it was late 1965 and 1966 that the anti-Vietnam War, anti-draft to the Vietnam War protest started at University of California, Berkeley.

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.

Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.

I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.

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.

They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes

With respect to where we are now, we have a voluntary army.

And if we ever go back to conscription I hope that at time it will be the kind of conscription that was put in at the end of the Vietnam War. And that is, everybody is equally liable to be called to serve the nation in time of conflict.

Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.

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.

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.

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room.

Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

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.

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.

Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything-it can stop the Vietnam War. It can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.

When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.

As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.

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?

It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate.

So much of my work involved the Vietnam War that it would have been obscene to show it in a gallery. But now, it’s different; it’s important to remember and to enable the young to discover what to some of us is still so present.

President Bush's campaign is now attacking John Kerry for throwing away some of his medals to protest the Vietnam War. Bush did not have any medals to throw away, but in his defense he did have all his services records thrown out.

Ninety-five percent of women's experiences are about being a victim.

Or about being an underdog, or having to survive... women didn't go to Vietnam and blow things up. They are not Rambo.