Ambassador Thomas Kelly Quotes in Salvador (1986)

Ambassador Thomas Kelly: [about the government in El Salvador] A pathological killer on the right, God-knows-what on the left, and a gutless middle.

Richard Boyle: [about his girlfriend] I mean they could come tonight, take her away and they could kill her too!

Ambassador Thomas Kelly: Richard, Richard... that doesn't have anything to do with us. And you know the laws of this country. She's gonna have to go back to her home town.

Jack Morgan - State Department Analyst: Do you want to go down in the history books as the man who lost El Salvador?

Ambassador Thomas Kelly: That's hardly the issue here! We're talking about human lives here! We're not playing some computer game! Jesus, history books? God!