Frankly, I would not have made any difference in Vietnam, but much more is what difference it would have made in me. – Newt Gingrich
By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam. – Nguyen Cao Ky
As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve. – Mark Shields
I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago. – Gary Sinise
The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation. – Noam Chomsky
Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam. – Daniel Ellsberg
There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication. – Noam Chomsky
From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism. – Nguyen Cao Ky
After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born at the same moment. – Nguyen Cao Ky
The U.S. cannot be the policeman of the world. When we tried that in Vietnam, they beat us up. – Newt Gingrich
I have no interest in making a ‘Vietnam’ film, no interest in making a direct political statement. – Michael Cimino
From Vietnam’s ‘Deer Hunter’ to Iraq, films are never about the person who has had his house destroyed. – Mira Nair
Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States’ initial or baptismal experience in nation-building. – Miguel Syjuco
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
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
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
In Vietnam, we took a hill and defeated the enemy; then we retreated and let the enemy take over. – Jeff Duncan
To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it’s just as awful as anything else. – Marilyn Manson
Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don’t feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet. – Sam Elliott
Experience helped Richard Nixon, but it didn’t save him, and it certainly wasn’t a blanket endorsement. He blundered terribly in dealing with Vietnam. – Robert Dallek
Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and criticizing J.F.K. – Robert Dallek
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.
It’s Kennedy’s war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it’s Kennedy’s war. – Salman Rushdie