The Good Shepherd * Quotes

Joseph Palmi: "Let me ask you something... we Italians, we got our families, and we got the church; the Irish, they have the homeland, Jews their tradition; even the niggers, they got their music. What about you people, Mr. Wilson, what do you have?"
Edward Wilson: "The United States of America. The rest of you are just visiting."

"I remember a senator once asked me. When we talk about 'CIA' why we never use the word 'the' in front of it. And I asked him, do you put the word 'the' in front of 'God'?"

"Take a look around. I've got an oversight meeting. Can you imagine? They think they can look into our closet, as if we'd let them."

Edward: "My orders came through. I'll be going overseas."
Clover: "What are you going to do, Edward? Save the world?"
Edward: "I'll do what I can."

Edward Wilson: "I could take the government off your back if you could help us."
Joseph Palmi: "You're the guys that scare me. You're the people that make big wars."
Edward Wilson: "No, we make sure the wars are small ones, Mr. Palmi."

Edward: "You are never to tell anyone what it is that I do!"
Clover: "What you do? I don't know what you do! You leave at five, you're home at ten, seven days a week! I live with a ghost! I don't know anything about you!"

Ulysses: "When I was a soldier, my fingers were frost-bitten. Since then, when I get cold there is a pain."
Edward Wilson: "Maybe you shouldn't live in Russia."