Seven Days in May (1964)
Kirk Douglas: Col. Martin 'Jiggs' Casey
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Quotes
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Senator Frederick Prentice : You make me think that fruit salad on your chest is for neutrality, evasiveness, and fence-straddling.
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : On the contrary, Senator, they're standard awards for cocktail courage and dinner-table heroism. I thought you'd invented them.
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President Jordan Lyman : All right, Colonel. Let's sum it up, shall we? You're suggesting what?
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : I'm not sure, Mr. President: just some possibilities, what we call, uh "capabilities" in military intelligence...
President Jordan Lyman : You got something against the English language, Colonel?
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : No, sir.
President Jordan Lyman : Then speak it plainly, if you will.
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : I'm suggesting, Mr. President, there's a military plot to take over the government. This may occur some time this coming Sunday.
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Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : Yes, I know who Judas was. He was a man I worked for and admired until he disgraced the four stars on his uniform.
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President Jordan Lyman : I know what Scott's attitude on the treaty is, what's yours?
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : I agree with General Scott, sir. I think we're being played for suckers. I think it's really your business. Yours and the Senate. You did it, and they agreed so, well, I don't see how we in the military can question it. I mean we can question it, but we can't fight it. We shouldn't, anyway.
President Jordan Lyman : Jiggs, isn't it? Isn't that what they call you?
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : Yes sir.
President Jordan Lyman : So you, ah, you stand by the Constitution, Jiggs?
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : I never thought of it just like that, Mr. President, but, well, that's what we got and I guess it's worked pretty well so far. I sure don't want to be the one to say we ought to change it.
President Jordan Lyman : Neither do I.
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Christopher Todd : This stuff you unearthed, Colonel Casey, is dynamite. Very revealing of General Scott's extracurricular love life. Any taste of victory we have in our mouths, Colonel, is due in no small measure to your efforts.
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : The taste I've got in my mouth, Mr. Secretary, is unmentionable.
Christopher Todd : I can understand that feeling, Colonel. But when you deal with a jackal like your general...
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : Mr. Todd, this is a full Air Force general. Six times wounded, wearing only half the medals he deserves. Whatever else he is, he's no jackal.
Christopher Todd : My god, the sensitivity of our warriors! Did I step on your old school tie, Colonel?
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : You're just like a lot of civilians, Mr. Todd. After every armistice, you want to put us away in mothballs, like the fleet. When it comes to a little dying...
Christopher Todd : Hold up, Colonel!
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : ...you'll be sure to put us in a uniform...
Christopher Todd : That's enough, Colonel!
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President Jordan Lyman : You ever been up here before?
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : It's a big room.
President Jordan Lyman : [Sarcastically] Too big for living and too small for a convention.
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Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : How long will you be in town?
Colonel William "Mutt" Henderson : Just till the old man briefs Scott. I think you know him. Colonel Broderick?
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : Broderick.
Colonel William "Mutt" Henderson : Good officer, don't you think?
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : Yeah, for certain armies. The kind that goose step.
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Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : What is it? Is it just Scott?
Eleanor Holbrook : It's Scott. It's that and everything. It's my whole damned life.
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : You're not the first dame to ever wind up on the bottom of the deck. It happens every day. What matters is how a person lives with it.
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Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : Stop playing the part of the anguished drunk, digging olives out of martinis and boring everybody with tragic stories. You know, sober, Ellie, you're a bright, beautiful dame. Good to have around.
Eleanor Holbrook : Will you drive me home, Jiggs?
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General James Mattoon Scott : This country's in trouble, Jiggs, deep trouble. Now, there are two ways we can handle this. Sit here on our duffs and ask for divine guidance and hope for it. Or we can - Or we can what, Jiggs? What would your advice be?
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : Well sir, we're a nation of laws, of rules. We're military men so we've taken an oath to uphold the Constitution.
General James Mattoon Scott : The democratic way.
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : Yes, sir. The democratic way.
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Eleanor Holbrook : Don't tell me after all this time you're making a pass, Jiggs.
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : The window's open. You could always scream.
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Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : ECOMCON and horse racing. What the hell's going on here?
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Eleanor Holbrook : Here, here.
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : Ellie. I didn't know you were back in town.
Eleanor Holbrook : You never looked.
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Eleanor Holbrook : You surprised me tonight, Colonel Casey. The voice of reason coming out of a military man?
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : I've got a lot of hidden talents.
Eleanor Holbrook : Oh, I suspected that right along. Ever since my ex-lover introduced us. And how is the staunch General Scott? And his lovely wife?
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : He keeps busy.
Eleanor Holbrook : So I read. There's a sizeable portion of the citizenry who says that he's the savior of the western world.
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : He does his job, Ellie.
Eleanor Holbrook : Well, take care of him, Jiggs. See that he rests on the seventh day.
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Eleanor Holbrook : You're a great crutch. It's too bad you're only available 20 minutes at a time.
Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : You can't tell. Sometimes the country can spare me for a whole evening. Give me a rain check and I'll prove it.
Eleanor Holbrook : Tuck it somewhere safe where you won't forget it.
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Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey : I've been reamed by experts, Senator.
