Phil Klay Quotes
Though I continue to tell stories about Iraq, I sometimes fear this makes me a fraud. I feel guilty about the sorrow I feel because I know it is manufactured, and I feel guilty about the sorrow I do not feel because it is owed, it is the barest beginnings of what is owed to the fallen.
Klay, Phil. "Death and Memory." The New York Times, 28 Oct. 2010.
The President’s State of the Union Message had contained invalid claims that Iraq had tried to buy uranium in Africa. The press was attempting to determine who put the information into the draft of the President’s speech.
The Treasury Secretary had discovered a massive fraud between some whiskey distillers and some government officials whereby the government was defrauded of millions of dollars of tax revenue. One of the Federal officials Bristow wanted to indict was O. E. Babcock, the President’s personal secretary and advisor. Bristow marshaled the facts and sent a report to Grant who wrote the quoted material in the margin of the report and sent it back to Bristow. Despite Grant’s lack of personal involvement and his immediate willingness to prosecute his close friend and colleague, the stain of scandal spread to Grant and to this day is a part of any discussion of his presidency.
Lord Murray had decided to support Prince Charles in his attempt to seize the Scottish Crown. His statement is one of the great examples of self-interest yielding to principles. Note that the capitalization of “King” and “Country” are the Lord’s and reflects the majesty that these words then reflected.
Bassi was one of the unique military chaplains in history. Instead of just ministering to the men spiritually, he marched at the head of the Italian revolutionary Army and was wounded in combat. Although he never carried arms, he was executed along with those who did.
A Real is a a Brazilian unit of currency. The money was given illegally and might have determined the outcome of a national election. In an unusual example of party loyalty, he refused to implicate others in the party in the scandal. It is assumed that the money was used to bribe voters and/or local election officials to stuff the ballot boxes.
Eisenhower was then the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Forces.
Phil Klay (/ˈklaɪ/; born 1983) is an American writer. He won the National Book Award for fiction in 2014 for his first book-length publication, a collection of short stories, Redeployment. In 2014 the National Book Foundation named him a 5 under 35 honoree. He was a United States Marine officer from 2005 to 2009.
