Broken Arrow Quotes

Secretary Baird The U.S. Air Force regrets to announce that a C-141 cargo plane went down over the Utah desert... the status of the crew have yet to be determined, yaddah yaddah yaddah..." Well, that's very nice bullshit, Rick.

Giles Prentice Wait. We're making a mistake.

Secretary Baird Giles? You have something you wish to share with us?

Prentice Yes. ] has been following the development of the B3 for years. They have "stringers" - guys camping out in lawn chairs all night by the Whiteman perimeter fence- watching just in case one of these things take off. They're gonna know that one took off last night, and they're gonna know that it didn't come back. Now, we put out a press-release saying a C141 went down in Utah, they're going to put two and two together, Aviation Week is going to run a story, everyone's gonna know what really happened, and we're all going to look extremely... stupid. We're better off just telling the truth.

Baird The truth? How'd you get this job? Write it down, like Giles said.

Baird Guys in lawn chairs"... I don't know, Giles. Sometimes you scare me.

Prentice Hell, sir. Sometimes I scare myself.

Riley Hale My name's Riley Hale.

Terry Carmichael Terry Carmichael. You know you're still under arrest, Captain.

Hale Well, looks like you're gonna have to take me in.

Kelly Shut that son of a bitch down. Now! I didn't sign up for this. I'm not ready to die, not for you.

Vic Deakins Everybody dies, Kelly. I'm as good a reason as any.

Pritchett It's still my money.

Vic Deakins And if we succeed, you and your associates will get a ton of it.

Pritchett If we're successful?

Deakins Look, Mr. Pritchett, I will deliver the weapons to the destination. But I can't depend and I can't guarantee that those assholes in Washington won't do something stupid like... not pay.

Pritchett What if they don't?

Deakins Well, if they don't, the Southwest will be a quiet neighborhood for... about ten thousand years.

Riley Hale So that's what this is all about, huh? The money?

Vic Deakins Yeah.

Hale Bullshit.

Deakins Well, you tell me why. Go ahead. You tell me why.

Hale Because you've been passed over for promotion so many times, you want to show the bastards you're right. Maybe it's cause everybody's cashing out so why the hell not you? I don't know. Maybe-maybe your mother dropped you on your head when you were a baby. I mean, who the hell cares, Deak? I mean, there's no difference between you and a guy who shoots up a schoolyard. You've both got a head full of bad wiring.

Deakins What was that?

Hale You're fucked in the head, Deak!

Deakins HA!

Hale I pissed him off.

Major Vic Deakins I do appreciate the money that you and your associates have invested in this operation, but it is an operation. It's a military operation. And you don't know dick about that. I've been in the military for 20 years. I planned and flew over 100 missions in the Gulf. I put these boys together because they are highly trained, and they are motivated like me. This is what I do, Mr. Pritchett! And this is battle. Battle is a highly fluid situation. You plan on your contingencies, and I have. You keep your initiative, and I will. One thing you don't do is share command. It's never a good idea.

Vic Deakins Hale. Pick up. Pick UP! C'mon buddy - pick up the phone.

Riley Hale Buddy," huh? Son of a bitch, you tried to kill me. The friendship is over.

Deakins Well, that doesn't mean I don't like you. Hell - I'm impressed. I'd have figured you'd have picked up and walked off by now.

Hale Yeah? Well, you figured wrong. Now I've got the nukes. Guess what, Deak? I'm gonna deactivate em. You hear that? That's me punching in the wrong codes. Pretty soon these things are gonna be absolutely useless. Might as well turn around and drive away.

Deakins Outstanding, Hale! That's the spirit! Damn, I'm totally screwed now. Unless of course I already thought of that ahead of time. Didn't work, did it? I used uncoded circuit boards. You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend. Setting off a nuke in this mine has been part of my plan from day one. Otherwise some D.C. civilian might say, I haven't got the guts.

Hale Fuck!

Terry Carmichael He's insane.

Deakins You know, Hale, I considered bringing you in on this. You know why I didn't?

Hale Because I would have said "no"?

Deakins Nah, if you'd said "no" I'd have just killed you; I was afraid that you were going to say "yes"! Cause you don't have the balls to follow through with something like this, we both know that.

Riley Hale You're out of your mind.

Vic Deakins Yeah. Ain't it cool?

Hale I'm serious, Deak, your mind has taken a walk off the map.

Deakins Maybe. But I'm still gonna kick your ass.

Riley Hale I don't think that Aurora Project is gonna happen for me. I spoke to your buddy Taylor; he doesn't feel like I have enough fighter time to qualify.

Vic Deakins And what did you say to him?

Hale Thank you very much, sir, goodbye.

Deakins You'll never change, will you? And that, my friend, will be your downfall.

Hale You know what your problem is?

Deakins Yeah. I'm always right.

Hale You think you're always right.

Deakins That's deep.

Hale You said so yourself- you should have made colonel by now, but you're too busy pushing at everybody all the time.

Deakins Well. That's an awesome responsibility, isn't it?