Quotes About Conflict

America never formally surrenders, so we have to call surrender something else. In Vietnam, we called it Vietnamization.

It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.

After Vietnam, the Democrats became fundamentally the anti-military as a party.

Ho Chi Minh and Vietnam were perfect for Lyndon Johnson: 220 million against 18 million, water buffalo and all. No risk, really.

Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.

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

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.

I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

Being in Vietnam and being around a major story of the time was always a great shot of adrenaline.

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

I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate.

If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.

I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.

With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story.

Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.

McCain fought in Vietnam - I think that he has enough civilian blood on his hands.

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

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.

When downed American pilots were first taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 1964, U.S. policy became pretty much to ignore them - part and parcel of President Lyndon B. Johnson's determination to keep the costs of his increasingly futile military escalation in Southeast Asia from the public.

In books or films, it is desirable to have a climactic battle scene, but the world does not operate in those gross dramatic terms. In Vietnam, there was a general aimlessness, not just in the physical sense, but beyond that in the moral and ethical sense.

It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.