Win The Life

I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand.-Terry Gilliam

 

I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.-Ed Bradley

 

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.-Birch Bayh

 

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

 

I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.-Robert Jay Lifton

 

I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate.-David Cross

 

I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way.-William Odom

 

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.-Parker Stevenson

 

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.-John F. Kerry

 

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

 

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.-Brendan Fraser

 

I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement.-Jon Voight

 

I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.-Mike Mansfield

 

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.-Benjamin Spock

 

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.-Sammy Davis, Jr.

 

I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.-Stephen Ambrose

 

I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.-Loretta Lynn

 

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

 

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.-Neil Sheehan

 

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.-Oliver North

 

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.-Vida Blue

 

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

 

It's shades of Vietnam again, folks: body counts.-Seymour Hersh

 

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.-Ronald Reagan

 

John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there.-Max Cleland

 

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.-William Westmoreland

 

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.-Jean-Marie Le Pen

 

More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to an end, and after the American people had already decided that they did not want one more soldier to die in Vietnam.-Raul Grijalva

 

My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.-Francis Ford Coppola

 

My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.-Madeleine Albright

 

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.-Robert Vaughn

 

Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job.-Stephen Ambrose

 

Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.-Daniel Ellsberg

 

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.-Richard M. Nixon

 

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

 

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.-John F. Kennedy

 

Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions.-Phillip Noyce

 

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.-Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.-Lyndon B. Johnson

 

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.-Lyndon B. Johnson

 

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place. – Unknown

 

This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity. – Unknown

 

Tell the Vietnamese they've got to draw in their horns or we're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age. – Unknown

 

We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves. – Unknown

 

I see light at the end of the tunnel. – Unknown

 

Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that. – Unknown

I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war. – Unknown

 

This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart. – Unknown

 

We believe that peace is at hand. – Unknown

 

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.- Bob Dylan

 

"I was too shocked to cry, too confused to take notes or ask questions, too bewildered to even think-Martin Luther King, Jr

 

North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that. – Unknown

 

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. – Unknown

 

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.- Unknown

 

All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it-J. G. Ballard

 

To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.- Unknown

 

Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters. - Willie Stargell

I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable. - U Thant

 

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam. - Bruce Jackson