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"When we do work in places like China and Vietnam, research tends to be really effective as a way of getting change, whereas in more open places, mobilization and the creation of public pressure through the media often seem to be the things we try."
"I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt as if it was going to trickle down to me."
"During the Democratic presidential debate Howard Dean started off by apologizing to the crowd for having a cold. Then John Kerry apologized for once having a cold while serving his country in Vietnam."
"I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on for centuries perpetuating itself."
"The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either."
"Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq."
"I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam."
"I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was just lost after that war. As were many Americans."
"The International Control Commission isn't doing anything, it's never done anything. What good does it do to be on it or not? Before opening the embassy in Hanoi, I gave it a lot of thought, but it wasn't really a painful decision. American policy in Vietnam is what it is, in Saigon the situation is anything but normal, and I'm happy to have done what I did."
"After Vietnam, the Democrats became fundamentally the anti-military as a party."
"By that time [1966], we did begin to get some protests [against Vietnam War]. But not from liberal intellectuals; they never opposed the war."
"There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication."
"In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it's worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started - an outright war started in 1962."
"[After Vietnam] the type of interventions that are carried out are designed so as not to elicit public reactions."
"We could not bring democracy to South Vietnam at a cost that we were willing to accept. So it was a disaster. That' is the left extreme."
"A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere."
