Vietnam

“If they want to assassinate me, it's easy. After that, just blame it on the Việt Cộng or a coup d'etat plot.”

“They have back-stabbed us.”

“No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much. Never have the consequences of their misunderstanding been so tragic.”

“I used to see Vietnam as a war rather than a country.”

“Whatever you think... America wasn't stealing from the Vietnamese.”

“This is the largest anti-Chinese demonstration I have ever seen in Hanoi. Our patience has limits. We are here to express the will of the Vietnamese people to defend our territory at all costs. We are ready to die to protect our nation.”

“All independent religions are banned [in Vietnam]. Only economically speaking we are better [since the collapse of South Vietnam in 1975]. But politically speaking nothing changes.”