Neil Sheehan Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.”

“Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.”

“We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.”

“At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it's done, it's published. I won't write another book on Vietnam.”

“The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldn't bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong.”