Sam Donaldson Quotes

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

I wish that George W. Bush had gone to Vietnam, because he would have seen history in a different light. He would've experienced it in a different light because I don't think he understood the nature of war.

I never would've imagined in the first part of my life that I could've stood up and said anything. The war in Vietnam changed me. I was so angry. Some of my speeches probably weren't well considered.

President Bush is not fazed by other candidates' war records. He said, I may have not fought in Vietnam, but I created one.

I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.

Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war.

Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.

How much blood makes a 'bloodbath'?

Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it.

The hardest thing for me in Vietnam wasn't seeing the wounded and dead. It was watching the big transport jets come in, bringing loads of fresh new boys for the war.

The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.

The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam.

We learned some bad things, and the Vietnam War led to some bad conclusions. We're not the greatest generation, that's for sure.

They say actually every time I enter the ring, in a way, I'm going to the war. They say to me daily, you are a prized fighter, what's the difference? And I like to say to those critics of the press and the others that there is one hell of a lot of difference in fighting in a ring and going to war in Vietnam.

World War II is smothered in sentimentality and nostalgia. What's interesting about Vietnam is that sentimentality is just not there, so you're given kind of a clean access to it in one way. It's also a war that represents a failure for the United States. Many people came back feeling like they never wanted to talk about it again. And so we developed a national amnesia.

I hate to say it, but I had a great time in World War II.

When your blood is found at the murder scene, that's the end of the ball game, there's nothing more to say.

I know what war's like. I know what scene's like.

Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs?

My film isn't about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. It's what it was really like. It was crazy. And the way we made it was very much like the way the Americans were in Vietnam. We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment and little by little we went insane.

Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the other. All of that has disappeared thanks to Lyndon Johnson.

The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.

During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not.