“The Siege” quotes
(1998)
Edward Zwick
directed this movie
in 1998
Title The Siege
Year 1998
Director Edward Zwick
Genre Drama, Crime, Thriller, Action
Year 1998
Director Edward Zwick
Genre Drama, Crime, Thriller, Action
Plot – A FBI Special Agent, a CIA agent and a US Army General take the same oath to support and defend the Constitution. When a bus explodes in Brooklyn and terror spreads in the streets of New York, for them it's time to deal with its implications. Anthony Hub Hubbard, head of the Anti-Terrorism Task Force, is the man in charge to protect the city from a variety of threats, together with FBI and the NY Police Department. Elise Kraft is a CIA agent, now infiltrated in the Arab-American community. Her agenda is far more complex than Hub's. The two are forced to work together in an uneasy alliance, while acts of terrorism threaten the city.
All actors – Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Bruce Willis, Tony Shalhoub, Sami Bouajila, Ahmed Ben Larby, Mosleh Mohamed, Lianna Pai, Mark Valley, Jack Gwaltney, David Proval, Lance Reddick, Jeremy Knaster, William Hill, Aasif Mandvi, Frank DiElsi, Wood Harris, Ellen Bethea, David Costabile, Glenn Kessler, Jeffrey Waid, Tom McDermott, Sherry Ham-Bernard, Joseph Hodge, Joey Naber, Said Faraj, Ali Afshar, Jacqueline Antaramian, Helmi Kassim, Ghoulam R. Rasoully, Joseph Badalucco Jr., Diana Naftal, Ben Shenkman, Barton Tinapp, Neal Jones, Donna Hanover, Peter Schindler, Hany Kamal, Chip Zien, Dakin Matthews, John Rothman, John Henry Cox, E. Katherine Kerr, Jimmie Ray Weeks, Will Lyman, Ray Godshall, Victor Slezak, Chris Messina, Gilbert Rosales, Amro Salama, Jim Shankman, Matt Servitto, Jourdan Fremin, Anjua Warfield-Maximo, Susie Essman, Rory J. Aylward, Jeff Beatty, Graham Larson, Arianna Huffington, Robert Scheer, Matt Miller, John F. Beard, Stan Brooks, Alex Chadwick, Epi Colon, Judy de Angelis, Luis Jimenez, Sean Hannity, Ronald Kuby, Daniel Schorr, Curtis Sliwa, Susan Stamberg, Mary Alice Williams, Mike Akrawi, Anthony Batarse, Buzz Cartier, Scott Charles, Bill Clinton, Sean Patrick Doherty, Sean Patrick Folster, Mark A. Langston, Andrew Lasky, Marshall Dancing Elk Lucas, Dave Mallow, Tim Maloney, Lisa Masters, Trish McGettrick, Ali Merhi, George F. Miller, Luis Moro, Garry Pastore, Robin Anne Phipps, Andy Redmond, Rocco, Michael Rothberger, Patrick Russo, Tony Snow
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“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.”
“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. They were slaughtered.”
“It's easy to tell the difference between right and wrong. What's hard is choosing the wrong that's more right.”
“- Agent Frank Haddad: 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...?
- Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: Here's what I don't like: they know explosives. They know our response time. They put in a call and walk.”“- Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: His father's a federal agent for ten years.
- Colonel Hardwick, Army Intelligence: Don't get in my face, Hubbard. I might decide you're an Ethiopian.
- Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: And you're just stupid enough to think that's an insult.”“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...” (continue)(continue reading)
“We're the CIA, something always goes wrong.”
“- 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?”“- Agent Frank Haddad: You are an associate of Ali Waziri.
- Samir Nazhde: Who? I know no one by that name.
- Agent Frank Haddad: You got him a student visa.
- Samir Nazhde: I sign these applications as a matter of course, hundreds of them. Everyone wants to come to the land of opportunity and Baywatch.”“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 15,000 suspects.”
“The CIA didn't know the Berlin Wall was coming down until bricks started hitting them in the head.”
“It's never the question that's indiscreet, just the answer.”
“- Agent Frank Haddad: You spent two years in Israeli jails during the Intifada.
- Samir Nazhde: The only ones who didn't were women like you.”“I tend to be suspicious of all true believers. Present company included.”
“- General William Devereaux: Are you questioning my patriotism?
- Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: I am questioning your judgment!
- General William Devereaux: 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.”“- 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?”“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“- General William Devereaux: 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. Give the order. Make murderers out of these young kids, give the order.”“In this game, the most committed wins.”
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