Vietnamese Quotes

I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger.

It's a big loss to Vietnamese soccer, but we need to clean up our soccer.

The cooperation in the fullest possible accounting is excellent and we need to give the Vietnamese credit for having stayed the course on that.

Our people were the victims of (the Americans') brutal war of aggression. The Vietnamese nation's losses and suffering are wordless.

John McCain's words and statements, which lack good will, have hurt the Vietnamese and Asian peoples.

The population of Vietnam is 83 million. We have 1.3 million Vietnamese living in America. I don't know who this gentleman would represent.

This event in itself shows that Vietnamese-U.S. relations have in fact entered a new stage of development.

Once this [families speaking up] started happening, I think for better or for worse the North Vietnamese did use that as a propaganda tool.

The now legendary Fonda photo shows her with diminutive Vietnamese women examining an antiaircraft weapon, implying in the rightist imagination that she relished the thought of killing those American pilots innocently flying overhead.

The importance of shooting in the country and on the actual land and using real Vietnamese actors and hearing real Vietnamese dialogue ... all that was more important to me and I was able to deal with (the censor).

A lot of the Vietnamese kids can't really speak Vietnamese anymore. Most of them will have a very heavy accent, because they can't speak it well. So for the kids pageant, the kids will have to be able to speak Vietnamese. And so this is what we're trying to promote: Let them memorize some Vietnamese lines, go up on stage and see how well they present their Vietnamese.

And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.

The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.

And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation.

Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.

The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant.

We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.

I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need!

Although I wasn't 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.

My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.

I believe firmly in reconciliation among Vietnamese to avoid unnecessary shedding of the blood of Vietnamese.

I only follow one party: the Vietnamese party.