Hanoi Quotes

• We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.

  Hanoi Hannah

  Want, Pilots, Jane

  "The Search for Hanoi Hannah" by Don North, www.psywarrior.com.

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• Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?

  Tom Hayden

  Journey, Atrocities, Should

  Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers

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• It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

  William Westmoreland

  Running, Operations, Clear

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• Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.

  Tom Hayden

  Block, California, Republican

  Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers

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• Hanoi Rocks was our baby and we were the core and we started the band. All those years that went to waste because of that accident, it's only right that we have some kind of advantage because it's our history. The name 'Hanoi Rocks' I think is one of the very best names, if not the best name of all rock n' roll bands.

  Michael Monroe

  Baby, Thinking, Rocks

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• 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

  War, Enemy, Vietnam

  On Vietnam and Not Seeking Reelection, delivered 31 March 1968

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• I did go to Vietnam in 2000 as a kind of pilgrimage and to feel my generation was very much a part of this. I felt responsible but also connected and empathetic. It was a very complicated relationship we had, whichever side you were on. The shock of being there was very few people my own age - I was primarily in the North in the streets of Hanoi. A whole generation was essentially decimated.

  Anne Waldman

  People, Age, Complicated Relationship

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• The influence of Sun Tzu on other North Vietnamese military strategists is harder to answer. Certainly many of the key leaders in Hanoi were aware of Sun Tzu and made use of his ideas - Vo Nguyen Giap applied many of these ideas in seeking out weak elements in the enemy's defenses, as did Truong Chinh, whose famous treatise, The Resistance Will Win (1947), cited the ideas of Mao Zedong as a model for the North Vietnamese to follow.

  William J. Duiker

  Military, Winning, Keys

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Bombs, May, Want

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• The International Control Commission isn't doing anything, it's never done anything. What good does it do to be on it or not? Before opening the embassy in Hanoi, I gave it a lot of thought, but it wasn't really a painful decision. American policy in Vietnam is what it is, in Saigon the situation is anything but normal, and I'm happy to have done what I did.

  Indira Gandhi

  Decision, Doe, Vietnam

  Source: sangam.org

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• The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply unable to defeat us militarily" and must therefore eventually be forced to compromise.

  William Shawcross

  Powerful, Errors, America

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• The one consistent policy running through this [Clinton] administration is the love it has lavished on Marxists -- food aid for North Korea, diplomatic recognition of the Hanoi regime, chronic kowtowing to Beijing and now doing Castro's dirty work. How can the Clinton gang -- which carried the Viet Cong flag during anti-war demonstrations and decorated their dorm rooms with pictures of Che Guevara -- not feel contempt for people who insist, with every fiber of their being, that communism is mankind's mortal enemy?

  Don Feder

  Running, War, Dirty

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• The Communist leaders in Moscow, Peking and Hanoi must fully understand that the United States considers the freedom of South Viet Nam vital to our interests. And they must know that we are not bluffing in our determination to defend those interests.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Determination, Communist Leaders, United States

  Gerald R. Ford (1973). “Selected speeches”, Desert Publications

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• Let's note, that in what I consider the most disgraceful performance abroad by an American official in my lifetime - something not exampled since Jane Fonda sat on the anti-aircraft gun in Hanoi to be photographed - Mr. McDermott said in effect, not in effect, he said it, we should take Saddam Hussein at his word and not take the President at his word. He said the United States is simply trying to provoke. I mean, why Saddam Hussein doesn't pay commercial time for that advertisement for his policy, I do not know.

  George Will

  Mean, Gun, Trying

  "Flashback: Stephanopoulos Scolded Critic of Bonior and McDermott". www.newsbusters.org. March 26, 2008.

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