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

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.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.

Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help.

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got.

We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.

The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor.

Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.