I don't take criticism lying down.

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else.

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

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

I don't take criticism lying down.

As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.

My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had.

I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive.

The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.

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

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.

I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.

I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.

It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.

We had the best food any battlefield ever had.

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

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.

Without censorship things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!

The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

This issue, if not addressed, leaves any President, including George Bush, open to the criticism that they are essentially ignoring the destruction of the nation and I believe that with all my heart.

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

The other part of our proposal that gets the 'dittoheads' upset is our suggestion that the commercial radio station owners either play by the rules or pay. In other words, if they don't want to be subject to local criticism of how they are meeting their license obligations, they should pay to support public broadcasters who will operate on behalf of the local community.