Nguyen Cao Quotes

#1. I have been blessed often by Buddha, but equally by America.

Nguyen Cao Ky

#2. By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.

Nguyen Cao Ky

#3. If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.

Nguyen Cao Ky

#4. After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.

Nguyen Cao Ky

#5. Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.

Margaret Cavendish

#6. After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born at the same moment.

Nguyen Cao Ky

#7. And then when they picked me as premiere, I don't think I feel, you know, different. For me, the position mean responsibility, but that's all.

Nguyen Cao Ky

#8. I never staged a coup. They picked me up. Like I say, they forced me to become premier, maybe hoping that by that way, they send me to the electric chair.

Nguyen Cao Ky

#9. Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.

Nguyen Cao Ky

#10. If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes.

Nguyen Cao Ky

#11. We stop practice every time we see one of our players not blocking out.

Jim Calhoun

#12. We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other.

Nguyen Cao Ky

#13. Love: The heart wants what it wants. It doesn't seek other people's opinions; sometimes not even your own.

Steve Maraboli

#14. That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.

Bill O'Reilly

#15. People often focus on the downsides of population growth but neglect the upsides. These upsides may even outweigh the downsides, making a larger population a good thing overall.

Ian Goldin

#16. Kenya DOES NOT belong to 2 tribes only. Kenya has 42 tribes. to say that the decision of 2 tribes is the decision of the whole country is fallacy and outright dictatorship and tribalism
Akuku Mach Pep, Democracy on Trial

Akuku Mach Pep

#17. The attitude of the Church was not as dogmatic as is often assumed. Interpretations of Bible passages had been revised in the light of scientific research before. Everyone regarded the earth as spherical and as freely floating in space though the Bible tells a different story.

Paul Feyerabend

#18. We must understand that our education now is going to be sincerity, to speak from your own heart and not from outside.

Nirmala Srivastava

#19. During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions.

Nguyen Cao Ky

#20. Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy.

Nguyen Cao Ky

#21. The way Americans understand and treat other peoples almost guarantees that the world will suffer more trouble.

Nguyen Cao Ky

#22. By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies.

Nguyen Cao Ky

#23. Television networks are a lot like automobile manufacturers or anyone else who's in commerce. If something out there catches on with the public ... I guess you can call it 'market research.'

Glen A. Larson

#24. South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake.

Nguyen Cao Ky

#25. From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism.

Nguyen Cao Ky

#26. Since man, fragment of the universe, is governed by the same laws that preside over the heavens, it is by no means absurd to search there above for the themes of our lives, for those frigid sympathies that participate in our achievements as well as our blunderings.

Marguerite Yourcenar