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

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.

Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy.

The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges.

The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.

We won't always have the strongest military.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

All of us who are convinced that our military needs all the support the government and public will provide are pleased that he will have his chance to do just that.

Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?

I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission.

Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal.

In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world.

We know that the decisions we reach will have a profound impact on the communities hosting our military installations, and more importantly, on the people who bring those communities to life.

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

We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.

An overstretched military undermines homeland security and our ability to meet threats around the world.

Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.

The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

There is a difference between a military mission and the aspiration for the long-term plans for the country. What we want is a stable enough Afghanistan, able to look after its own security so we can leave without the fear of it imploding... But let's be clear - it's not going to be perfect.