The Sum of All Fears 2002 quotes

Are you advocating we launch a first strike...

It is not a first strike! There's already been a first strike! And a second! Don't you get it?

No! I don't get it! I don't understand why we have to nuke them, for God's sake! It's not reasonable!

President Fowler

Sidney, goddamnit! They practically sank an aircraft carrier! Their missile silos are hot! We're getting nothing but bullshit from Nemerov! And let's not forget how this thing started, OK? They tried to kill me, remember! So don't **** tell me to be reasonable!

Cabot

What's the t-shirt say?

"I am a bomb technician, if you see me running" [laughs] try to catch up."

Bill Cabot

How's your Russian?

It still works. Why?

Cabot

Three Russian nuclear scientists are missing. I need to know where they are.

Cabot

Jack...Jack what are you doing?

Jack

Oh... I had a date tonight so I have to call and cancel.

Cabot

Well don't be stupid! Tell her where you're going. In fact tell her who you work for. She'll be impressed.

Jack

OK. I work for the CIA, and the Director asked me at the last minute to come with him to Russia with him to do a nuclear arms inspection. Hello?

That is so lame.

Jack

No, I swear, it's because of the START treaty, we get to inspect to make sure they're really decommissioning their nuclear arsenal [Cathy hangs up] Hello?...Hello? [sees Cabot laughing at him] Thanks a lot.

In 1973, Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack against Israel. By Day Two, Israeli ground forces appeared on the verge of defeat. In the event that their ground forces were overrun, an Israeli A-4 jet took off on patrol with one nuclear bomb.

I ordered no such attack. You must not respond to this action until we have investigated all possibilities.

Like you did in Chechnya? Mr. President, who is in control of your armed forces?

You dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. You dropped the bomb on Nagasaki. Do not lecture me on Chechnya!

President Robert Fowler

My beautiful wife, Julie, is from New Jersey. 15 electoral votes... and is, as you know, half Jewish. So we'll take Florida's 25 electoral votes and divide by two. My daughter, Jeanie, is expecting her first child. If it's a girl, she will be named Virginia. 13 electoral votes. In fact, even if it's a boy, he'll be named Virginia. She reminds me that I have publicly acknowledged that as a young Marine officer in Vietnam, I did, on a handful of occasions, smoke marijuana. [pause] California, 54 electoral votes! [guests laugh and make standing ovation]

Jack Ryan

Sir, I know you. I know you had nothing to do with the Baltimore bomb, and you sure as hell know you didn't! But you're still about to launch a nuclear strike against us! This no longer has anything to do with Baltimore! Now it's about fear! Our fear of your missiles, your fear of our subs, fear of being weak, fear of making a mistake... the same fear of the other guy that had us build these goddamn bombs in the first place!

Jack Ryan

General, the president is basing his decisions on some really bad information right now. And if you shut me out, your family, and my family, and 25 million other families will be dead in 30 minutes!!!

Richard Dressler

Most people believe that the 20th century was a death struggle between Communism and Capitalism, and that Fascism was but a hiccup. But today we know better. Communism was a fool's errand. The followers of Marx gone from this earth, but the followers of Hitler abound and thrive. Hitler, however, had one great disadvantage. He lived in a time when Fascism, like a virus... like the AIDS virus... needed a strong host in order to spread. Germany was that host. But Germany did not prevail. The world was too big. Fortunately, the world has changed. Global communications, cable TV, the internet. Today the world is smaller and a virus does not need a strong host in order to spread. The virus... is airborne. One more thing. Let no man call us crazy. They called Hitler crazy. But Hitler was not crazy. He was stupid. You don't fight Russia and America. You get Russia and America to fight each other... and destroy each other.

Jack Ryan

The bomb is in play! Dylan's called the AFRAT team! They're meeting me at the docks in twenty minutes! We're going to see if we can find it!