Scarecrow Quotes
"It wasn’t often that a brand-new lieutenant was given command of a prized Recon Unit, let alone a stand-alone one, but Gant was something special."
"Some said that her rapid rise to Recon command had been the result of a recommendation from no less than the President of the United States himself."
"The greatest recommendation, in the end, had come from a highly-respected Marine Gunnery Sergeant named Gena ‘Mother’ Newman."
"And somewhere in them was Libby Gant - Potential Hostage No. 1 for anyone wanting Schofield’s head."
"‘This is Fairfax,’ a young male voice came in over his earpiece."
"Jesus, Scarecrow, that’s operational information. I don’t have clearance for that. I could get arrested just for accessing it."
"‘What in God’s name was that?’ Colonel Walker yelled."
"‘This place is nuts, fucking nuts …’ Walker muttered."
"‘Think you’re gonna take me down, huh!’ she shouted in their faces. ‘Not fucking likely!’"
"The course of action has been decided upon, and we will not deviate from it."
"A Council penalty was something to be avoided."
"After decades of economic repression at the hands of Europeans, poverty-stricken African majorities no longer cared for the white man’s property rights."
"These stupid African governments just don’t have a choice."
"You’d expect better from the richest businessmen in the world."
"I didn’t take a bullet in Iraq to be called Wendel by some spineless little keyboard-tapper like you, Fairfax."
"He wants to win a far grander war, a psychological war."
"You wouldn’t believe what Hank can do on four wheels."
"The world is plunged into chaos, wondering which major city will be next."
"All we know is what Monsieur Killian has told us."
"Warfare consumes oil. Warfare consumes steel."
"The fate of the world could be resting on that man’s shoulders."
"Anything short of a nuclear strike, you do it."
"I’m not seriously supposed to let a thirty-year-old Marine captain control the entire United States Navy, am I?"
"A world of big business, global warfare is the biggest business of them all."
"If I’m going down, you’re going down with me."
"The modern Western government is but a gathering of overweight middle-aged men trying to gloss over their own mediocrity with the attainment of high office."
"Presidential planes, Prime Ministerial offices, they are but the illusion of power."
"Consider that poem by Yeats. I particularly love the notion of the falconer no longer being able to command his falcon."
"It suggests a nation that is no longer capable of controlling its most deadly weapon."
"The weapon has developed a mind of its own, realized its own deadly potential."
"It has outgrown its owner and attained dangerous independence."
"What happens when the military-industrial complex decides it no longer needs the United States Government?"
"I've got him, Boss. And he's still moving. Looks like someone took him to that French carrier off the coast."
"The Republic of France does not have friends. We have useful acquaintances."
"The 20th century was the American century. A sad bankrupt time in the history of this planet."
"The 21st century will be the French century."
"You guys are really messed up, you know that."
"I'm telling you, I don't know. I don't know about Killian or the African countries, or if they have anything in common."
"No matter how good they are, they cannot stop a man wilfully flying his plane into another."
"I turned the last good man in the world into a cold-hearted murderer."
"That damn shack was hanging from the roof of the hold. It had a hatch in the ceiling."
"But if someone wants to give me two million bucks to do it, that’s even better."
"The battle is meaningless to a suicide bomber, because he wants to win a far more important war: a psychological war."
"The only connection made to their deaths was in a confidential memo to the President of the United States. It read simply: ‘sir, it is over, majestic-12 is no more.’"
"‘Why if it isn’t my knight in shining armour,’ she said as they approached her table. ‘Aloysius, my dear. Do sit down.’"
"My dear boy, are you always so cynical? Of course, what you say is absolutely true. But it was only one small part of my reasoning."
"If they wanted certain people dead, then I wanted them alive. If they wanted to destroy the existing global order, then I did not."
"Please live again. It will take time. Believe me, I know. But do not abandon the world just yet - it can be a terrible place, but it can also be a beautiful place, and now more than ever it needs men like you."
"‘What am I doing?’ he said. ‘I’m going to try and start living again.’"
"Ultimately, however, I believe that what happens on the field, stays on the field. That said, considering this unfortunate incident and the amount of money that you have just seen go up in smoke, what do you say we consider the debt settled."
"‘Until we meet again then, Captain,’ the Demon said, standing. ‘See you on the next safari.’"
"You have done your job and done it well. By tonight, your money will be in your account. All $130.2 million of it, the equivalent I believe of seven heads."