Tony Snow Quotes

You think Vietnam was bad? Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo.

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• It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • War
  • Got
  • Vietnam

• I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.

  

  U Thant
  • Present
  • Afraid
  • Washington

• I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • People
  • Nervous
  • Newspapers

• The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the EU and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.

  

  Atifete Jahjaga
  • Believe
  • True
  • Friendship

• During the Vietnam War era people were concerned about what was going on economically in their lives, and film studios were worried about what was going on with the box office

  

  Neil Meron
  • People
  • War
  • Concerned

• 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
  • Up
  • Home
  • War

• On Kosovo, let me be quite clear that NATO will not stand idly by. We will not allow a repeat of the situation of 1991 in Bosnia.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Situation
  • Repeat
  • NATO

• 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
  • Movement
  • Rights
  • Vietnam

• 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
  • Children
  • Vietnam
  • Same People

• 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.
  • Role
  • Investment
  • Vietnam

• 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.
  • Action
  • Justice
  • Morality

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

  

  William Westmoreland
  • Military
  • Involved
  • Engagement

• 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?

  

  William Westmoreland
  • Impossible
  • Ends
  • Vietnam

• A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Country
  • Crazy
  • Vietnam

• "In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law"

  

  Nông Đức Mạnh
  • Law
  • Vietnam
  • Prisoners

• We want to bring better products to Vietnam. My hope is through changes in lifestyle and the products we consume, it will affect the people and change the way they are thinking.

  

  Pham Nhat Vuong
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Products

• Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any attempt to salvage self-respect from the outcome compounded the wrong. I viewed it as a genuine tragedy. No one had a monopoly on anguish.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Critics
  • Vietnam
  • Self-respect

• So I was the son of a man who had Vietnam living inside him. Yeah I had all kinds of reasons for feeling sorry for myself. Being fifteen didn't help. Sometimes I thought that being fifteen was the worst tragedy of all.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Sorry
  • Tragedy
  • Reasons

• “I say to myself, go on seeking, be glad for being sensitive, be glad you're able to go beyond the resistance inside you. It is our resistance to what we experience that makes creativity possible. So don't get rid of resistance like that by going around it or trying to eliminate it. Our own limitations put up strong resistance, but it's because of that that we are creators”

  

  Brother Roger
  • Resistance
  • Seeking
  • Creators

• I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Television
  • Stage
  • Broadway

• While 'Teachers' may have had its following, it was on late-night Channel Four, whereas 'EastEnders' was seen by millions and millions of people. I certainly don't have the cache to sell a programme like that, and certainly nobody's coming up and asking me to.

  

  Raquel Cassidy
  • People
  • Teachers
  • Coming

• You think Vietnam was bad? Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo.

  

  Tony Snow
  • Vietnam
  • Kosovo