Bryan Woodman
Do you understand what that means, it's like someone put a giant ATM on our front lawn.
Here's a question. How do you think it looks to profit off the death of your six year old?
Bryan Woodman
**** you.
Are you a king? Can you tell me what you want?
In this town, you're innocent until you're investigated.
Bob Barnes
Innocent until investigated? That's nice. It's got a nice ring to it. Bet you've worn some miles on old sayings like that. Gives the listener the sense of the law being written as it's spoken.
Dig six feet, find three bodies. But dig twelve feet, you find forty.
Arabs are very family-oriented. As a people. Is that racist?
Bryan Woodman
Sure! A little.
I want pig bacon!
Bob, what do you know about the torture methods used by the Chinese on the Falun Gong? Huh? Method number one. What's your guess? [pause] Water dungeon. Did you guess water dungeon? Number two method? Number two, twisting arm and putting face in feces. Not interested in two. Number three. Number three is called 'pulling nails from fingers'. What do you think Bob? Number three sound good to you? The purpose is to get the monks or whatever to recant their beliefs. What if I had to get you to recant? That would be pretty difficult right? Because if you have no beliefs to recant then what? Then you're **** is what. You're going to give me the names of every person who's taken money from you. [rips off one of Bob's nails] Oh that is disgusting.
Bob Barnes
Come on Jimmy, you're not one of those Koran thumpers!
My name is Mussawi. [rips off another nail, then starts punching Bob] You **** ****, **** ****, stupid ****, what the ****, this is a war! **** you're a PO **** W! Give me the **** names! I'm cutting his **** head off. I'm going to cut your head off, Bob!
Rumors of Bob, but never Bob.
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.
Prince Nasir Al-Subaai
He's barely qualified to run a brothel, much less a country!
Prince Nasir Al-Subaai
When a country has 5 percent of the world's population but spends 50 percent of the world's military spending, that country's persuasive power is in decline.
Danny Dalton
Some trust fund prosecutor, got off-message at Yale, thinks he's gonna run this up the flagpole, make a name for himself, maybe get elected some two-bit, congressman from nowhere, with the result that Russia or China can suddenly start having, at our expense, all the advantages we enjoy here. No, I tell you. No, sir! Corruption charges! Corruption?!! Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations. That's Milton Friedman. He got a goddamn Nobel Prize. 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.
Bryan Woodman
But what do you need a financial advisor for? Twenty years ago you had the highest GNP in the world, now you're tied with Albania. So, good job. Your second largest export is secondhand goods, followed closely by dates for which you lose five cents a pound. You know what the business world thinks of you? They think a hundred years ago you were living in tents out here in the desert chopping each other's heads off and that's exactly where you'll be in another hundred years- so on behalf of my firm, yes, I accept your money.
Bryan Woodman
What are they thinking *hah*? What are they thinking? They're thinking that it's running out. It's running out, and 90% of what's left is in the Middle East. Look at the progression: Versailles, Suez, 1973, Gulf War 1, Gulf War 2. This is a fight to the death. So what are THEY thinking? Great! They're thinking keep playing, keep buying yourself new toys, keep spending $50,000 a night on your hotel room, but don't invest in your infrastructure... don't build a real economy. So that when you finally wake up, they will have sucked you dry, and you will have squandered the greatest natural resource in history.
Bryan Woodman
Beirut, it's great! It's like the Paris of the Middle East.