Th-th-th-th-th-th-that’s all, folks!
I’m ordering our bombers back to fail-safe. We might have to go through this thing after all.
Now then, Dmitri, you know how we’ve always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the Bomb… The Bomb, Dmitri… The hydrogen bomb!.. Well now, what happened is… ahm… one of our base commanders, he had a sort of… well, he went a little funny in the head… you know… just a little… funny. And, ah… he went and did a silly thing… Well, I’ll tell you what he did. He ordered his planes… to attack your country… Ah… Well, let me finish, Dmitri… Let me finish, Dmitri… Well listen, how do you think I feel about it?.. Can you imagine how I feel about it, Dmitri?.. Why do you think I’m calling you? Just to say hello?.. Of course I like to speak to you!.. Of course I like to say hello!.. Not now, but anytime, Dmitri. I’m just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened…
The trouble with you is you want a simple answer. There isn’t any. The war started when people accepted the idiotic principle that peace could be maintained - - by arranging to defend themselves with weapons they couldn’t possibly use - - without committing suicide. Everybody had an atomic bomb, and counter-bombs, and counter-counter bombs. The devices outgrew us; we couldn’t control them. I know, I helped build them. God, help me. Somewhere, some poor bloke probably looked at a radar screen and thought he saw something. He knew that if he hesitated one-thousands of a second - his own country would be wiped off the map. So - So, he pushed a button - and the world went - - crazy. And, and…
So I tell the cabinet, that you’re trusting in radar and praying to God, is that right?
I have a better idea. Throw an interception to Claire, get her feeling good about herself. You think you can do that?
Which brings us to… intercourse! Can I have a volunteer?
Sergeant, I won’t have one of my men doing anything I wouldn’t be prepared to do myself.
Sergeant Foley, it’s up to you!
No, you’re wrong. Now I’m leaving and I’m asking you, please, Sergeant, just leave me alone. Don’t follow me and don’t come around me. (John Philip Law’s character, Swannee, to his army sergeant Rod Steiger, in ‘The Sergeant’)
No tongues.
NO TOUCHING!!! x
“But how could you give it up?”
“I found something better.”
Who could ask for anything more?
“I did it all, I listened to the voices, I did what they told me, and not once did I ask what’s in it for me!”
“What are you saying, Ray?”
“I’m saying… what’s in it for me?”
What did you do, Ray?
I have to laugh, because I’ve outsmarted even myself. My enemy, my foe, is an animal. In order to conquer the animal, I have to learn to think like an animal. And, whenever possible, to look like one. I’ve gotta get inside this guy’s pelt and crawl around for a few days.
Well, we’ll not risk another frontal assault. That rabbit’s dynamite.
“Battalion 5, raise your hands. You will be the all-important first attack wave, which we will call ‘Operation Human Shield.’ Keep in mind, Operation Human Shield will suffer heavy losses. Battalion 14? Right. You are ‘Operation Get-Behind-the-Darkies.’ You will follow Battalion 5. Try not to get killed, for God’s sake. Are there are any questions? Yes, soldier.”
“Have you ever heard of the Emancipation Proclamation?”
“I don’t listen to hip-hop!”
Mary Todd Lincoln: I know…I know what it’s about. The ship, it’s not Wilmington Port, it’s not a military campaign! It’s the amendment to abolish slavery! Why else would you force me to invite demented radicals into my home?
[Lincoln closes the file he had in his hands]
Mary Todd Lincoln: You’re gonna try to get the amendment passed in the House of Representatives, before the term ends, before the Inauguration?
Abraham Lincoln: Don’t spend too much money on the flub dubs.
[Lincoln stand and Mary goes up to him]
Mary Todd Lincoln: No one’s loved as much as you, no one’s ever been loved so much, by the people, you might do anything now. Don’t…don’t waste that power on an amendment bill that’s sure of defeat.
[Lincoln doesn’t reply or look at her, Mary turns away from him]