Head Office Quotes

Pete Helmes: I'm an optimist, Colonel. I look down there and see if there's anything else for me to buy.

Movie: Head Office
Pete Helmes: Okay now, what do you say Jack?
Jack Issel: I say that you two guys, are two of the biggest assholes I've ever met.
Scott Dantley: You're way out of line, Mister Issel!
Pete Helmes: Jack, for heaven's sake, this is an important foreign policy issue at stake here!
Jack Issel: Don't give me this foreign policy stuff. I call it contemptible horse ****! You just want to buy yourselves a country like as if it was a stolen TV set. Then, you launder hot goods and dirty dealings through something you call foreign policy. My God, America's a democracy. We're not some international fried chicken chain!

Movie: Head Office
[at a bar]
Jack Issel: Max, I came as soon as you called. What happened?
Max Landsberger: [refering to Rabinovich] They fired him this morning.
Mark Rabinovich: [drunk] I'll kill myself! My whole life, my career, my future was at INC. I know, I'll shoot my brains out. Make it easier. No problem for anybody just... bang!
Max Landsberger: Apparently, a letter with his card enclosed was dropped off yesterday afternoon at the office of a major Saudi oil company that we do a lot of business with. It said that INC wouldn't boycott the Israelis and that the Saudis could go screw themselves.
Jack Issel: What?
Max Landsberger: Well, the shiek freaked out and Dantley had to kiss a whole lot of Saudi ass to cool him off and they insisted that Rabinovich be fired.
Jack Issel: Who the hell would have put Rabinovich's card in a nasty letter like...
Max Landsberger: That's no longer an issue Jack. Don't get involved with something that doesn't concern you if you want to survive here at INC.

Movie: Head Office