“Someone said this at some point about why we stayed when we knew we were losing. Ten percent was to help the South Vietnamese. Twenty percent was to hold back the Commies. Seventy percent was to avoid the humiliation of an American defeat. Seventy percent of those boys just to avoid being humiliated? That stuck with me.”
Matthew Rhys - Daniel Ellsberg

“You don't defeat an empire fighting by their rules. Once upon a time it was the Americans who were terrorists to the British. They're forgetting their history already.”
Saïd Taghmaoui - Omar

“We have a right to fight for our country. The same as every other American.”
Terrence Howard - Colonel A.J. Bullard

“They represent American youth who love their country and are glad to fight for it, wherever crime raises its ugly head to strike with the venom of a maddened rattlesnake.”

Knox Manning - Narrator

“- Prince Nasir Al-Subaai: What are they thinking, my brother and these American lawyers?
- Bryan Woodman: What are they thinking? They're thinking that it's running out. It's running out... and ninety percent of what's left is in the Middle East. This is a fight to the death.”

Alexander Siddig - Prince Nasir Al-Subaai
Matt Damon - Bryan Woodman