Quotes About Author

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

One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.

I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the U.S. military.

I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War's harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law and found a fulfilling career as an author and journalist. But again and again, I came back to the personal fulfillment that can only come from public service.

Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from.

I think I would have been a writer, anyhow, in the sense of having written a story every now and then, or continued writing poetry. But it was the war experience and the two novels I wrote about Vietnam that really got me started as a professional writer.

I have no interest in making a 'Vietnam' film, no interest in making a direct political statement.

The most powerful Vietnam movie, to me, was 'The Deer Hunter,' which was more about what happened to the folks who went and about their relationships.

I am of the Vietnam generation; therefore, I feel mistrustful of the military.

The Beatles and the Stones had Elvis and Hollywood, but when it came to my generation America meant Richard Nixon and Vietnam.

I left the Democratic Party basically on issues of national security during the end of the Vietnam War.

I remember being in Washington for high school when the city was on fire and those were troubling times, the Vietnam War, the protests.

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

I was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War.

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don't reflect the balance of political opinion in the country - can corrupt absolutely.

It definitely takes a long time, because Umbrella Academy' scenes are very interesting from a writing point of view with all these very off-the-cuff, oddball characters who are all different from each other.

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

My message to the Turkish people is never to view any military intervention positively because through military intervention, democracy cannot be achieved.

My own view is that left-wing positions largely come about from resentment - I agree with Nietzsche about this - a resentment about the surrounding social order. They have privileges, I don't. Or, I have them and I can't live up to them.

But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy.

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.

I have a bias, and I don't deny that. But it's not so much an emotional attachment with objects that we study: it's a point of view based on the evidence. We simply know more about Enceladus.

I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.