Tom Engelhardt > Quotes

“Perhaps the reason memoirs are so often written by the young these days is that, once you reach a certain age, only fiction might allow you to truly make your way back to childhood.”
― Tom Engelhardt, The United States of Fear

“Congressional oversight: When a congressional representative forgets to do something. (Historical note: this phrase once had another meaning, but since 9/11, years in which Congress never heard a wish of the national security state that it didn’t grant, no one can quite remember what it was.)”
― Tom Engelhardt, Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World

“years, no goal of Washington—not a single one—has been accomplished by war.”
― Tom Engelhardt, A Nation Unmade by War