Heather Wilson Quotes
After Vietnam, the Democrats became fundamentally the anti-military as a party.
Heather Wilson
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I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers.
Marianne Williamson
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Newsman are the ones who - without them we don't have a civil rights movement, we don't have a women's movement, we don't have a Vietnam movement.
George Clooney
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The same people that are with me for not going to Vietnam because I saved them and their children.The same people will give me hell if I turn to them and say, 'let's free my people now'.They're with me on one part of my beliefs about the war, that's all. Not for my freedom.
Muhammad Ali
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We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout the developing world, a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.
William Westmoreland
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It was a terrible idea by the Democrats to support Hillary Clinton.
Cenk Uygur
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But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.
Lance Armstrong
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But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
Uma Thurman
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If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitious man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of hers, may be visited by cold and sordid people upon her, and upon his children also: and, in exact proportion to his success in the world, be cast in his teeth, and made the subject of sneers against him: he may, no matter how generous and good his nature, one day repent of the connection he formed in early life; and she may have the pain and torture of knowing that he does so.
Charles Dickens
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Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.
John Ruskin
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After Vietnam, the Democrats became fundamentally the anti-military as a party.
Heather Wilson
