Tiny Tim Quotes

'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

THIS WILL BE FINAL MESSAGE FROM SAIGON STATION…. IT HAS BEEN A LONG FLIGHT AND WE HAVE LOST…. THOSE WHO FAIL TO LEARN FROM HISTORY ARE FORCED TO REPEAT IT. LET US HOPE THAT WE WILL NOT HAVE ANOTHER VIETNAM EXPERIENCE AND THAT WE HAVE LEARNED A LESSON. SAIGON SIGNING OFF.

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.

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

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

Vietnam is the Liberals' favorite was because America lost

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on.

In one question you are expressing a world of opinion. Because it is you who thinks that America has been mistakenly starting these conflicts. I happen to agree with you, and I will repeat what your question suggested...we have mistakenly gotten into one fracas after another. Why we do that [United States has insisted on keeping up a string of enemies, and the wars associated with creating those enemies], I think it's because we're afraid to look in the mirror and understand who we are.

We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country to do it....I do not intend to remain silent in the face of what I regard as a policy of madness which, sooner or later, will envelop my son and American youth by the millions for years to come.

The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.

My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.

If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.

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

It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.

Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.

Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.

President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.

I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate.

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

It [the Vietnam War] is worse than immoral. It's a mistake.

I know you Americans want a war but I'm not going to let you have it.