Lions for Lambs

"Rome is burning, son. And the problem is not with the people that started this; they're past irredeemable. The problem is with us, all of us, who do nothing. Who just fiddle. Who try to maneuver around the edges of the flame. And I'll tell you something - there are people out there, day to day, who are fighting to make things better."

"The decisions you make now, bud, can't be changed but with years and years of hard work to redo it... And in those years you become something different. Everybody does as the time passes. You get married, you get into debt... But you're never gonna be the same person you are right now. And promise and potential... It's very fickle, and it just might not be there anymore."

"I'm still here, Todd, because I'm a selfish man. I'm selfish for the rare times when you know you have someone in your class that has rare gifts to go on and do big things on a big scale. I realized my gifts aren't my theories but my ability to recognize great potential in others and maybe give them a little shove when they need it."

"You're good with words, Todd. But you know what would make them even better? If they had a heartbeat."

"We walk, and Afghanistan reverts back to the Taliban. Only now the Taliban has metastasized into something infinitely more vicious and potent because they're now 2-0 versus superpowers. They butcher the people who helped us, who voted and were stupid enough to put their faith in our word. So call it not only the end of hope for tens of millions of Afghans, but the end of American credibility, the end of America as a force for righteousness in the world. And when we're forced to go back in a couple years, and please quote me on this, we'll be squared off against a shattered Iraq, a hopeless Afghanistan, and a nuclear Iran. How many troops are we going to need then? I guarantee you'll be adding some zeros."

"In a sense we're both on the same team. We're teammates. We're both have a responsibility. You've already sold the war. Now I'm asking you to help me sell the solution."

"We're fighting a brand of evil that thinks the last 1,300 years of human progress is heresy punishable by violent death."

"If you don't STAND for something, you might FALL for anything"

"What do you stand for? What do you fight for? What do you live for?"

"Robert Redford - Professor Stephen Malley"

"Meryl Streep - Janine Roth"

"Tom Cruise - Senator Jasper Irving (R-IL)"

"Michael Peña - Ernest Rodriguez"

"Andrew Garfield - Todd Hayes"

"Derek Luke - Arian Finch"

"Peter Berg - Lt. Col. Falco"

"Kevin Dunn - ANX Editor"