Mike Mansfield Quotes

Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time.

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

The United States is involved in a war in Vietnam. American troops will stay until victory.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

Don't forget the Vietnam War was brought to us by Democrats.

The Russians feared Ike [Eisenhower, in Korea]. They didn't fear me [in Vietnam].

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.

I fought for peace in the fifties.

I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

What the hell is going on? I thought we were winning the war.

The war the soldiers tried to stop.

Enough is enough. This is how we get started in Vietnam.

I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate.

From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism.

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.

My father had gone to Vietnam.

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.

Word War III is about to start and we cannot change the position on Vietnam.

It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be US Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate.

Lyndon Johnson WAS the Vietnam War. Without the paranoia of Johnson there would never have been a Vietnam.

In order to function, the United States needs an enemy.

We we’re wrong, terribly wrong [about the Vietnam war.]