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Quotes About War

We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century.
~ William C. Kirby
We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.
~ Joni Mitchell
Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.
~ Jerry Stiller
I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.
~ Mike Mansfield
The men and women who served during the Vietnam War are often overlooked.
~ Conor Lamb
My father fought alongside Aussie and U.S. soldiers in the Vietnam War.
~ Anh Do
The price of gold was fixed at $35 an ounce in 1934, but by the time the U.S. got through the Korean War, the Vietnam war, with all the associated secular inflation, the price level had gone up nearly three times.
~ Robert Mundell
The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that.
~ Robert Hass
My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience.
~ Clarke Peters
I left the Democratic Party basically on issues of national security during the end of the Vietnam War.
~ Jim Webb
What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.
~ John Gregory Dunne
Don't forget the Vietnam War was brought to us by Democrats.
~ Mark Kurlansky
The Democratic Party has been perceived to have a deficit of credibility on defense issues since the Vietnam War, unfairly or not.
~ Joe Sestak
We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War game - the soldiers - into missing the point once again about the utter senselessness that is war.
~ Steven Weber
I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin.
~ Graham Nash
My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.
~ Robert Vaughn
Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.
~ Andrea Mitchell
One big, glaring difference I can think of between Iraq and Vietnam is the news coverage. During the Vietnam War era, you had TV coverage of the war saturating the airwaves every night, and that coverage wasn't put through a military filter at all.
~ Mark Boal
In the '50s, a lot of stories were built around radiation and the proliferation of new technology. In the '70s, there were a lot of stories that dealt with the Vietnam War. So comic books have always been a reflection of the times we live in.
~ Jim Lee
Class was always the domestic issue during the Vietnam War, not communism.
~ John Gregory Dunne
I was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War.
~ Lawrence Wright
My parents came under a provision where the government was specially looking for doctors, because the Vietnam war was happening and many doctors were overseas.
~ Asha Rangappa
My father, a Vietnam War pilot, used to tell me that the only really bad decisions are the ones you stick to even when you get facts that support a change in the mission.
~ Harris Faulkner