Vietnam Quotes

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

In the Vietnam era, the Pentagon targeted Chicanos, Puerto Ricans and other minority and poor youth with a discriminatory draft.

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.

Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

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.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

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.

She is obviously very disappointed as she had wanted to go to Vietnam for several years to highlight human rights issues, which is a very important issue for her constituents and which she is very passionate about.

This time you're going to bring in people who were educated in Vietnam and have much wider experience abroad than any of their predecessors. They will have been more involved in developing the country than trying to get rid of foreigners or trying to recover from the ravages of war.

I spent about eight months in Vietnam. In 1970, I was in the Infantry.

Boeing recognizes the past growth and the future potential of Vietnam as the country's aviation/aerospace and IT industries continue to develop. One of the greatest benefits to a country is to support its future by enhancing the education system for the country's youth.

With Robinson, you have to remember his son was in Vietnam. If you have children there you want to believe the cause is noble, or you want to get them home.

One of the lessons of the Vietnam war is that when politicians dabble in military affairs they tie the hands of our soldiers and prevent them from succeeding.

I think he'd be horrified. The long-term consequences of the war in Vietnam have come back to roost with us, so I don't think he'd be happy.

The longer we stay there, the more similarities (to Vietnam) are going to come together.

You hear interesting stories. We talked to a guy who was in Vietnam. You learn stuff historically.

Those of us who finally saw through the Vietnam war saw through this war, and all the actions that were necessary to end the Vietnam war will be necessary here. I think the American people will get us out of this (war).

[LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - If you enjoyed the Kent State shootings, the lies about us winning in the Vietnam jungles,] Alice's Restaurant, ... The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation.

It angers me and scares me, ... I remember Vietnam. I remember how the protests started out back then. I'm here to do whatever I can.

It was a sound you'll never forget. It would take you back to Vietnam.

In Vietnam, they poisoned us with Agent Orange, and now they are poisoning another generation with depleted uranium and other toxins.

War doesn't go away when the bullets stop. Vietnam still is as relevant today as it was then.

The post-Vietnam period was a period of enormous moral confusion. It felt very much like a starting-over point, where there was a re-examination of social assumptions about the idea of law enforcement and the social contract.