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No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. -- Richard M. Nixon
I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service. -- John F. Kerry
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. -- William Westmoreland
I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin. -- Graham Nash
Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods. -- Michael Herr
Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war. -- John Pilger
Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie. -- Jerry Stiller
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place. -- John F. Kennedy
Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that. -- Richard M. Nixon
Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America. -- Myra MacPherson
It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate, -- Walter Cronkite
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable. -- U Thant
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. -- Michael Herr
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. -- Marshall McLuhan
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? -- John F. Kerry
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam. These events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the world nor of America's leadership in the world. -- Gerald R. Ford
This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking. It is a war thrust upon us and we cannot yield to tyranny. -- Francis Spellman
It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas. -- Ronald Reagan
I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kerry is saying that Bush never showed up for his national guard duty ... and now Bush is on the attack. He's accusing John Kerry of ducking time in the national guard by hiding out in the jungles of Vietnam. -- Jay Leno
Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War. -- Paula Scher
We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart. -- Jim Webb
If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam. -- Tom Seaver
When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it. -- George McGovern
We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas. -- Ronald Reagan
One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans. -- George H. W. Bush
Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
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The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere. -- Stephen Vizinczey
Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that. -- Bruce Jackson
Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters. -- Margaret Atwood
I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they're brothers and sisters, man. They're brothers and sisters and it's a sight for elation. -- Brad Pitt
Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
My father had gone to Vietnam. -- Elizabeth Edwards
South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon. -- William Colby
Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America. -- R. Lee Ermey
Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam. -- Don DeLillo
I'd rather go to Vietnam than get married. -- Joe Namath
Iraq was a war of choice, like Vietnam. -- Chuck Hagel
The Vietnam war was fought over portion size. -- Jon Stewart
I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve. -- Al Franken
Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position. -- Bill Ayers
I was too important to go to Vietnam. -- Mitt Romney
My father is American and deserted the Vietnam War. -- Joel Kinnaman
Vietnam is the Liberals' favorite was because America lost -- Ann Coulter
Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days. -- R. Lee Ermey
We tried to change Vietnam. Instead, Vietnam changed us. -- Tony Thomson
No one ever comes back from Vietnam. Not really. -- Gary D.
We should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age. -- Curtis LeMay
The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake. -- Stephen Ambrose
The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed. -- Robert McNamara
My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam. -- Madeleine Albright
Vietnam was worse than immoral - it was a mistake. -- Dean Acheson
Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s. -- Jerry Brown
After Vietnam, the Democrats became fundamentally the anti-military as a party. -- Heather Wilson
John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there. -- Max Cleland
You think Vietnam was bad? Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo. -- Tony Snow
We ended the war in Vietnam, and brought the troops home. -- Jill Stein
Enough is enough. This is how we get started in Vietnam. -- Charles Rangel
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation. -- Benjamin Spock
I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam. -- Stephen Ambrose
I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War. -- Mike Mansfield
It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead. -- Kim Stanley
It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam. -- Mitt Romney
If John McCain were really a war hero he would've won Vietnam. -- Zach Braff
My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. -- Francis Ford Coppola
Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself. -- Bob Dylan
I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam. -- Tracy Kidder
I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
There are some similarities, of course (between Iraq and Vietnam). Death is terrible. -- George W. Bush
I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam. -- Al Franken
Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I've never heard of a clean one. -- Bob Hope
God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam. -- Muqtada al Sadr
There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication. -- Noam Chomsky
I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam. -- Ed Bradley
The only important lesson from the Vietnam War is this: Democrats lose wars. -- Ann Coulter
The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq. -- Mohammed Aldouri
It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war. -- Salman Rushdie
I am shocked that we seemed to have learned nothing, absolutely nothing, from Vietnam. -- Michael Dirda
The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War. -- Michael Caine
The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it. -- Bob Livingston
World War II was just as dirty and brutal as Vietnam, just as confusing. -- David Ayer
I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam. -- Oliver Stone
The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq." -- Mohammed Aldouri
Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam. -- Tom Hayden
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements. -- J. William Fulbright
In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising. -- James Rosen
Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there. -- William Westmoreland
I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate. -- David Cross
Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War) -- Paul Harvey
I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years. -- Morley Safer
Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from. -- Craig Venter
Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time. -- Alex Garland
I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam. -- Ed Bradley
A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys. -- Robin Williams
Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War. -- Peter Jennings
Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq. -- Rosanne Cash
This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam. -- Hanoi Hannah
Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch. -- Andrea Mitchell
I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there. -- Mitt Romney
Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along. -- Merle Haggard
If I had that kind of money, I wouldn't come to Vietnam, I'd send for it. -- Bob Hope
McCain fought in Vietnam - I think that he has enough civilian blood on his hands. -- Vladimir Putin
Obama avoided the Vietnam draft with a letter from his family doctor diagnosing him as medically eight. -- Stephen Colbert
Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam. -- Jean-Marie Le Pen
Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam." -- Jean Marie Le Pen
The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam. -- William Westmoreland
The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice. -- Marion Barry
It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam. -- Paul Begala
These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam. -- Neil Sheehan
The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism. -- Nguyen Cao Ky
Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars. -- Ronald Reagan
By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam. -- Nguyen Cao Ky

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