Vietnam Quotes - Page 25

• I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.

  Michael Caine

  Korea, Soldier, World

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• Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.

  Dan Quayle

  War, Kuwait, Iraq

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• ...(Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has cooked you a few bad meals you must never eat again.

  Molly Haskell

  Mother, War, Meals

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• Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.

  Hanoi Hannah

  Ideas, Gis, South

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

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• My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

  Justin Sane

  War, Rights, Parent

  "Anti-Flag to incite May Day masses" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2006.

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• How, then, can the feds justify favoring sons of Hispanics over sons of white Americans who fought in World War II or Vietnam?

  Pat Buchanan

  War, Son, White

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• If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!

  Rajneesh

  Change, War, Israel

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• I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.

  Tracy Kidder

  Combat, Novel

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• For the past several years, I've been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on the path of righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, need to find an appropriately high-minded approach to life's exit ramp.

  Joe Klein

  Baby, War, Past

  "Why Legalizing Marijuana Makes Sense" by Joe Klein, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2009.

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• I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

  Madeleine Albright

  Iraq, Numbers, Disaster

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• 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

  Leadership, War, Reality

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• One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam war? The average response on the part of Americans today is about 100,000. The official figure is about two million. The actual figure is probably three to four million. The people who conducted the study raised an appropriate question: What would we think about German political culture if, when you asked people today how many Jews died in the Holocaust, they estimated about 300,000? What would that tell us about German political culture?

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Thinking, Average

  "Media Control". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1991.

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• It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.

  Tom Clancy

  Loss, Lost Friendship, Lessons

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• John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there.

  Max Cleland

  Ends, John Kerry

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• Today we have two Vietnams, side by side, north and south.

  Sheila Jackson Lee

  Two, Today, Sides

  "Sheila Jackson Lee says there are two Vietnams: North and South" by Ciara O'Rourke, www.politifact.com. July 21, 2010.

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• Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.

  Robert Caro

  People, President, Lost

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• I was getting money for showing one man killing another. Two lives were destroyed and I was getting paid for it. (On his 1968 photograph of the summary street corner execution of prisoner Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan.)

  Eddie Adams

  Men, Two, Police

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• If John McCain were really a war hero he would've won Vietnam.

  Zach Braff

  War, Hero, Mccain

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• It would be good for the workers in Vietnam even as it helps make sure that they're not undercutting competition here in the United States.

  Barack Obama

  Competition, Would Be, United States

  "Backlash Against TPP Grows as Leaked Text Reveals Increased Corporate Control of Public Health". www.democracynow.org. June 11, 2015.

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• I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam.

  Roma Downey

  Smile, Country, Thinking

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• Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam?

  Jeff Gannon

  War, Years, America

  Jeff Gannon (2007). “The Great Media War: A Battlefield Report”, Iuniverse Inc

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• Who cares what entertainers on the air think about international affairs? Who would want to hear me about Vietnam? They can hear all they want from people with reason to be respected as knowledgeable.

  Johnny Carson

  Thinking, Air, People

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• 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

  War, Marijuana, Giving

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.

  Vanessa Kerry

  Mom, Brother, Dad

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• I lost my athletic scholarship by injuring my right knee. That right knee kept me out of Vietnam, and I went into Drama. I put them all together with a football foundation and the house was built on Drama - and love and kindness and understanding and grace.

  Gary Busey

  Football, Kindness, Drama

  "An Interview With Gary Busey". Interview with Meagan Evans, 11thhouronline.com. March 11, 2010.

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