Syriana Quotes

Syriana is a television show that was first aired in 1970 . Syriana ended its run in 1970.

It features Jennifer Fox; Michael Nozik, and Georgia Kacandes as producer, Alexandre Desplat in charge of musical score, and Robert Elswit as head of cinematography.

Syriana is distributed by Warner Bros..

The cast includes: Matt Damon as Bryan Woodman, Tim Blake Nelson as Danny Dalton, George Clooney as Bob Barnes, Christopher Plummer as Dean Whiting, Alexander Siddig as Prince Nasir Al-Subaai, Chris Cooper as Jimmy Pope, Amanda Peet as Julie Woodman, Mark Strong as Mussawi, Nicky Henson as Sydney Hewitt, Jeffrey Wright as Bennett Holiday, George Clooney as Robby Barnes, David Clennon as Donald, Peter Gerety as Leland Janus, William Hurt as Stan, Matt Damon as Max Woodman, Amanda Peet as Riley Woodman, David Clennon as Arash, Mazhar Munir as Saleem Ahmed Khan, and Mazhar Munir as Wasim Khan.

Syriana Quotes

George Clooney as Bob Barnes

• (George Clooney) "Innocent until investigated? That's nice. It's got a nice ring to it. Bet you've worn some miles on old sayings like that. Gives the listener the sense of the law being written as it's spoken."

• (George Clooney) "If anything happens to me or my family, an accident, an accusation, anything, then first your son will disappear, his body will never be found. Then your wife. Her body will never be found either. This is guaranteed. Then, whatever is the most dangerous thing you do in your life, it might be flying in a small plane, it might be walking to the bank, you will be killed. Do you understand what I'm saying? I want you to acknowledge that you do understand so that we're clear and there won't be any mistakes."
• (Christopher Plummer) "Beirut rules, Mr. Barnes?"

• (George Clooney) "Why am I being investigated, Fred?"

• (George Clooney) "I want you to take him from his hotel, drug him, put him in the front of a car, and run a truck into it at 50 mph."

• (George Clooney) "Intelligence work isn't training seminars and gold stars for attendance."
• (Fred Franks) "What do you think intelligence work is Bob?"
• (George Clooney) "I think it's two people in a room and one of them's asking a favor that is a capital crime in every country on earth, a hanging crime."
• (Fred Franks) "No Bob, it's assessing the information gathered from that favor and then balancing it against all the other information gathered from all the other favors."

• (George Clooney) "I punched in "Prince Nasir Al-Subaai" and my computer gets seized. Where'd that job come from? Where did the Nasir job come from?"
• (Fred Franks) "I'm advising you to drop it."
• (George Clooney) "Why am I being investigating? Why am I being investigating, Fred?"
• (Fred Franks) "Goodbye, Bob."

Chris Cooper as Jimmy Pope

• (Chris Cooper) "You dig a six-foot hole and you'll find three bodies. Dig twelve and maybe you'll find forty."

• (Chris Cooper) "No, I wanna talk about the Gulf and how a god**** Emir -- What is an Emir, anyway?"
• (Tommy Barton) "King, it's a king."
• (Chris Cooper) "Well, how some Podunk king tossed you out on your ass. Every company in the world wanted into Kazakhstan, into the Tengiz, but Killen got it. And then Connex wanted Killen, and here we are. I made investments. Investments that'll bear fruit for this company. Hell, Tommy we've all got the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act committed to memory. I got a little copy of it taped to the wall of my head. Right here."

• (Chris Cooper) "Call me Jimmy."

Jeffrey Wright as Bennett Holiday

• (Jeffrey Wright) "We're looking for the illusion of due diligence, Mr. Pope."

• (Jeffrey Wright) "Come on, man. Leave the beer."

• (Jeffrey Wright) "Lawyers say, "Hey, if you can't trust a Big Five accounting firm", the accountant say "Hey, we're not lawyers". Legal didn't understand. Accounting didn't understand. Nobody understood anything. Regulatory bodies scratched their heads for a minute that nobody at Connex or Killen was at fault. But this merger is so balance-positive for American consumers that, ultimately, Justice wants it. Federal courts want it. Everybody wants it. Our real client, after all, is us, the American people. And we are increasing American access to oil in Kazakhstan. So all they ask is that we give them a little something meaningful, which we did. And they got out of our way."
• (Peter Gerety) "Something besides Dalton?"
• (Jeffrey Wright) "Unfortunately, yes. And the best option seemed to be a secret deal for a excess Iranian pipeline capacity that I uncovered during the diligence. A little side deal benefiting the lead lawyer involved in the Connex-Killen merger approval process."
• (Nicky Henson) "What -- do you think you're doing?"
• (Jeffrey Wright) "Of course, it's illegal for an American to control these rights."
• (Nicky Henson) "Stop right now."
• (Peter Gerety) "Is there uh something that you wanna tell me, Syd?"

Mark Strong as Mussawi

• (Mark Strong) "Bob, what do you know about the torture methods used by the Chinese on the Falun Gong? Huh? Method number one. What's your guess?"
• (Mark Strong) "Water dungeon. Did you guess water dungeon? Number two method? Number two, twisting arm and putting face in feces. Not interested in two? Number three. Number three is called 'pulling nails from fingers'. What do you think Bob? Number three sound good to you? The purpose is to get the monks or whatever to recant their beliefs. What if I had to get you to recant? That would be pretty difficult right? Because if you have no beliefs to recant then what? Then you're f***ed is what. You're going to give me the names of every person who's taken money from you."
• (Mark Strong) "Oh that is dusgusting."
• (George Clooney) "Come on Jimmy, you're not one of those Koran thumpers."
• (Mark Strong) "My name is Mussawi."
• (Mark Strong) "You f***ing f***, f***ing f***, stupid f***, what the f***, this is a war. f*** you're a PO f***ing W. Give me the f***ing names. I'm cutting his f***ing head off. I'm going to cut your head off, Bob."

• (Mark Strong) "Rumours of Bob but never Bob. It is Bob, right?"

Alexander Siddig as Prince Nasir Al-Subaai

• (Alexander Siddig) "Americans love to drill holes in other people's countries."

• (Alexander Siddig) "What are they thinking, my brother and these American lawyers?"
• (Matt Damon) "What are they thinking? They're thinking that it's running out. It's running out -- and ninety percent of what's left is in the Middle East. This is a fight to the death."

• (Alexander Siddig) "When a country has five percent of the world's population but does fifty percent of its military spending, then the persuasive powers of that country are on the decline."

• (Alexander Siddig) "He's barely qualified to run a brothel much less a country."

David Clennon as Arash

• (David Clennon) "Bobby, where have you been?"

• (David Clennon) "The Chinese are smart people, but such bad drivers. They should not be allowed to even wash cars."

Matt Damon as Max Woodman

• (Matt Damon) "Great. How much for my other kid?"

• (Matt Damon) "Beirut, it's great. It's like the Paris of the Middle East."

• (Matt Damon) "I want real bacon."
• (Amanda Peet) "You havereal bacon; only it's madefrom soybeans."
• (Matt Damon) "I want pig bacon."
• (Amanda Peet) "I want pig bacon too."

Tim Blake Nelson as Danny Dalton

• (Tim Blake Nelson) "Some trust fund prosecutor, got off-message at Yale thinks he's gonna run this up the flagpole? Make a name for himself? Maybe get elected some two-bit congressman from nowhere, with the result that Russia or China can suddenly start having, at our expense, all the advantages we enjoy here? No, I tell you. No, sir. Corruption charges. Corruption? Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations. That's Milton Friedman. He got a god**** Nobel Prize. We have laws against it precisely so we can get away with it. Corruption is our protection. Corruption keeps us safe and warm. Corruption is why you and I are prancing around in here instead of fighting over scraps of meat out in the streets. Corruption is why we win."

Mazhar Munir as Wasim Khan

• (Mazhar Munir) "If I truly lack faith then I'm not the right person."
• (Farooq) "The questioning means that you have faith and makes it stronger."
• (Mazhar Munir) "That's a lot of s***, I think."

Nicky Henson as Sydney Hewitt

• (Nicky Henson) "You've just visited what someday soon could be the most profitable corporation in America."
• (Jeffrey Wright) "Provided the government approves the merger."
• (Nicky Henson) "Provided we don't start running automobiles on water and provided there's still chaos in the Middle East. Now the job is find the problem, fix the problem. And if you do not find a problem, then there is no problem. And -- WHEN the government approves this merger, it's going to buy a lot of houses in the Vineyard. Maybe even yours."

Christopher Plummer as Dean Whiting

• (Christopher Plummer) "Bennett."
• (Jeffrey Wright) "Sir?"
• (Christopher Plummer) "At my firm, I have a flock of sheep who think they're lions. Maybe you're a lion everyone thinks is a sheep."

William Hurt as Stan

• (William Hurt) "I like consulting. No, I love it. Love it. And I'll say this for it: "Private business is efficient." There, I've said it. f***ing cliché. And the CIA is like, what, a 30-billion-dollar-a-year business, so anybody who wants to sell anything, a pencil, a computer, they gotta interface through a security clearance. Don't give me s***. I got two kids in college and we're doing our kitchen."
• (George Clooney) "Stan, I got a chance to go back to Beirut. I wanna go back. Is it safe for me?"
• (William Hurt) "Are we talking about with your wife or with the wackos?"
• (William Hurt) "Clear it with Hezbollah."

Amanda Peet as Riley Woodman

• (Amanda Peet) "Arabs are very family-oriented. As a people. Is that racist?"
• (Matt Damon) "Sure. A little."

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