I am the Vietcong. We are everywhere! We are all Vietcong.

When the students in the South, the blacks, started demonstrating, that was the beginning of the time of students becoming a social force around the world.

Then you have [Donald] Trump. So it could be the tightest, most hazardous race in political history and we can't afford to allow Trump to slither through. So that's where I'm at.

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

Vietnam is unique of all the countries in the world, I believe, in having the longest continuous struggle against foreign aggression of any country that has retained its national identity.

Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.

Neoconservatives and the Pentagon have good reason to fear the return of the Vietnam Syndrome. The label intentionally suggests a disease, a weakening of the martial will, but the syndrome was actually a healthy American reaction to false White House promises of victory, the propping up of corrupt regimes, crony contracting and cover-ups of civilian casualties during the Vietnam War that are echoed today in the news from Baghdad.