Memorable quotes for
The Siege (1998/I) More at IMDbPro »

[Elise and Samir are having sex as Frank and Hub watch through a thermal imager]
Agent Frank Haddad: Beats the shit out of cable.

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Sharon Bridger: We're the CIA, something always goes wrong.

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General William Devereaux: The CIA didn't know the Berlin Wall was coming down until bricks started hitting them in the head.

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General William Devereaux: This is the land of opportunity, gentlemen. The opportunity to turn yourselves in.

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Elise Kraft: [to Hubbard] I tend to be suspicious of all true believers. Present company included.

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Soldier: Get out of my face Hubbard, or I might just decide you're an Ethiopian!
Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: You know, you are stupid enough to think that that's an insult.

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Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: "London. Paris. Athens. Rome. Belfast. Beruit. We're not the first city to have to deal with terrorism. Tel Aviv. The day after they bombed the market in Tel Aviv the market was open and it was full. This is New York City. We can take it."

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Elise Kraft: In this game, the most committed wins.

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General William Deveroux: This is a new kind of war.

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Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: William Devereaux, you are under arrest for the torture and murder of Tariq Husseini, an American citizen.
General William Devereaux: Is this some kind of a joke?
Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: You see me laughing, general?

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Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: Are you people insane? What are you talkin' about?
General William Devereaux: The time has come for one man to suffer in order to save hundreds of lives.
Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: One Man? What about two, huh? What about six? How about public executions?
General William Devereaux: Feel free to leave whenever you like, Agent Hubbard.
Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: Come on General, you've lost men, I've lost men, but you - you, you *can't* do this! What, what if they don't even want the sheik, have you considered that? What if what they really want is for us to herd our children into stadiums like we're doing? And put soldiers on the street and have Americans looking over their shoulders? Bend the law, shred the Constitution just a little bit? Because if we torture him, General, we do that and everything we have fought, and bled, and died for is over. And they've won. They've already won!
General William Devereaux: Escort him out.

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General William Devereaux: Twelve hours after the President gives the order we can be on the ground. One light infantry division of 10,700 men, elements of the Rapid Deployment Force, Special Forces, Delta, APCs, helicopters, tanks and of course the ubiquitous M-16 A2 assault rifle. A humble enough weapon until you see it in the hands of a man outside your local bowling alley or 7-11. It will be noisy, it will be scary and it will not be mistaken for a VFW parade.

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Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: You think I want to lose them? You think I'm in the losing people business, huh?

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Elise Kraft: It's easy to tell the difference between right and wrong. What's hard is choosing the wrong that's more right.

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General William Devereaux: The Army is a broad sword, not a scalpel. Trust me, senator - you do not want the Army in an American city.

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Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: [to General Devereaux] You have the right to remain silent. You have the right to a fair trial. You have the right not to be tortured, not to be murdered, rights that you took away from Tariq Husseini. You have those rights because of the men who came before you who wore that uniform. Because of the men and women who are standing here right now waiting for you to give them the order to fire. Give them the order, General.
General William Deveroux: Do you think that I would hesitate to kill you, or every Federal Agent in this room, if I thought it was in the best interest of my country?
Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: No, no, no, you wouldn't hesitate, I know that. But they might.
[motions to soldiers in room]
Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: [pause]
Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: Give the order. Make murderers out of these young kids, give the order.
[Deveroux is silent]
Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: Give 'em the order, General!
[pause]
General William Deveroux: [Over his shoulder] Stand down, Sergeant.

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Agent Frank Haddad: Microwave!

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Sharon Bridger: Samir! The Koran preaches...
Samir Nazhde: Do not lecture me on the Qur'an, woman!

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General William Devereaux: Go fuck yourself, bureau! I am serving my country. Why don't you try serving yours?

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Agent Frank Haddad: Hub, I think we're all eager to give our weekends up on this, I know I am... but it just occurs to me, has any one committed a crime here? I mean, assault with a deadly color...?

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Sharon Bridger: I ran the network in Iraq for two years. Samir recruited them from among the Sheik's followers and I trained them in the north. The Sheik was going to help us overthrow Saddam, I mean, he was our ally. We were financing him. Then there was a policy shift. It's not like we sold them out exactly, we just stopped helping them.
[pause]
Sharon Bridger: They were slaughtered.
[pause]
Sharon Bridger: So I uh, quit the operation. I took another assignment.
Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: But you helped them first.
Sharon Bridger: What do you mean?
Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: You said they were being slaughtered, they needed to get out, they were on the terrorist watch list, so you got them visas, you and Samir.
Sharon Bridger: I promised them we would take care of them, they were working for us!
Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: Doing what, exactly?
Sharon Bridger: I told you!
Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: No you didn't. You told me that you trained them. Tradecrafts, subversion. That's what you said, wasn't it? You're leaving something out, aren't you, Sharon? You taught them how to make bombs. That's why you were looking for the wiring signatures on that blue bus. And now they're here, doing what you taught them how to do. Right?
Sharon Bridger: You've got to let me... make this right! Please?

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General William Devereaux: Good morning. Today with the invocation of the War Powers Act by the President, I am declaring state of Martial Law in this city. To the best of our knowledge we are opposed by no more than 20 of the enemy. He is hiding among a population of roughly two million. Intelligence tells us that he is most likely Arab speaking, between the age of 14 and 30, narrowing the target to 15000 suspects. We can further reduce that number down to those that have been in this country less than six months. Now you have 20 hiding among 2000. If you are one of these 20 young men, you can hide among a population of similar ethnic background. Unfortunately for you, you can only hide there. And that population, in the classic immigration pattern, is concentrated right here in Brooklyn.We intend to seal off this borough, then we intend to squeeze it. This is the land of opportunity, gentlemen. The opportunity to turn yourselves in. After sundown tonight, any young man fitting the profile I described who is not cooperating will be arrested and detained. There is historically nothing more corrosive to the morale of a population than policing its own citizens, but the enemy would be sadly mistaken if they were to doubt our resolve. They are now face-to-face with the most fearsome military machine in the history of man, and I intend to use it and be back on base in time for the playoffs. Thank you for your time.

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Senator: You don't fight a junkyard dog with ASPCA rules. What you do is you take the leash off your bigger, meaner dog.

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General William Devereaux: Make no mistake, Senator. We will hunt down the enemy, we will find the enemy, and we will kill the enemy. And no card-carrying member of the ACLU is more dead set against it than I am. Which is why I urge you - I implore you. Do not consider this as an option.

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General William Devereaux: Are you questioning my patriotism?
Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: I am questioning your judgment!
General William Devereaux: [after a pause] I am here serving my president, and quite possibly not in the best interests of our nation. My profession does not allow me to make that kind of distinction.

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Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: All right, I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to take your boy Samir downtown, I'm going to strap his ass to a polygraph machine and I'm going to ask him questions about you. Then I'm going to take those transcripts, I'm going to take them to a friend of mine at the New York Times who just loves to write stories about the link between the CIA and political horror shows.
Sharon Bridger: If you burn him, you'll lose any chance you've got.
Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: So what? It's lose-lose, isn't that what you said?
Sharon Bridger: I'm not fucking with you.
Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: How could you possibly remember who you're fucking?

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