Few Good Men, A quotes

86 total quotes

Capt. Jack Ross
Col. Nathan R. Jessep
Lt. Cdr. JoAnne Galloway

Lt. Col. Matthew Markinson
Lt. Daniel Kaffee
Lt. Sam Weinberg

View Quote Is the Colonel's underwear a matter of national security?

View Quote Look at this! Last night he's swimming in Jack Daniels, and now he can leap tall buildings in a single bound.

View Quote Why does a Lieutenant junior grade with a track record for plea bargains get handed a murder case? Could it be so it never sees the inside of a courtroom?

View Quote I run my unit how I run my unit. You want to investigate me, roll the dice and take your chances. I eat breakfast three hundred yards away from four thousand Cubans who are trained to kill me. So don't think for one second that you can come down here, flash a badge, and make me nervous.

View Quote Kaffee: Joanne, you're coming dangerously close to the textbook definition of interfering with a government investigation.
Galloway: I'm Louden Downey's attorney. Aunt Ginny; she said she feels like she's known me for years, so I suggested that she might feel more comfortable if I was directly involved with the case. She had Louden sign the papers about an hour ago.
Kaffee: I suppose it's way too much to hope that you're making this up just to bother me.

View Quote Walk softly and carry an armored tank division, I always say.

View Quote He's arguing. He's making an argument.

View Quote [Rehearsing her request to represent the Marines] I'd like to request that it be I am who assigned . . . that it be I who am assigned? That's great. That's confidence-inspiring. Good grammar there.

View Quote Kaffee: Hi, I'm Daniel Kaffee. I was told to meet with, ah, Lieutenant Commander Galloway about a briefing?
Galloway: You're the attorney Division assigned?
Kaffee: I'm lead counsel. This is Sam Weinberg.
Weinberg: I have no responsibilities here whatsoever.

View Quote And the hits just keep on comin'.

View Quote Whatever happened to saluting an officer when he leaves the room? [Dawson stands up and shoves his hands in his pockets]

View Quote [Imitating Jessep] He eats breakfast three hundred yards away from four thousand Cubans who are trained to kill him [in his own voice] and no one's going to tell him how to run his unit, least of all the Harvard mouth in his ****y white uniform.

View Quote Kaffee: It's not going to win you a place in my heart, I get paid no matter how long you stay in jail.
Dawson: [contemptuously] Yes sir, I know you do, sir.
Kaffee: **** you, Harold!

View Quote Kaffee: [just seconds before the trial starts] Last chance. I'll flip you for it.
Bailiff: All rise.
Ross: Too late.

View Quote In short, Captain, I'd like to suggest that I be the one who that... that it be me who is assigned to represent them... myself.