Vietnam sayings

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◆ The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

- Henry Kissinger99

◆ Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose a war.

- Senator John Kerry99

◆ I believe that when you know something's going wrong, you make it right. That's what I learned in Vietnam. When I came back from that war I saw that it was wrong. Some people don't like the fact that I stood up to say no, but I did

- Senator John Kerry99

◆ I defended him [John McCain] in those hearings when some stupid-ass right-wing idiot accused him of being the Manchurian Candidate, that somehow the Vietnamese had brainwashed him. This is the most unbelievably callous, degrading, nonsensical piece of crap I've ever heard in my life, coming from some chicken hawk out there, to hurl at somebody who spent as long as he did being tortured and standing up for his country, and caring about it as much as he did. It's incredible that people would behave like that, absolutely stunning.

- Senator John Kerry99

◆ As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.

- William Westmoreland99

◆ Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.

- John Pilger99

◆ I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.

- Maya Lin99

◆ Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

- Jean-Marie Le Pen99

◆ 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 Mothersbaugh99

◆ In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.

- Nong Duc Manh99

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

- Loretta Lynn99

◆ 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.

- Michael Herr99