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If, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, read more
If, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world.
Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose read more
Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose a war.
I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President read more
I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-rate power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history.
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly read more
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.
I believe that when you know something's going wrong, you make it right. That's what I learned in Vietnam. When read more
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
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen read more
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
I defended him [John McCain] in those hearings when some stupid-ass right-wing idiot accused him of being the Manchurian Candidate, read more
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.
I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.
I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.
First thing I killed was no kind of thing at all. It was an enemy soldier. Which is a hell read more
First thing I killed was no kind of thing at all. It was an enemy soldier. Which is a hell of a lot easier to say, than the first thing I ever killed was a man.