Vietnam Quotes - Page 18

• You really had to learn to protect yourself from all Gooks in Vietnam, or else you would end up dead.

  Peter P. Mahoney

  Ends, Protect, Protect Yourself

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• Perhaps the thing that most got to me was the ide - the whole thing about lying, and how pervasive lying about Vietnam was.

  Peter P. Mahoney

  Lying, Whole

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• The New York Times is reporting that back in the '60s, presidential candidate Howard Dean used a letter from a doctor about a back condition to keep himself out of the draft in Vietnam and then spent 10 months skiing. Well it sounds like he's done the impossible. He actually made Bill Clinton and George Bush look like war heroes.

  Jay Leno

  New York, War, Hero

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• Is it me or is Bush going everywhere Kerry goes? So far in the past week, President Bush has followed John Kerry to Davenport, Iowa; New Mexico; Las Vegas; Los Angeles; and he follows him to Portland, Oregon. The only place he never followed John Kerry was Vietnam.

  Jay Leno

  Past, Vegas, Portland Oregon

  "Bush Goes Off Message". www.washingtonpost.com. August 13, 2004.

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• President Bush's campaign is now attacking John Kerry for throwing away some of his medals to protest the Vietnam War. Bush did not have any medals to throw away, but in his defense he did have all his services records thrown out.

  Jay Leno

  War, President, Defense

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• America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.

  John le Carre

  War, Pigs, America

  "British Novelist John le Carré on the Iraq War, Corporate Power, the Exploitation of Africa and His New Novel, “Our Kind of Traitor”". "Democracy Now" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 25, 2010.

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• I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

  Charles de Gaulle

  Money, Military, War

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• The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.

  Marion Barry

  Peace, War, Sacrifice

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• It was a tough press conference for President Bush. He spent the first ten minutes trying to pronounce Fallujah. ... Bush insisted that Iraq is not Vietnam. Of course not, he avoided Vietnam.

  David Letterman

  Iraq, Trying, President

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• President Bush is not fazed by other candidates' war records. He said, I may have not fought in Vietnam, but I created one.

  Craig Kilborn

  War, President, Records

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• Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.

  Paula Scher

  War, Fonts, Helvetica

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• The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Movement, Massive

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers". Interview with Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. December 1, 2013.

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• Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War)

  Paul Harvey

  War, Love You, President

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• Hillary Clinton will travel to Vietnam with the president this Friday. It's a fact that at the height of the war in 1971, she tried to enlist in the Marines, but they turned her down. Apparently we weren't that mad at the Viet Cong.

  Argus Hamilton

  Friday, War, Marine

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• I am not haunted by memories of Vietnam. But I must admit I never thought we would again witness in my lifetime the specter of politicians picking targets and ruling out offensive measures in the absurd hope that the enemy would respond to our restraint by yielding to our demands.

  John McCain

  Memories, Enemy, Target

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• With respect to where we are now, we have a voluntary army. And if we ever go back to conscription I hope that at time it will be the kind of conscription that was put in at the end of the Vietnam War. And that is, everybody is equally liable to be called to serve the nation in time of conflict.

  Colin Powell

  War, Army, Kind

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• What really happened in Vietnam was- all these things are away games for the American military. We're not on our home turf, which means to succeed there has to be a partner. And the definition of partnership is someone willing to risk their lives in their home area to prevail because they think it's necessary to build a decent life and a better life for their people.

  William J. Clinton

  Military, Home, Mean

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I flew in combat in Vietnam. I got shot at, I shot back, I got shot down. Compared to this flight, I felt a lot safer in combat.

  Dick Rutan

  Aviation, Flight, Flew

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• I think we fought Vietnam for the benefits of civilization, and certainly we fought it to oppose authority. To show our authority, to show we weren't weak. Isn't that what Nixon kept saying? "We have to show the world that we're not weak." So of course what we ended up showing the world was that we were, yep, weak. 'Cause we couldn't beat these kids in black pajamas.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Thinking, Civilization

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• People look at things differently. Imagine going to a village in Southern Sudan and try to explain to someone there the concept of life insurance or retirement. Go to Vietnam and say retirement. Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can't work anymore. So you move in with your son and his new wife takes care of you because that's how families work there.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Retirement, Pain

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• I can tell you exactly where the economy is going. It's going to China, Honduras, Guatemala, Cambodia, Vietnam, Cipan, and any other place where you can pay people peanuts and have them work like dogs.

  Henry Rollins

  Dog, People, Guatemala

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• I put the Vietnam War behind me a long time ago, and what I wanted to (do) among other things was help veterans also be able to come all the way home as some of our veterans have not been able to do. But I harbor no anger nor rancor. I'm a better man for my experience, and I'm grateful for having the opportunity of serving.

  John McCain

  War, Grateful, Home

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• During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Taken, Bananas

  Kurt Vonnegut (2017). “A Man Without a Country”, p.108, Dial Press

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• When I was in Vietnam with Jane Fonda, I was shooting a farmer in a field - just a pastoral scene. And while I was shooting him, an explosion occurred right - he blew up right in my lens, so to speak. And he had stepped on a landmine.

  Haskell Wexler

  Lenses, Shooting, Fields

  "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• They say actually every time I enter the ring, in a way, I`m going to the war. They say to me daily, you are a prized fighter, what`s the difference? And I like to say to those critics of the press and the others that there is one hell of a lot of difference in fighting in a ring and going to war in Vietnam.

  Muhammad Ali

  War, Fighting, Differences

  The Rachel Maddow Show, www.msnbc.com. December 30, 2015.

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