Vietnam Quotes - Page 20

• I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world. I was lost, and trying not to get into a fight every day.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Fighting, Ideas, Trying

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• In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Japan, People, Matter

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.319, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• History of America, Part I (1776-1966): Declaration of Independence, Constitutional Convention, Louisiana Purchase, Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I, Great Depression, New Deal, World War II, TV, Cold war, civil-rights movement, Vietnam. History of America, Part II (1967-present): the Super Bowl era. The Super Bowl has become Main Street’s Mardi Gras.

  Norman Chad

  War, America, Rights

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• Prior art is as effective as US soldiers in Iraq: They control the ground they stand on, and nothing more. I used to say Vietnam, but, well, you know.

  Richard Stallman

  Art, Iraq, Soldier

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• I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.

  Ron Kovic

  Stars, Heart, Two

  "Ron Kovic: Peace movement will be largest ever". Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. January 17, 2003.

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• I saw a large, red dried swath that I immediately identified clearly as blood. I covered the war in Vietnam. I saw a lot of it [blood] there.

  Sam Donaldson

  War, Blood, Red

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• In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.

  Anna Louise Strong

  War, Facts, These Days

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• What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties.

  Nong ?uc Manh

  Party, Thinking, People

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• In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.

  Nong ?uc Manh

  Views, Law, Jail

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• I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

  Gerald Scarfe

  War, Drawing, Very Sad

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• For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

  James Fallows

  War, People, Disaster

  "As We Near the 10th Anniversary of the Iraq War" by James Fallows, www.theatlantic.com. March 1, 2013.

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• I'd rather go to Vietnam than get married.

  Joe Namath

  Married

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• It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.

  Paul Begala

  People, Democrat, Seems

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• No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions.

  Paul Tsongas

  Spring, War, Rights

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• I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.

  J. William Fulbright

  War, Japan, People

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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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• So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet.

  Diane Wakoski

  War, People, Black

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• I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.

  Alexander Haig

  Thinking, America, Generations

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• I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.

  Bill Ayers

  Country, War, People

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• I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the 'The New York Times' and 'The Washington Post' and other newspapers from publishing papers that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.

  Floyd Abrams

  New York, Block, War

  "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn - Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.

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• The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse.

  Mike Gravel

  Soldier, Dying, Vain

  Mike Gravel's speech at the 2008 Democratic primary Presidential debate in Orangeburg, South Carolina, www.nbcnews.com. April 26, 2007.

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• It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Writing, Years, Way

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• I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the U.S. military.

  Sebastian Junger

  Military, Cynical, Connections

  "A Few Good Men". Interview with Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2010.

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• The lessons I learned in Vietnam and in the NFL reinforced one another:
  teamwork, sacrifice, responsibility, accountability, and leadership.

  Rocky Bleier

  Teamwork, Responsibility, Sacrifice

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• I'm old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.

  Waylon Jennings

  Crazy, Boys, Thinking

  Song: G.I. Joe

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