Phil Klay Quotes

I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.

Is it true that the American people are war-weary? Absolutely. We are tired of sending our sons and daughters to distant lands year after year after year, to give their lives trying to transform foreign nations.

'Shortly Thereafter' chronicles all the aspects of an Afghanistan deployment, from the terrors of the unknown that await before leaving, to the perverse thrills and adrenaline rushes found in combat, to the return home to a land and a people now more foreign than the war itself was.

I tried to read in the faces of the thousands what was in their minds this Easter day. But their faces looked blank. Obviously they do not like the war, but they will do what they’re told. Die, for instance.

We are at war, and it's ongoing, and there's no end in sight. More and more guys are coming back from it, and the transition back to civilian life is almost too big a mountain to climb.

There's a great feeling of powerlessness in America. When I express ideas to people, they say, 'That's terrific, but do you think it really counts?'

I think if people really listened to what our families who serve go through, we could have a realistic discussion of what it means to send young people to war.

I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

A lot of people don't believe in the American idea anymore.

I view the United States, today, much like East Berlin. And I'm off the grid. I've tried for 20 years to warn the country about the Democrats and Republicans, and nobody's listening.

Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.

When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when these things are heard without regard, as above or below us, then is the Commonwealth sick or dead.

There is something in this native land business and you cannot get away from it, in peace time you do not seem to notice it much particularly when you live in foreign parts but when there is a war and you are all alone and completely cut off from knowing about your country well then there it is, your native land is your native land, it certainly is.

Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world

Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later . . . some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Died some, pro patria, non "dulce" non "et decor" . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving came home, home to a lie.

Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission.

Voting really doesn't mean anything. I wish I could say something different, but I think it's kind of a sham.

How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.

I am very, very, very concerned about the United States getting drawn into an endless war, year after year after year.

That's always been the case in America; there's been a big spectrum in how much people are interested in American politics.

I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.

I think the President ought to bring everybody that's in American uniform back because we're headed for war.

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

If you love this land of the free, bring them home, bring them home, Bring them back from overseas.