#vietnam

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security. ↗

— George McGovern

#conflicts #diminished #i #iraq #iraq war

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#battlefields #brought #brutality #comfort #into

I'd rather go to Vietnam than get married. ↗

— Joe Namath

#get married #go #i #married #rather

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

#both #both sides #coin #consider #course

It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous. ↗

— John Negroponte

#cambodia #communist #conditions #enormous #even

It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail. ↗

— Jeanette Rankin

#american women #committed #could #died #end

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#christmas #could #country #home #how

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#could #country #declare #home #north

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

— Madeleine Albright

#mind-set #most #munich #vietnam

John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there. ↗

— Max Cleland

#did #end #john #kerry #service