Charlie Wilson’s War Quotes (2007)
Charlie Wilson: You mean to tell me that the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan is to have the Afghans keep walking into machine gun fire ’til the Russians run out of bullets?
Gust Avrakotos: That’s Harold Holt’s strategy, not U.S. strategy.
Charlie Wilson: What is U.S. strategy?
Gust Avrakotos: Most strictly speaking, we don’t have one. But we’re working on it.
Charlie Wilson: Who’s ‘we’?
Gust Avrakotos: Me and three other guys.
Charlie’s Angel #4: The Congressman has never been to rehab. They don’t serve whisky at rehab.
Joanne Herring: Why is Congress saying one thing and doing nothing?
Charlie Wilson: Well, tradition mostly.
Charlie Wilson: You know you’ve reached rock bottom when you’re told you have character flaws by a man who hanged his predecessor in a military coup.
Joanne Herring: [Joanne has just told Bonnie to get her a cocktail] She doesn’t like me.
Charlie Wilson: Everybody likes you.
Joanne Herring: She’s a liberal.
Charlie Wilson: I’m a liberal.
Joanne Herring: [puts her hand on his butt] Not where it counts.
Charlie Wilson: You’re no James Bond.
Gust Avrakotos: You’re no Thomas Jefferson, either. Let’s call it even.
Gust Avrakotos: I bugged the scotch bottle.
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