Top 1200 Vietnam Veteran Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

You don't go after veterans in this country. If there's one thing that's sacrosanct, it is the American military veteran.

Karl Malone used a lot of veteran stuff that I thought was cool.

I had a lot of veteran guys who taught me things.

I don't think there's a more battle-hardened veteran anywhere than Larry Summers.

Me being a veteran presence, I want to see all my guys be successful.

Coming in as a veteran, I'd like to finish with a gold medal.

Just because I'm a younger artist doesn't mean I can't work with a veteran and vice versa.

For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.

A great fight that I'd love is B.J. Penn. That would be so awesome. He's a veteran of the sport. He's fought everywhere.

I've always loved the idea of the rookie cop vs. the grizzled veteran. A lot of comedy can be mined from that.

A homeless veteran should not have to stand at a freeway exit with a cardboard sign. That's not okay.

I'm a former educator, a veteran, and I have a strong energy and asset background.

As a veteran, I am always appreciative when filmmakers bring to the screen stories of those who have served.

Being around veteran leaders such as CC Sabathia and Brett Gardner really helped me.

I don't need soft talk. I'm not an old player, but a veteran. It's OK, my feelings won't get hurt.

My younger brother is a decorated combat veteran and was a platoon leader in Iraq.

Though I am not a veteran actor yet, I will do my best based on what I learned from previous experiences.

How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.

Don't compare me to veteran actor Lakshmi who immortalised Julie in director Sethumadhavan's Chattakkari.' It's so unnerving.

You don't really realize when you become a 'veteran' - it just sort of happens.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.

When you say 'never forget' to a veteran, you are implying that, as an American, you are in it with them.

Veteran employment is an issue that is very important to me and my Administration.

In para-cycling I am a veteran with Olympic medals now.

Losing is hard on all of us regardless of rookie or veteran.

I have gone to all over the country and I've met so many veterans and I have tremendous veteran support.

Those of us who finally saw through the Vietnam war saw through this war, and all the actions that were necessary to end the Vietnam war will be necessary here. I think the American people will get us out of this war.

Of course, you have politics, the Vietnam war and all that monkey business. There are all kinds of reasons. At every one of those demonstrations in the late Sixties about the Vietnam war, you could guarantee there'd be a series of speeches. The ostensible purpose was to protest the war. But then somebody came up and gave a black power speech, usually Black Muslims, then. And then you'd have a women's rights speech. It was terrible to listen to these things.

There's a lot of veteran players that, honestly, being comfortable where they play is more important. And that's just not me.

That's my job as a veteran in the league - to help make the young guys better.

Even as a child I used to mimic veteran film actors of the time.

If you get a veteran guy that's getting marginal pitches, you know you're in for a tough night and a battle.

It is a damned sight easier to start wars than to end them. This truth has been stated for as long and as often as it has been ignored. High time and thank God, we are at least moving toward de-escalation in Vietnam. The road to extrication will be long, painful, bitter. But it must be trod. We are so bogged down in Vietnam that we cannot respond effectively anywhere else in the world to a military power play except through atomic bombardment.

If you are working or a veteran or a parent, time is often the most precious commodity.

I am a veteran, I fought in a war. I've been a prosecutor. I've sent people to jail for the rest of their life.

Veteran causes are an extremely important issue, especially the transition from military to civilian life.

We understand that Nixon's aggression against Vietnam is a racist aggression, that the American war in Vietnam is a racist war, a white man's war...We deplore that you are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism. We've seen photographs of American bombs and antipersonnel weapons being dropped, wantonly, accidentally perhaps, on your heads, on the heads of your comrades.

I remember when I was a younger cat, I always thought the veteran guys talked too much.

None of the people's wars of the sixties did very well, including the one in Vietnam. Vo Nguyen Giap himself has admitted a loss of 600,000 men between 1965 and 1968...Moreover, by about 1970 at least 80% of the day-to-day combat in South Vietnam was being carried on by regular NVA troops...Genuine black-pajama southern guerrillas had been decimated and amounted to no more than 20% of the communist fighting forces.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

We've got to make sure our veteran, Democratic veterans are strengthened and feel like they are fully included.

Milan has no reservations signing veteran players and has always taken into account the image and communication factors.

Well, this movie I've been working on for a while. I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when I was doing 'Empire of the Sun' in 1987 because at that time that's when all these Vietnam movies were being made and my friends and I were going on auditions for these Vietnam movies and my friends were getting them and going away to fake boot camps.

Eisenhower managed to begin the Vietnam war by not following his normal instinct of staying out of mischief. In his memoirs, he tells us why we didn't honor the Geneva accords and hold elections in Vietnam: because some 80 percent of the country would have voted for Ho Chi Minh. This is very candid. The sort of thing one might have found in Stalin'smemoirs, had he not made ghosts even of ghosts.

For me to stay in basketball, it would just have to be a veteran team.

It is a key fact about American policy in Vietnam that the withdrawel of American troops was built into it from the start. None of the presidents who waged war in Vietnam contemplated an open-ended campaign; all promised the public that American troops would be able to leave in the not-too-remote future. The promise of withdrawel precluded a policy of occupation of the traditional colonial sort, in which a great power simply imposes its will on a small one indefinitely.

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.

Whether you're a veteran or a millennial, it's hard to argue that big government has solved your problems efficiently, if at all.

I've been to Vietnam and mainland China. Even though the Vietnamese are seemingly poor, they always stop in front of red traffic lights and walk in front of green ones. Even though mainland China's GDP is higher than that of Vietnam, if you ask me about culture, the Vietnamese culture is superior.

I've been around great veteran coaches, and they want to help you grow as a coach if you're willing to learn.

The real invasion of South Vietnam which was directed largely against the rural society began directly in 1962 after many years of working through mercenaries and client groups. And that fact simply does not exist in official American history. There is no such event in American history as the attack on South Vietnam. That's gone. Of course, It is a part of real history. But it's not a part of official history.

Veterans need employment opportunities and the development of a Hire a Veteran culture in Canada.

Wars always evolve over time, don't they? Iraq/Afghanistan is different than Vietnam, and Vietnam was different than Korea, and Korea was different than World War One, and so on. Some things remain the same, of course - one side fighting another over ideology or a patch of ground - but there are some aspects of combat life which differ radically than their predecessors.

I am a combat veteran and a working mom and a fighter, and I've already been successful taking on the dark forces in D.C.

Anyone who's been the Olympic trials before is a veteran.

The big element I think that I bring is that I am a veteran coach.

Veteran' is an exercise in editing because there is a lot of moments I took out and some that almost didn't make it.

No veteran should have to wait for claims. If there's anybody impatient here, I am that individual.

As a veteran of many campaigns, I know how important it is not let up in the last few days.