Phil Donahue War Quotations

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.

We [in USA] have people honestly believing that, if a president calls a war, you have to shut up and sing. That is not the nation my mother raised me to pledge my allegiance to. We should speak out. We sent thousands of Americans to foreign battlefields to protect our way of life, which includes free speech. If you're not going to use it, it's already lost. We'll find a Mussolini who will tell us what's good for us.

How many more men and women are you going to send to have their arms and legs blown off so that you can be tough and point at people in a kind of cowardly way?