“Syriana” quotes

“- Bob Barnes: Intelligence work isn't training seminars and gold stars for attendance.
- Fred Franks: What do you think intelligence work is Bob?
- Bob Barnes: I think it's two people in a room and one of them's asking a favor that is a capital crime in every country on earth, a hanging crime.
- Fred Franks: No Bob, it's assessing the...” (continue)(continue reading)
George Clooney - Bob Barnes
Tom McCarthy - Fred Franks

“You know what the business community thinks of you? They think that a hundred years ago you were living in tents out here in the desert chopping each other's heads off and that's where you'll be in another hundred years.”

Matt Damon - Bryan Woodman

“I hear phrases thrown around like the corrupting influence of money, or the evil influence of dollars in politics, when more money is spent on the syndication rights to the Seinfeld television program, than on the whole of the last presidential election.”

Tim Blake Nelson - Danny Dalton

“Capitalism cannot exist without waste.”
Sonnell Dadral - Farooq

“When a country has five percent of the world's population but does fifty percent of its military spending, then the persuasive powers of that country are on the decline.”
Alexander Siddig - Prince Nasir Al-Subaai

“- Prince Nasir Al-Subaai: What are they thinking, my brother and these American lawyers?
- Bryan Woodman: What are they thinking? They're thinking that it's running out. It's running out... and ninety percent of what's left is in the Middle East. This is a fight to the death.”

Alexander Siddig - Prince Nasir Al-Subaai
Matt Damon - Bryan Woodman

“Both of my parents are professional liars.”
Max Minghella - Robby Barnes

“We have laws against it precisely so we can get away with it. Corruption is our protection. Corruption keeps us safe and warm. Corruption is why you and I are prancing around in here instead of fighting over scraps of meat out in the streets. Corruption is why we win.”
Tim Blake Nelson - Danny Dalton

“If anything happens to me or my family, an accident, an accusation, anything, then first your son will disappear, his body will never be found. Then your wife. Her body will never be found either. This is guaranteed. Then, whatever is the most dangerous thing you do in your life, it might be flying in a small plane, it might be walking to the...” (continue)(continue reading)
George Clooney - Bob Barnes

“The Chinese are smart people, but such bad drivers. They should not be allowed to even wash cars.”
Kayvan Novak - Arash

“He's barely qualified to run a brothel much less a country.”

Alexander Siddig - Prince Nasir Al-Subaai