“You're not supposed to risk your life just for the physical safety of ...” — Phil Klay Quote

You're not supposed to risk your life just for the physical safety of American citizens - you're supposed to risk your life for American ideals as well.

You come back from war, and you have a certain authority to talk about war.

It's often difficult to get perspective on your own stories, on your own experiences, without talking them through with someone who is genuinely interested in thinking about them. And that's the key.

I didn't want to write a 'this is how it is' Iraq book, because the Iraq War is an intensely complicated variety of things.

Less than 1 percent of American have served in 12 years of war, and serious public conversation about military policy is sorely lacking.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens.

With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.

We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.