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I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War. -- Mike Mansfield
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
In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do -- Hugo Black
I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand. -- Terry Gilliam
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
We still seek no wider war. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
We believe that peace is at hand. -- Henry A. Kissinger
I see light at the end of the tunnel. -- Walt Whitman Rostow
Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods. -- Michael Herr
Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie. -- Jerry Stiller
It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause. -- Ronald Reagan
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place. -- John F. Kennedy
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies. -- Benjamin Spock
This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart. -- Frank Church
I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that. -- George McGovern
You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam. -- Richard M. Nixon
If the Americans do not want to support us anymore, let them go, get out! Let them forget their humanitarian promises! -- Nguyen Van Thieu
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again. -- Karl Marlantes
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
You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights. -- John Wooden
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. -- Maya Lin
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. -- Dylan McDermott
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
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
The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security. -- George McGovern
Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective - taking over the South by force - could not be achieved. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had inflicted them on the national soul, challenging Americans' belief that they were a uniquely noble and honorable people. -- Thurston Clarke
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
During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell to the Communists, the Russians moved into Afghanistan, and American influence around the globe waned dramatically. -- Ben Shapiro
When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies. -- Michael Moore
One big, glaring difference I can think of between Iraq and Vietnam is the news coverage. During the Vietnam War era, you had TV coverage of the war saturating the airwaves every night, and that coverage wasn't put through a military filter at all. -- Mark Boal
There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals into the arms of the Left, which had been morally confused about Communism since its inception and had become essentially pacifist following the carnage of World War I. -- Dennis Prager
We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers. -- Joni Mitchell
America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the poorest. We savaged them, though they had never hurt us, and we cannot find it in our hearts, our honor, to give them help-because the government of Vietnam is Communist. And perhaps because they won. -- Martha Gellhorn
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. -- Barry Goldwater
Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War. -- Paula Scher
My father is American and deserted the Vietnam War. -- Joel Kinnaman
The only important lesson from the Vietnam War is this: Democrats lose wars. -- Ann Coulter
The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it. -- Bob Livingston
The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War. -- Michael Caine
Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War) -- Paul Harvey
In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising. -- James Rosen
Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War. -- Peter Jennings
I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate. -- David Cross
Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch. -- Andrea Mitchell
My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it. -- Robert Vaughn
The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars. -- Ronald Reagan
I left the Democratic Party basically on issues of national security during the end of the Vietnam War. -- Jim Webb
With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war. -- Cornell Capa
Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War." -- Steve Schirripa
Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War. -- Steve Schirripa
I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art. -- Robert Barry
We learned some bad things, and the Vietnam War led to some bad conclusions. We're not the greatest generation, that's for sure. -- Whit Stillman
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone. -- William Westmoreland
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War) -- Charles de Gaulle
The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either. -- Ronald Reagan
We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified them. -- Neil Young
So now it turns out that Thomas Jefferson was having sex with Sally Hemings while serving in the 101st Airborne during the Vietnam War. -- Ann Coulter
Realistically speaking, Ayn Rand should not have opposed the antidraft movement and supported the Vietnam War effort - in effect, she supported military conscription. -- Murray Bookchin
In April 1975 I was born and the Vietnam War ended. I could not let any American die in war before seeing an episode of Scrubs. -- Zach Braff
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. -- Clarke Peters
Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that. -- Jimmy Cliff
Matterhorn is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again. -- Karl Marlantes
By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years. -- C. Everett Koop
In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do. -- Hugo Black
The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War. -- Dennis Cardoza
[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the Democrats gave up, -- David Frum
I know this: that in your own hearts and your own souls, you are as much responsible for the Vietnam War as I am for killing these people. -- Charles Manson
Phil Hicks was the guy that was in the ROTC, that was going to go into the Vietnam War and thought that was the responsibility of the citizen. -- Judd Nelson
There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply. -- Thom Gunn
The whole thing about whether you smoke marijuana or not is so ridiculous. That and whether you protested the Vietnam War. Give me a break. Especially the marijuana thing. -- Dave Barry
In America, it is reported by some sources that there were more domestic violence related murders in the home than the 58,000 Americans soldiers killed in the entire Vietnam War -- Sara Niles
In all, the future secretary of defense and wartime vice president[, Dick Cheney,] would receive five deferments during the Vietnam War, protecting him from service during his draft-eligible years. -- Charlie Savage
The boys that were running away from America because they didn't want to get involved with the Vietnam War had come to me. They would tell me how they felt. -- Eartha Kitt
Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time. -- Graydon Carter
People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church. -- Warren Giles
The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that. -- Robert Hass
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. -- Breyten Breytenbach
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. -- Mort Walker
'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed. -- James Dobson
Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the other. All of that has disappeared thanks to Lyndon Johnson. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed. -- James Dobson
Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service. -- Harold E. Varmus
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. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order to continue to get a deferment, you had to go to graduate school. -- Robert Shapiro
I was in a community where we were out demonstrating. We were holding vigils against the Vietnam War, in - like, starting in around '67, I think,before it really exploded as a big movement. -- Jill Stein
On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare war. We've been flexible enough to kill people without declaring war. -- Lewis Blaine Hershey
Malcolm X was the first prominent American to attack and to criticize the U.S. role in Southeast Asia, and he came out four-square against the Vietnam War in 1964, long before the vast majority of Americans did. -- Manning Marable
The Vietnam War was in full swing, the Air Force wanted me and I wanted out of Flint, so three years in the USA and that fourth one spent here in Vietnam really flipped my life around. -- Doug Rice
Having gone through the civil rights struggle, having gone through the anti-Vietnam War struggle, by the time I was in my 20s, I had something that the current generation doesnt have. And that is a sense of efficacy. -- Paul Solman
The reason why many young people in the Vietnam War era were active was their lives were threatened by the draft and they were going to perhaps be forced to go overseas and fight in an immoral war. -- Tom Morello
[ Vietnam War] brought the people together and made the '60s like they were. The youth were very unified against the status quo - against the old line and the new old line. It's the same exact thing today. -- Neil Young
I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify. -- Radhanath Swami
America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War. -- John le Carre
Philip Jones Griffith documented the Vietnam War, and through his images that were published in Time Life Magazine, it showed me the horrors of war and at that time, I wanted to be a war photographer, based off his work. -- Jamel Shabazz
When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war. -- Samantha Power
I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers. -- Marianne Williamson
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. -- William C. Kirby
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. -- William C. Kirby
We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War game - the soldiers - into missing the point once again about the utter senselessness that is war. -- Steven Weber
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. -- Jay Leno
The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea wouldn't catch on big in her native country until the last three years of the Vietnam War. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea wouldn't catch on big in her native country until the last three years of the Vietnam War." -- Kurt Vonnegut
When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist. -- Andrea Mitchell
I used to say, 'Mad' takes on both sides.' We even used to rake the hippies over the coals. They were protesting the Vietnam War, but we took aspects of their culture and had fun with it. 'Mad' was wide open. -- Al Feldstein
Hippies started the ecology movement. They combated racism. They liberated sexual stereotypes, encouraged change, individual pride, and self-confidence. They questioned robot materialism. In four years they managed to stop the Vietnam War. They got marijuana decriminalized in fourteen states during the Carter Administration. -- Timothy Leary
That's where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists at the university of Michigan into a national organization, and in many ways, its growth was driven by the Vietnam War. -- Bill Ayers
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. -- Antonin Scalia
The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief. -- Adrienne Rich
I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War. -- Larry David
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. -- Bobby Seale
Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military. -- Gore Vidal
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. -- Martha Rosler
I'm a child of the '60s, I came of age then. I went to a couple of demonstrations, and then in the late '60s when the Vietnam anti-war movement grew as the Vietnam War was heating up, I became very involved in that. -- Simi Linton
I was a surf bum wannabe. I left home at age 17 and moved to Southern California to try to take up surfing as a vocation, but this was in 1964, and there was this nasty little thing called the Vietnam War. As a result, I got drafted. -- Craig Venter

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