Unthinkable Quotes

H: Youssef! Do you believe I can do this?

Agent Helen Brody: H., he believes it, he believes it!

H: Faith is not enough, he has to know it!

Agent Helen Brody: He knows it!

H: Knowing is not enough! He has to see it.

H: That man over there killed 53 people, some of them women and children and yet somehow I am the villian.

Colonel Kerkmejian: You keep your mouth shut, you maniac! You're fucking evil!

H: Oh, and he's not?

Agent Helen Brody: Jack, the suspect is being tortured. This is unconstitutional.

Assistant Director Jack Saunders: Helen, if those bombs go off there will be no fucking Constitution!

Steven Arthur Younger: What, you expect me to weep over 50 civilians?

Steven Arthur Younger: You people kill that number every day!

Agent Helen Brody: How could you do this? How could you?

Steven Arthur Younger: You wanted proof. I needed a break. I can hold out now.

Agent Helen Brody: It was a shopping mall! 53 people are dead!

Steven Arthur Younger: That was your fault! God loves them. They're martyrs, all martyrs.

Agent Helen Brody: 53 of them. 53 bodies blown to pieces!

H: Don't do it Brody!

Agent Helen Brody: [picks up scalpel and holds it to Younger's chest chest] Shut up! Where are those bombs? Where are those fucking bombs?

Steven Arthur Younger: Do it! Do it! I love my country, you people crap on it! I love my religion, you people spit on it! Just remember something, I'm here because I wanna be here! I let myself be caught, because I'm not a coward! I chose to meet my oppressors face to face! You call me a barbarian? Then what are you? What, you expect me to weep over 50 civillians? You people kill that number every day! How does it feel Brody? This is not about me! This is about you! How does it feel? You have no authority here! None! There is but one authority, and it is not you! You are a blight, you are a cancer! How does it feel Brody?

[first lines]

Steven Arthur Younger: [into video camera] My name is Steven Arthur Younger. I am an American citizen.

Agent Helen Brody: [turning off equipment] Mr. Younger, I'm Special Agent Brody, FBI. Your situation here is illegal, and I'm going to get you out of here so you and I can sit down and talk.

Steven Arthur Younger: [tied up] I think you'll find that this is entirely legal. And necessary.

Interrogator Lubitchich: What the hell's happening?

H: I am. You're out.

Agent Helen Brody: This is not what we talked about.

Charles Thompson: That's because you were only listening to yourself.

H: You do this and he'll say anything you want, and none of it will be true. Physical torture doesn't work.

H: So, uh, I guess that's why they've been using it since the beginning of human history, huh? For fun?

Agent Helen Brody: That's what makes you so special, is it? Our secret weapon against the enemy?

H: It's not about the enemy. It's about us. Our weakness. We're on the losing side, Helen. We're afraid, they're not. We doubt, they believe.

Agent Helen Brody: We have values.

H: And our values have cost us how many lives? It's not about that guy out there. He's not the problem. You are.

Agent Helen Brody: You know. You know what he does...

Rina Humphries: Of course.

Agent Helen Brody: How can you? You family, you children. You live in the same house with him. He's not normal.

Rina Humphries: Normal? Let me tell you something. I lost my first family in Bosnia. Three men come to my house. They rape me in front of my family, then kill everyone. My little boy, they kill last. These were my neighbors, they knew me. Very normal men.

[turns away]

Agent Helen Brody: Just do what you have to do.

H: What I have to do, Agent Brody, is... unthinkable.

Agent Helen Brody: H, they're children, innocent children!

H: There are no innocent children! Not his children anyway.

[last lines]

General Paulson: This never happened. They never existed. Younger, the children, none of them.

H: He doesn't want to be free.

Agent Helen Brody: Everyone wants to be free.

H: An assumption the U.S. Has screwed up all over the world.