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- Dressler: [to his sympathizers] Most people believe that the 20th century was a death struggle between Communism and Capitalism, and that Fascism was but a hiccup. But today we know better. Communism was a fool's errand. The followers of Marx gone from this earth, but the followers of Hitler abound and thrive. Hitler, however, had one great disadvantage. He lived in a time when Fascism, like a virus... like the AIDS virus... needed a strong host in order to spread. Germany was that host. But Germany did not prevail. The world was too big. Fortunately, the world has changed. Global communications, cable TV, the internet. Today the world is smaller and a virus does not need a strong host in order to spread. The virus... is airborne. One more thing. Let no man call us crazy. They called Hitler crazy. But Hitler was not crazy. He was stupid. You don't fight Russia *and* America. You get Russia and America to fight each other... and destroy each other.
- Bill Cabot: What's the t-shirt say?
- Depot Worker: "I am a bomb technician, if you see me running...
- [laughs]
- Depot Worker: ... try to catch up."
- [en route to Russia]
- Cabot: Jack... Jack, what are you doing?
- Jack: Oh... I had a date tonight, so I had to call and cancel...
- Cabot: Well, don't be stupid! Tell her where you're going. In fact, tell her who you work for. She'll be impressed.
- Jack: [to Cathy, over the phone] OK. I work for the CIA, and the Director asked me at the last minute to come with him to Russia with him to do a nuclear arms inspection. Hello?
- Cathy: That is so lame.
- Jack: No, I swear, it's because of the START treaty, we get to inspect to make sure they're really decommissioning their nuclear arsenal...
- [Cathy hangs up]
- Jack: Hello... hello?
- [Cabot starts laughing]
- Jack: Thanks. Thanks a lot.
- President Robert Fowler: [during the White House correspondents dinner] My beautiful wife, Julie, is from New Jersey. 15 electoral votes... and is, as you know, half Jewish. So we'll take Florida's 25 electoral votes and divide by 2. My daughter, Jeanie, is expecting her first child. If it's a girl, she will be named Virginia. 13 electoral votes. In fact, even if it's a boy, he'll be named Virginia. She reminds me that I have publicly acknowledged that as a young Marine officer in Vietnam, I did, on a handful of occasions, smoke marijuana.
- [pause]
- President Robert Fowler: California. 54 electoral votes.
- Cabot: [to Jack] You're about to breathe air that's way over your pay grade so listen up. You're going to be asked for analysis and advice, so be God damn sure you know what you're talking about before you give it. Don't be afraid to say you don't know. Choose your words carefully, words have a habit of being turned into policy.
- President Nemerov: [referring to his defectors] Just disappear them. Their execution would tell the world I didn't have control. These days, better to appear guilty than impotent.
- Jack Ryan: I don't go on the-the, you know, missions.
- John Clark: Relax, 007, it's not a mission. It's just a recce.
- Jack Ryan: Well, okay, fine, whatever you call it, I'm not... I don't do that. I just write reports.
- John Clark: Okay. So write a report about it.
- [just before he falls over dead]
- Zorkin: [to his aids and advisors] I am to be described as "robust" and "healthy."
- President Nemerov: For you to get involved here, its like sleeping with another mans wife... and what you are suggesting is that afterwards they all live together under the same roof... but what really happens is that the betrayed husband goes out and buys a gun.
- President Fowler: Order the planes to stand down, take us to DEFCON-3... and will somebody ask Mr. Ryan if I can use the phone now?
- Bill Cabot: Mr. Chairman, uh, some of our assets in the Russian government who actually know Mr. Nemerov have not had a chance to report in. I'd like to take a couple of days and get more information for you before characterizing him. But I do maintain my opinion that appearances can be deceiving.
- Senator Jessup: So you're saying I'm wrong?
- Bill Cabot: Absolutely, Mr. Chairman. I don't think you're ugly.
- [after an unpleasant silence, after Jack unintentionally and indirectly insulted Nemerov]
- President Nemerov: [to Cabot, about Ryan] I like him.
- Bill Cabot: In that case, so do I.
- Dressler: [to his sympathizers] Most people believe that the 20th century was a death struggle between Communism and Capitalism, and that Fascism was but a hiccup. But today we know better. Communism was a fool's errand. The followers of Marx gone from this earth, but the followers of Hitler abound and thrive. Hitler, however, had one great disadvantage. He lived in a time when Fascism, like a virus... like the AIDS virus... needed a strong host in order to spread. Germany was that host. But Germany did not prevail. The world was too big. Fortunately, the world has changed. Global communications, cable TV, the internet. Today the world is smaller and a virus does not need a strong host in order to spread. The virus... is airborne. One more thing. Let no man call us crazy. They called Hitler crazy. But Hitler was not crazy. He was stupid. You don't fight Russia *and* America. You get Russia and America to fight each other... and destroy each other.
- President Fowler: We have finally learned, at far too great a cost, that if the most powerful weapons ever created are ever unleashed, they will be fired not in anger... but fear.
- Jack Ryan: General, the President is basing his decisions on some really bad information right now. And if you shut me out, your family, and my family, and twenty-five million other families will be dead in thirty minutes.
- President Fowler: We gotta update these fire drills, Billy. I mean, if the shit ever hits the fan, I'm not going underground. This place is a goddamn tomb down there!
- Bill Cabot: We've also gotta choose someone else to face off against besides the Russians all the time.
- President Fowler: Really? Let's see. Who else has 27,000 nukes for us to worry about?
- Bill Cabot: It's the guy with one I'm worried about.
- President Fowler: And don't underestimate Zorkin, pal. Between his economy, crime, Chechnya...
- Cabot: His liver.
- President Fowler: What's left of it. How is he, by the way?
- Cabot: He's got a press conference scheduled for this afternoon. So at least we know he can sit up.
- [arguing about the Russian President's health]
- Jack: I'm just saying Zorkin's putting on weight. Really, I don't know why you guys have to reduce everything to sex. It's just disgusting.
- Dressler: So what shall we make of Chechnya, asking the West for protection? She is like a beautiful virgin, escaping the clutches of a lecherous bear... and running to Bill Clinton to save her maidenhood.
- [Jack is negotiating with President Nemerov over the Hot Line]
- Jack: Sir, I know you. I know you had nothing to do with the Baltimore bomb, and you sure as hell know you didn't! But you're still about to launch a nuclear strike against us! This no longer has anything to do with Baltimore! Now it's about fear! Our fear of your missiles, your fear of our subs, fear of being weak, fear of making a mistake... the same fear of the other guy that had us build these goddamn bombs in the first place!
- [last lines]
- Anatoli Grushkov: A modest gift got your engagement.
- Cathy: He just asked me this morning.
- Jack: We, uh, we haven't told anybody. How did you... how could you possibly know?
- Anatoli Grushkov: [gives a jovial shrug and walks away]
- Jack Ryan: Who's the guy with Nemerov?
- Bill Cabot: Anatoli Grushkov.
- Jack Ryan: Old KGB?
- Bill Cabot: Been lurking around since Brezhnev, plays all sides and nobody's had the guts to get rid of him.
- Jack Ryan: Is that because he knows where all the bodies are buried?
- Bill Cabot: Probably because he buried them himself.
- Jack Ryan: [Clark tosses him a gun] Clark.
- John Clark: What?
- Jack Ryan: No. I'm not going in there.
- John Clark: You're God damn right you're not. You're gonna stay here and make sure nobody steals my boat. Be right back.
- John Clark: Whatever it is they were spray-painting was big. About the size of a fridge. The imprint it left was pretty deep, too. So we know three things for sure: it was heavy, something was radioactive, and now it's gone.
- Jack Ryan: You said one of them spoke English?
- John Clark: South African.
- Jack Ryan: Okay, so the question is what's a South African doing in the Ukraine with three Russian scientists and a crate from Israel?
- John Clark: [something clicks] Tell Cabot I'll call him from Haifa.
- Jack Ryan: I have a feeling you better hurry.
- [over the Hot Line, after the carrier attack]
- President Nemerov: [in Russian] I ordered no such attack. You must not respond to this action until we have investigated all possibilities.
- President Fowler: Like you did in Chechnya? Mr. President, who is in control of your armed forces?
- President Nemerov: [in Russian] You dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. You dropped the bomb on Nagasaki. Do not lecture me on Chechnya!
- [aboard the command plane]
- Owens: Are you advocating we launch a first strike...
- Becker: [shouts] It is not a first strike! There's already been a first strike! And a second! Don't you get it?
- Owens: No! I don't get it! I don't understand why we have to nuke them, for God's sake!
- [shouts]
- Owens: It's not reasonable!
- President Fowler: Sidney, goddamnit! They practically sank an aircraft carrier! Their missile silos are hot! We're getting nothing but bullshit from Nemerov! And let's not forget how this thing started, OK? They tried to kill *me*, remember! So don't fucking tell me to be reasonable!
- Revell: We've got activity on the Hot Line.
- President Fowler: They had their chance.
- Revell: No, no. Someone's talking *to* the Kremlin.
- John Clark: Mr. Ghazi, I'm not the police. I'm a physician. I assure you that anything you say to me stays between us.
- Mary Pat Foley: [after President Zorkin dies] He died at 0420 Zulu. Eight and a half hours later, they swore in a new president. Everybody wants to know who this new guy is.
- Jack Ryan: Who is he?
- Rudy: Alexander Nemerov.
- Jack Ryan: You're kidding me. I wrote a paper about him a year ago.
- Mary Pat Foley: I know.
- Jack Ryan: No, Mary Pat, I said he could be next. I said he-he could be the next guy. I predicted this.
- Mary Pat Foley: I know, I know.
- Jack Ryan: And nobody read it.
- Rudy: Yeah, well, they're reading it now, buddy.
- Jack Ryan: Who?
- Mary Pat Foley: Cabot.
- Jack Ryan: I've been here 14 months. I don't think he knows what I look...
- [stopping short as they bump into Cabot]
- Jack Ryan: Sir, I write reports.
- Bill Cabot: I reviewed your military records, Jack. You can take care of yourself.
- Jack Ryan: Yes, sir, but I'm not trained for that.
- Bill Cabot: I'm not asking you to be an operations officer, just my eyes and ears. I can't go.
- Jack Ryan: So, this isn't sanctionend.
- Bill Cabot: [giving him a small plastic case] I want you to give this to Clark, see what he finds out, bring it home.
- Jack Ryan: Yes, sir.
- Bill Cabot: [Jack opens the car door] Jack. We never had this discussion.
- Jack Ryan: What discussion?
- Jack Ryan: So, uh, Intelligence Committe?
- Bill Cabot: Mm-hmm.
- Jack Ryan: I've watched these on C-SPAN. Never actually been to one.
- Bill Cabot: You've never watched one of these on C-SPAN.
- Nemerov's Translator: You must be the Dr. Ryan who has done such interesting research on me. You should not be surprised by this. We know quite a bit. For instance, we know how wrong you were in your report that I had many girlfriends in college. I met my wife in my third year and have not looked at another woman since.
- Jack Ryan: I was referring to the first two years... sir.
- [in Russian]
- Jack Ryan: Where you received highest honors in English.
- Revell: At approximately 0600 Moscow time, the Russians launched a massive artillery strike against Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. The shells contained an experimental chemical weapon known as the Novichok binary nerve agent. Saturation, you can see it on those infrared sat photos, took 20 minutes. After which, every man, woman, and child inside a radius of roughly 12 miles was rendered helpless by symptoms approximating acute, late-stage cerebral palsy.
- Secretary of State Sidney Owens: Oh, my god.
- President Robert Fowler: How many dead?
- Bill Cabot: Best guess... 80%.
- Becker: Which means Nemerov just launched the most massive attack in the history of chemical warfare.
- President Robert Fowler: Let's talk response.
- Secretary of State Sidney Owens: Worst thing we could do is nothing.
- Becker: I agree. If we let him get away with chemical weapons, what's next? Biological, nuclear?
- President Robert Fowler: Okay. Short of gassing the Kremlin, what's the strongest response we can make?
- Secretary of State Sidney Owens: We send in peacekeepers.
- Becker: Chechnya's not sovereign.
- Secretary of State Sidney Owens: Look, they requested recognition, so we recognize them. Not full diplomatic recognition; provisional. That may get the Chechens to request emergency international assistance, and we send in peacekeepers.
- President Robert Fowler: How do you get 'em in there?
- General Lasseter: The fastest way would be to fly 'em in from Turkey.
- Becker: Over Armenian airspace?
- Revell: To screw Russia, they won't complain.
- Bill Cabot: But our most important assessment comes from a highly-placed source inside the Kremlin. In his opinion, Nemerov does not owe his ascension to the military.
- Senator Jessup: Everyone has opinions, Mr. Cabot. I respect that. This morning, my wife woke up and said that I was old, bald, and ugly.
- Bill Cabot: Is that a question, Mr. Chairman?
- Senator Jessup: I told her appearances aren't everything. Would you agree Mr. Cabot?
- Bill Cabot: I certainly would, sir.
- Jack Ryan: [watching a newscast of the Russian president] He's definitely off the diet.
- Rudy: He's also off the wagon. Did you hear how he slurred
- [speaking Russian]
- Rudy: ?
- Dillon: That must be why Chelinski's hanging around, to keep him off the sauce.
- Jack Ryan: Where's Chelinski?
- Dillon: Next to... what's her name? The chick with the brown hair.
- Jack Ryan: Elena Rishkov. No, that is not Chelinski.
- Dillon: Bzzzt. Busted. It's Chelinski.
- Jack Ryan: No. You're thinking Cherpitski.
- Dillon: No, I'm not.
- Jack Ryan: It ain't Cherpitski, either.
- Dillon: I know. It's Chelinski.
- Jack Ryan: No, it's not. Believ... trust me.
- Dillon: Look! He is standing next to Elena Rishkov. He was bangin' her at the Geneva summit.
- Jack Ryan: Chelinski was not at Geneva. Cherpitski was at Geneva.
- Dillon: So, what are you sayin'? Cherpitski was bangin' Elena Rishkov?
- AFRAT Specialist Wesson: There it is. Savannah River.
- AFRAT Specialist Stubbs: Oh, yeah.
- Jack Ryan: "Oh, yeah" what?
- AFRAT Specialist Stubbs: They always had a gadolinium problem. Hanford does it another way. They always generate too much promethium.
- Jack Ryan: [on the phone] Hold on a second. Can you translate that into English for me?
- AFRAT Specialist Wesson: This plutonium came from the DOE plant at Savannah River. February of '68 from "K" reactor. You can even tell which part of "K" reactor.
- Jack Ryan: Wait a minute. This is *our* plutonium?
- AFRAT Specialist Wesson: Made in the USA.
- John Clark: [in a speedboat with Jack] So, Cabot tells me you got my ticket to the Correspondents' Dinner. Have a good time? Never been to one of those. Was actually kind of looking forward to it.
- Becker: Now, they could have launched a cruise missile. DSP sats might not have picked it up.
- Secretary of State Sidney Owens: Now, just a minute. We don't know that this is Russia.
- President Robert Fowler: But we don't know it's not.
- Revell: Look, if they were sending us a message like "stay out of Chechnya," the whole point would be for us to know it was them. Not to sneak one in.
- Becker: Except that they could inspire the kind of dithering and confusion that we're going through right now.
- Secretary of State Sidney Owens: We've come up with another alternative.
- Becker: We'll counterforce. A conventional attack on the Russian air base where the carrier attack originated.
- Secretary of State Sidney Owens: It's what we're looking for. A measured respones.
- Admiral Pollack: Non-nuclear.
- President Robert Fowler: Is it strong enough?
- Admiral Pollack: Smart bombs and F-16s. Pretty God damn strong.
- President Robert Fowler: Can't afford for them to see us as weak. They've gotta know we have the guts to... take it to the next level.
- Admiral Pollack: I think they'll get that message.
- President Robert Fowler: Hit 'em.
- Nemerov's Aide: [conversing in Russian] Mr. President... there's been a nuclear explosion in America. You must come with us now.
- President Nemerov: [getting out of bed] What?
- Nemerov's Aide: We don't know who or how. But it wasn't us.
- President Nemerov: After Grozny... you hope it wasn't us.
- Nemerov's Aide: We are drafting a strong denial for you.
- President Nemerov: And a statement of sympathy. And Yuri... order all military on the alert.
- John Clark: [after a standoff with two Ukrainian soldiers] You speak Ukrainian.
- Jack Ryan: Yeah. You don't?
- Jack Ryan: There are 17 senior on duty today, I only count 14.
- DVD Commentary: Interviewer: Who's that good in real life? Tom Clancy: Nobody.
- Bill Cabot: [at the stadium in Baltimore; answers his cell phone] Yeah, this is Cabot.
- Jack: [in a helicopter near Baltimore] The bomb is in play! Dylan's called the AFRAT team! They're meeting me at the docks in twenty minutes! We're going to see if we can find it!
- Bill Cabot: Docks? What docks?
- Jack: Baltimore!
- Bill Cabot: You're breaking up! What did you say?
- Jack: [static over cell phone] ... altimore!
- Bill Cabot: Look, I'm losing you! I'll call you back from...
- Jack: BALTIMORE!... Sir?
- Bill Cabot: [stands up and takes a long look around stadium, then shouts to the Secret Service agents] John! Reggie! Let's go! Let's go!
- [Jack's giving a quick briefing using a PDA]
- John Clark: I need to get one of those. I don't even have E-mail.