Sheila Jackson Lee Quotes

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

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

Vietnam, really more accurately, Laos, was almost after Berlin the top problem at the beginning of the Kennedy Administration in '61, foreign problem.

When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.

Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and criticizing J.F.K.

Some Kennedy aides have always insisted that Johnson misread J.F.K.'s plans for Vietnam. They say that Kennedy had begun to rethink the U.S. presence in Indochina and was reluctant to increase it.

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

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

[On Vietnam:] Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat.

Polarized positions are an indulgence which … the nation cannot afford.

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

There were patriots who supported this war and patriots who opposed it.

I have never talked or corresponded with a person knowledgeable in Indochinese affairs who did not agree that had elections been held as of the time of the fighting, possibly 80 percent of the population would have voted for Ho Chi Minh.

After a long period of division, I will unite Israel.

We have a battle over the fundamentals of our country.

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

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

America is a divided country; we have always been a divided country, but even more divided now, thanks to Trump and a lot of other things, as well.

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

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.

There's just no question that the United States was trying desperately to prevent the independence of South Vietnam and to prevent a political settlement inside South Vietnam. And in fact it went to war precisely to prevent that. It finally bombed the North in 1965 with the purpose of trying to get the North to use its influence to call off the insurgency in the South.

We do not need more division. We certainly do not need something as complex and emotional as Vietnam reduced to simple campaign rhetoric.

My extended family is very political and very polar with each other, and it's put a bad taste in my mouth. All the rhetoric going back and forth and sort of hating on each other. So I'm not an extremely politically active person at this stage of my life.

There was another war-related casualty today. The French were injured when they tried to jump on our bandwagon.

The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing.