Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Quotes

  • Viktor Cherevin: You Americans like to think of yourselves as direct, but I wonder if perhaps you are just rude.

    Jack Ryan: You Russians think of yourselves as poets but perhaps you're just touchy.

  • Jack Ryan: [to Harper, while arguing with Cathy] Can we have a... a-a-a minute, please ?

    William Harper: No, you can't.

    Cathy Muller: I would like to talk to Jack alone.

    William Harper: This is geopolitics. It's not couples therapy.

  • Jack Ryan: You didn't pick this life. I did.

    Cathy Muller: But I picked you.

  • [first lines]

    Jack Ryan: Hey, what's going on?

    Student: In there. It's on the news.

  • [last lines]

    President: And what's your name, son?

    Jack Ryan: Ryan, Mr. President. Jack Ryan.

  • Viktor Cherevin: [In Russian] It was always for Russia.

    The Minister Sorokin: So is this.

    [He shoots Viktor]

  • William Harper: [to Jack] You're not just an analyst anymore. You're operational now.

  • Viktor Cherevin: Regret. It piles up around us like books we never read.

  • CIA Operator: Remember your tradecraft and you'll be fine.

  • Viktor Cherevin: [speaking of Afghanistan] Different time, different empire, same graveyard.

  • Jack Ryan: [collapsing on his crutches] I don't like you very much, doctor.

    Cathy Muller: I'm not a doctor. I'm a 3rd-year med student who is four credits short in P.T. until you decide to walk.

  • Jack Ryan: Jesus, you weren't kidding. You *are* in the CIA.

    William Harper: Somebody has to be.

  • Viktor Cherevin: Partnerships are delicate, Mr. Ryan. Sometimes they end violently.

  • Jack Ryan: Do you know what happened three years ago today?

    Cathy Muller: You agreed to stop wearing cargo shorts?

  • Viktor Cherevin: Trust. Truth. I think it's like most opinions - best unexpressed.

  • William Harper: [waiting to see the president] Any way you can get that boy-scout-on-a-field-trip look off your face?

    Jack Ryan: [big smile] Not a chance.

    William Harper: That's what I like about you.

  • Jack Ryan: I'm in the CIA.

    Cathy Muller: Thank God. I thought you were having an affair.

  • William Harper: I want to send you back to school to finish your doctorate, then you'll join financial intelligence as an analyst. You'll work in a series of private banks on Wall Street while you'll use your position to uncover funding for terror groups.

    Jack Ryan: Covertly.

    William Harper: Yep. So, you have to keep it to yourself. Your employers won't know you work for us; the people you love won't know you do, either. It's gonna get lonely but... it's how we like to do things.

  • Cathy Muller: Look, I will see you tonight, we're having dinner, and we're gonna split the check.

  • Viktor Cherevin: The attack is coming, Jack. You can't stop it.