The Take Quotes

Deputy Mayor Warren LaSalle: All right, Al. You've heard from the Three Wise Men. Now what do you say?
Mayor: What are THEY going to say, Warren?
Deputy Mayor Warren LaSalle: They who?
Mayor: Who? Everybody - the press, the man on the street.
Mayor's wife: He means the voters.
Deputy Mayor Warren LaSalle: You know what they're going to say. The Times is going to support you. The News is going to knock you. The Post will take both sides at the same time. The rich will support you, likewise the blacks, and the Puerto Ricans won't give a ****. So come on, Al, quit stalling!
Mayor: Will you stop bullying everybody, Warren? This is supposed to be a democracy!
Deputy Mayor Warren LaSalle: Wise up, for chrissake, we're trying to run a city, not a goddamn democracy! Al, quit farting around - we've got to pay!
Mayor: Jessie, Jessie, what do you say?
Mayor's wife: I know a million dollars sounds like a lot of money. But just think what you'll get in return.
Mayor: What?
Mayor's wife: Eighteen sure votes.
Mayor: All right, all right. Warren, Warren, arrange for the payoff!
Deputy Mayor Warren LaSalle: Hallelujah.

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Jeremy: Hey we only lost Vietnam because of Hippie's and draft dodgers, and you wouldn't see that crap today.
Karl Thomasson: So, uh, what's your name?
Jeremy: Jeremy.
Karl Thomasson: So you're saying domestic unrest undermine the military abroad. Is that right?
Jeremy: Yeah.
Karl Thomasson: And where'd you learn this? From one of you political science professors?
Jeremy: Rambo.

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Pierre Dulaine: I want to teach your kids to dance.
Principal Augustine James: If theres' one thing they can do, it's dance.
Pierre Dulaine: Ballroom dance? Waltz, the foxtrot?
Principal Augustine James: Ok, where's the camera? Because if you're saying that you want to teach my kids the foxtrot I have to be on TV.

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Purser Uli Derickson: [to a pregnant woman and her husband] Oh! Looks like three are traveling for the price of two here!

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Sean Briar: You ran. Innocent people don't run.
Michael Mason: Have you seen yourself? You'd run, too.

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[last lines] Michael Mason: So where do I go from here? I didn't even get the money. Are the CIA gonna reimburse me?
Sean Briar: Guess you gotta get a job.
Michael Mason: A job? The CIA for anything going?
Sean Briar: Yeah, you can clean the cars.
Michael Mason: Cleaning like swept for bombs?
Sean Briar: No, buddy. Soap and water.
Michael Mason: What about something in surveillance?
Sean Briar: I don't think so.
Michael Mason: The mailroom?
Sean Briar: No.
Michael Mason: Come on, man! I got skills.
Sean Briar: You know, I should've shot you in the face.

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Michael Mason: This is crazy, I don't work for the CIA.
Sean Briar: Well you do today.

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Michael Mason: I can't believe that cop fucking shot at me!
Sean Briar: You're a terrorist suspect who killed four people. What did you expect?

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Karen Dacre: You owe me. [is suddenly assassinated]

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Karen Dacre: How's the wife?
Victor Gamieux: Expensive.

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