Enemy of the State Quotes

Robert Clayton Dean I was shopping for some lingerie. That's still legal, isn't it?

David Pratt Were you buying that for your wife?

Dean No, I was picking something up for myself, I do a little cross dressing on the weekends. You know, you'd be surprised how a nice pair of edible panties can make a guy feel sexy.

Congressman Sam Albert We knew that we had to monitor our enemies. We've also come to realize that we need to monitor the people who are monitoring them...

Carla Dean Well who's gonna monitor the monitors of the monitors?

Robert Clayton Dean I wouldn't mind doing a little... "monitoring" myself.

Carla Yes, and you've got lots and lots of... "monitoring" to do.

Eric Dean Are you guys talking about sex?

Robert Boy!

Eric Oh no, it's time for dinner.

Robert Get in there and eat your dinner, no more hanging with Dylan.

Edward "Brill" Lyle You have something they want!

Dean I don't have anything!

Lyle Maybe you do and you don't know it! You stay away from Rachel and you stay away from me, you come near either one of us, I'm gonna kill you. Get rid of your watch.

Dean My wife gave me this for our anniversary.

Lyle Then keep it. Stay off the phone!

Edward "Brill" Lyle Is this about me? Do they know me?

Robert Clayton Dean Who's them?

Lyle Do they know me??

Dean I don't know what you're talking about!

Lyle You're either very smart or incredibly stupid.

Robert Clayton Dean Actually, I believe the slur "shyster" is generally reserved for Jewish attorneys. I believe the proper slur for someone like myself would be "eggplant".

Robert Clayton Dean You're the only woman for me. You and ].

Taglines In God we trust. The rest we monitor.

Taglines It's not paranoia if they're really after you.

Edward "Brill" Lyle You're the threat now. Just like I was.

Robert Clayton Dean Threat to whom? To them?

Lyle No. To your family, your friends, everybody you know, everybody you meet. That's why I went away and didn't come back. You've got to go away, Robert.

Dean No, I don't think so. This is my life, I worked hard for it and I want it back. I grew up without a father, I know what that is. And I will not allow my family to go through that.

Kid at Nearby Table Mommy, I want to go home.

Lyle Want to take a poke at me? Come on.

Dean I don't hit senior citizens.

Lyle Come here, Babe. Come here, come on. In ] they taught us to use our weaknesses as strengths.

Dean Such as?

Lyle Well, if they're big and you're small, then you're mobile and they're slow. You're hidden and they're exposed. You only fight battles you know you can win. That's the way the Vietcong did it. You capture their weapons and you use them against them the next time. That way they're supplying you. You grow stronger as they grow weaker.

Taglines The only privacy left is inside of your head.

Thomas Brian Reynolds What will it take for us to walk out of here with that video tape?

Boss Paulie Pintero The end of the world.

Robert Clayton Dean What the hell just happened?

Edward "Brill" Lyle I blew up the building.

Dean Why?

Lyle Because you made a phone call!

Edward "Brill" Lyle The government's been in bed with the entire telecommunications industry since the forties. They've infected everything. They get into your bank statements, computer files, email, listen to your phone calls...

Robert Clayton Dean My wife's been saying that for years.

Lyle Every wire, every airwave. The more technology used, the easier it is for them to keep tabs on you. It's a brave new world out there. At least it'd better be. There it goes. It's some kind of simple encryption.

Dean Oh, conspiracy theorists of the world, unite.

Lyle It's more than a theory with me. I'm a former conspirer. I used to work for the NSA. I was a communication analyst. Listen to international calls, calls from foreign nationalists. That GPS tracking device we found in your cellular telephone? I designed one of the first models in that series. ] has 18 acres of mainframe computers underground. You're talking on the phone and you use the word, "bomb," "president," "Allah," any of a hundred keywords, the computer recognizes it, automatically records it, red flags it for analysis; that was twenty years ago. You know the Hubble Telescope that looks up to the stars? They've got over a hundred spy satellites looking down at us. That's classified. In the old days, we actually had to tap a wire into your phone line. Now calls bouncin around on satellite, they snatch right out of the air.

Thomas Reynolds You won the war. Now we're fighting the peace. It's a lot more volatile. Now we've got ten million crackpots out there with sniper scopes, sarin gas and C-4. Ten-year-olds go on the Net, downloading encryption we can barely break, not to mention instructions on how to make a low-yield nuclear device. Privacy's been dead for 30 years because we can't risk it. The only privacy that's left is the inside of your head. Maybe that's enough. You think we're the enemy of democracy, you and I? I think we're democracy's last hope. There's always going to be power.