Bo Gritz Quotes

Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace. I would look for a better human rights record for North Vietnam, but they are living side by side.

I still remember, as a kid, tying a yellow ribbon around a tree in front of my house during the 444 days that Iran held 52 Americans hostage. Iran is not a place we should be doing business with.

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

In the 1980s, the U.S. Army invaded two Caribbean countries, Grenada and Panama, to depose leaders who had defied Washington.

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

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

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

We now prepared authorize bombing specific targets in [Guatemala City] area since you and feel this now the most effective move to achieve success. Targets should be selected with a view to having desired effect on army and regime morale with minimum political cost to [the United States].

The president refuses to say… refuses to say that the objective over there is victory.

Our best chance of success is a policy of sustained reprisal against North Vietnam. We believe the risks of such a policy are real but acceptable. Measured against the cost of defeat, this program seems cheap.

I agree that obviously we cannot retreat from our position in Vietnam…. But we are going to have to muddle through for a while and see what we do.

America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.

In the '80s, we at least had the idea of diplomacy.

The United States and the D.P.R.K. will not overcome a legacy of 70 years of war and hostility on the Korean Peninsula through the course of a single Saturday.

No matter what President Trump says, Russia is an adversary and a threat - look no further than their invasion of Crimea.

Kissinger was surely one of the very few statesmen to try to do something positive to break the log jam of the Cold War; to try to end the war in Vietnam; to bring a halt to the cycle of war in the Middle East.

You've got to remember the Cold War was a very real thing then, so the relationship with the United States was very, very important. As was the relationship that I was developing with China: that was something I did very much. And they weren't conflicting things.

I don't object to its being called "McNamara's war." I think it is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever I can to win it.

I don't believe that Russia's a threat for Europe. I think that's a big scam.

The Chinese view us as an enemy, very, very militant toward the United States, and I don't even think the United States knows it.

The French are always reticent to surrender to the wishes of their friends and always more than willing to surrender to the wishes of their enemies.

The White House announced plans to begin normalizing relations with Cuba - this as we're awkwardizing relations with Russia.

Katrina did not declare a truce on Iraq.

President Trump also mentioned that under the right conditions, he is willing to engage in dialogue with North Korea.

In the United States, Iran is nothing but a whipping-boy. Few Americans have any real use for Iran. Most of us, what we know and remember about Iran are things like the hostage crisis in 1980, or they think about the Iranian attacks in Lebanon, or on the Khobar Towers. So you don't get a whole lot of political mileage in the United States by going out and advocating better relations with the Iranians.