Vietnam Quotes

A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television. Tariq Ali
War World Seen Country Mountains Every Television Crossing Brutal Beyond Blew Waged Southeast Storm Against Asia Asian Poor Then Vietnam Across Sea Europe Swept Started Every Night Night
The United States is NATO's leading military power, and President Barack Obama has required NATO to align behind a doctrine that has amounted to the most disastrous American foreign-policy debacle since Vietnam. Terry Glavin
Power NATO Military President President Barack Obama Align States Obama Leading Since Disastrous Most Doctrine American Behind Barack Barack Obama Vietnam Required Military Power United United States
There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply. Thom Gunn
War Few AIDS About Both Poetry Almost Almost All Felt Been Subjects Decades Which Us Vietnam Vietnam War Popular Deeply Last Two
But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics. Tim Holden
Struggle Veterans Honor Heroic Despite Badge Combat Pilots Continue America Brave Establish Vietnam Vietnam Veterans Acts
In retrospect, the political and cultural climate in the early '60s seems both a time of innocence and also like a sultry, still summer day in the Midwest: an unsettling calm before a ferocious storm over Vietnam, which was not yet an American war. Tom Brokaw
War Time Day Political Calm Before Innocence Summer Seems Both Unsettling Over Like Also Retrospect Climate Still Cultural Ferocious American Storm Which Midwest Vietnam Early
Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam. Tom Hayden
Neither Fonda Unconscionable Wrong She Said Nor North Did North Vietnam Vietnam
I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this. Walter Cronkite
War People Better Thought State Out About Simply Get Vietnam
What some people argue is that Vietnam stands for the proposition that there's no role for American power anywhere on earth. I don't believe that's the case at all. I think we're the strongest force for democracy and for stability on earth, and we must have a strong capacity to perform that role. Walter F. Mondale
Democracy People Strong Some People Power Believe Think Earth Must Some Case Strongest Argue Proposition Perform Force Role American Stability Anywhere Capacity Vietnam Stands
The reality is if something were to happen that cost China jobs - like, if they upwardly revalued the currency a lot - those jobs aren't going to come back to the U.S. They would go to Vietnam; they would go to Thailand. They would go to whatever country was the lowest cost. Wilbur Ross
Reality Country Whatever Back Those Jobs Would Cost Something Come Like Go Were Lot Thailand Currency Going Happen China Vietnam Lowest
East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century. William C. Kirby
War History You First Half Think Way East East Asia Seems Since Korean Korean War End Northeast The History Of Asia Century Unimaginable Vietnam Vietnam War
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
War Enemy Men Believe Difficult Unorthodox Given Been Against Uniform Vietnam Who Deserve Served Credit
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. William Westmoreland
War Confused Censorship Mind First Terribly Without Get Any Public Vietnam Public Mind Fought Ever Things
Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there. William Westmoreland
Every Out Involved Were Won Succeeded Vietnam Engagement
Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me. Yusef Komunyakaa
Me People Word Aim Kind Guns Horror Impersonal Never Spoken Look Terror How Hearts Realize Vietnam Helped Traps Violence Set
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
Me Writing Thought Took Way Systematically About Poems Write Never Had Around Been Years Vietnam
Like Vietnam, Afghanistan was never about troop levels; it is about how troops are utilized. Erik Prince
About Troop Troops Never Like How Afghanistan Vietnam Levels
For me, the way to approach a subject such as Vietnam is through storytelling. Tim O'Brien
Me Approach Way Through Subject Storytelling Vietnam
I was very head-strong, and this was the Vietnam War era - You did not listen to your parents or other authority figures. You didn't share their values. No one did in my circle. It was OK to rebel. Frances Arnold
War You Circle Values Parents Other OK No-One Share Era Very Authority Did Authority Figures Listen Vietnam Vietnam War Your Figures Rebel
In books or films, it is desirable to have a climactic battle scene, but the world does not operate in those gross dramatic terms. In Vietnam, there was a general aimlessness, not just in the physical sense, but beyond that in the moral and ethical sense. Tim O'Brien
Battle World Sense Films Dramatic Books Those Moral Physical General Scene Beyond Terms Operate Does Just Ethical Vietnam Gross Desirable
In 1978, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act after hearings exposed the F.B.I.’s egregious practice of illegally spying on civil rights leaders, black nationalists, Communists and Vietnam War protesters. Asha Rangappa
War Rights Intelligence Black Practice Congress Civil Civil Rights Leaders Foreign Passed Spying Surveillance After Vietnam Vietnam War Act Communists Exposed
I support engagement, diplomacy, and trade with Cuba, China, Vietnam, and many countries with less than stellar human rights records, because I believe that once enslaved people taste freedom and see the products of capitalism, they will become hungry for freedom themselves. Rand Paul
Freedom Capitalism Rights People Will Diplomacy Become Human Rights Believe Once I Believe I Believe That Enslaved Hungry See Records Stellar Support Countries Cuba Because Trade Than Taste Human China Themselves Vietnam Engagement Less Products Many
For me, at least, Vietnam was partly love. With each step, each light-year of a second, a foot soldier is always almost dead, or so it feels, and in such circumstances, you can't help but love. Tim O'Brien
Love Me You Soldier Circumstances Foot Step Almost Feels Dead Partly Always Least Vietnam Help Each Second
The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock. Noam Chomsky
Power Lost Distortion Invasion Surrounding Familiar Shock American Deceit Vietnam Now
I returned to Vietnam in '94, and even then, all those decades later, walking around that place, I remained afraid. And, in some ways, rightly so. Tim O'Brien
Later Ways Those Rightly Some Remained Returned Around Walking Decades Afraid Place Then Vietnam Even
Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam. Robert Kiyosaki
Leadership Great School Military Spent Years Then Vietnam Military School Two
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