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

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.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

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.

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.

Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.

If he didn't fall in love he would have never come back near the end of the film. Because, what man is going to dishonor himself so that he comes back in front of the man that took a woman away from him... and warns her to save her life?

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.

Will Arnett is one of the funniest guys I know. He has seen it all and done it all and come out the other end pretty savvy and pretty strong.

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecutions began to happen. A member of staff at the Royal Court ordered to stop the play, and the police were brought in.

A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.