Charles B. Rangel Quotes

I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.

This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

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

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

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

I'm old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.

Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective - taking over the South by force - could not be achieved.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

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

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

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

My father had gone to Vietnam.

I remember in the spring of 1971, a hundred thousand people converged on the Pentagon in June of 1971. They threw blood; I guess it was goat's blood or something, on the steps to the Pentagon. People were being accused of being murderers and baby killers. You just can't imagine the civic outrage.

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

South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon.

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

We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong.

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

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

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

I am fed up with war and the clamor for war.

I have one more problem for your computer. How long will take five hundred thousand angry Americans to climb that White House wall out there and lynch their President if he does something like that?

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

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