[to the Soviet Ambassador]
It would be well for your government to consider that having your ships and ours, your aircraft and ours, in such proximity... is inherently DANGEROUS. Wars have begun that way, Mr. Ambassador.
Capt. Marko Ramius
Sean Connery · 20 quotes
Jack Ryan
Alec Baldwin · 19 quotes
Capt. Bart Mancuso
Scott Glenn · 8 quotes
Dr. Jeffrey Pelt
Richard Jordan · 7 quotes
Admiral James Greer
James Earl Jones · 4 quotes
Admiral Josh Painter
4 quotes
Captain Davenport
Daniel Davis · 3 quotes
Seaman Jones
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Most scenes together: Capt. Marko Ramius & Jack Ryan (6), Capt. Marko Ramius & Capt. Bart Mancuso (2), Jack Ryan & Capt. Bart Mancuso (2)
The Hunt for Red October quotes
Page 4 of 4Anatoli, you're afraid of our fleet. Well, you should be. Personally, I'd give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?
Central Intelligence Agency... Now, there's a contradiction in terms.
Give me a ping, Vasily. One ping only, please.
I miss the peace of fishing like when I was a boy. Forty years I've been at sea. A war at sea. A war with no battles, no monuments... only casualties. I widowed her the day I married her. My wife died while I was at sea, you know.
I'm not an agent, I just write books for the CIA.
It reminds me of the heady days of Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin when the world trembled at the sound of our rockets. Now they will tremble again - at the sound of our silence. The order is: engage the silent drive.
My Morse is so rusty, I could be sending him dimensions on playmate of the month.
Once more, we play our dangerous game, a game of chess against our old adversary - The American Navy. For forty years, your fathers before you and your older brothers played this game and played it well. But today the game is different. We have the advantage.
The hard part about playing chicken is knowin' when to flinch.
We will pass through the American patrols, past their sonar nets, and lay off their largest city, and listen to their rock and roll... while we conduct missile drills.
Well, Sir, I was just thinking that perhaps there's another possibility we might consider. Raimus might be trying to defect.
When he reached the New World, Cortez burned his ships. As a result, his men were well motivated.