“ The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror. ”
- Oliver Stone- Copy
“ I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one. ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
“ We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do. ”
- Wendell Berry- Copy
“ It poisons everything. It has disrupted the economy, envenomed our politics, hurt the alliance, divided our people, and now it is interfering with this critical question of the arms race. ”
- James Reston- Copy
“ This is simply more of the same smears and sleaze against a decorated Vietnam veteran from more of the same serial liars who disgraced themselves in 2004. It's too bad the truth doesn't matter to the right wing when there's a chance to fund-raise based on outright falsehood and slander. ”
- David Wade- Copy
“ If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
“ I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-rate power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history. ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
“ America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose of war is not to annihilate an enemy but to get him to mend his ways. And we are confident we can get the enemy to mend his. ”
- Arthur J. Goldberg- Copy
“ The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man. ”
- Ho Chi Minh- Copy
“ Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam. ”
- Tom Hayden- Copy
“ Comparisons with Vietnam are grossly overdrawn. We were having hundreds of casualties a week in Vietnam.... It just is not applicable at this time. ”
- John McCain- Copy
“ The longer we stay there, the more similarities (to Vietnam) are going to come together. ”
- Chuck Hagel- Copy
“ I've interviewed a lot of veteranos and OGs. Some of them were Vietnam vets - they came back with weapons training, and dishonorable discharges, and drug addictions. ”
- Tom Hayden- Copy
“ Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike — I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam. ”
- Spiro T. Agnew- Copy
“ If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does. ”
- Ann Coulter- Copy
“ I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle. ”
- Barry Goldwater- Copy
“ Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret. ”
- Lauren Graham- Copy
“ I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy. ”
- William Westmoreland- Copy
“ No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. ”
- Richard Nixon- Copy
“ Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time. ”
- Dan Quayle- Copy
“ This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking. It is a war thrust upon us and we cannot yield to tyranny. ”
- Francis Cardinal Spellman- Copy
“ If, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world. ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
“ I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by a dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in a magnificient glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet… ”
- Jack London- Copy
“ Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood. ”
- Dick Morris- Copy
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