Quotes About Hanoi

#1. Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#2. The Communist leaders in Moscow, Peking and Hanoi must fully understand that the United States considers the freedom of South Viet Nam vital to our interests. And they must know that we are not bluffing in our determination to defend those interests.

Gerald R. Ford

#3. On her eighteenth birthday, my mother had disposed of a man-eating tiger that had ravaged the villages in the hills north of Hanoi. Now, without a moment's hesitation, she raised my father's gun, took aim and put a single, irreproachable bullet through my husband's head.

Angela Carter

#4. One faction views SeaWorld as a Garden Hilton for killer whales, and the other views it as a Hanoi Hilton for killer whales.

David Kirby

#5. Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective - taking over the South by force - could not be achieved.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#6. The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply unable to defeat us militarily" and must therefore eventually be forced to compromise.

William Shawcross

#7. Cats in Vietnam are also on the back paw. In January the police seized three tons of them (see picture) as they were being smuggled from China to fill soup pots in Hanoi, the Vietnamese capital. The authorities buried them, even though some were still alive.

Anonymous

#8. We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.

Hanoi Hannah

#9. This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.

Hanoi Hannah

#10. I write about what life was like for typical young women of the sixties - not the type that made headlines, the Hanoi Janes or Angela Davises, but moderates who nonetheless got swept up by history's tides during that turbulent time. All that turmoil lends itself to drama, intrigue, and murder.

Kay Kendall

#11. Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?

Tom Hayden

#12. Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.

Tom Hayden

#13. It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

William Westmoreland

#14. We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.

Hanoi Hannah

#15. Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.

Hanoi Hannah

#16. Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.

Hanoi Hannah

#17. Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.

Hanoi Hannah

#18. Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.

Hanoi Hannah

#19. American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.

Hanoi Hannah

#20. There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

Hanoi Hannah

#21. I had to do something for the country.

Hanoi Hannah

#22. I would like to see America some day.

Hanoi Hannah

#23. And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.

Hanoi Hannah

#24. How are you, G.I. Joe? It seems to me that most of you are poorly informed about the going of the war, to say nothing about a correct explanation of your presence over here. Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die.

Hanoi Hannah

#25. And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.

Hanoi Hannah

#26. I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

Hanoi Hannah

#27. Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.

Hanoi Hannah

#28. I am happy with what I've done.

Hanoi Hannah

#29. It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.

Hanoi Hannah

#30. Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and so we think that our broadcast is a support to this antiwar movement.

Hanoi Hannah

#31. Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.

Hanoi Hannah

#32. I put my heart in my work.

Hanoi Hannah