Quotes from Powers Boothe movies and TV shows

Cassidy: You would have turned a Minuteman key without thinking.
Moreau: They gave me time to think.

Cassidy: Well congratulations. You just received the first battlefield commission of this war, whatever the hell this thing is.
Hooker: I'll take the job, Major. You can keep the bars.

Cassidy: You know it wouldn't do either of us any good if they knew I was poking the right hand man.
Moreau: Oh is that what you were doing?
Cassidy: Uh, what I mean is we function professionally first. Look, it violates PRP.
Moreau: You think nobody knows about us?
Cassidy: Yeah well, whatever. Look, it's best that we'll keep an official distance, that's all.
Moreau: The problem is your official distance starts the minute we get out of bed, I don't need that.

Mace Ryan: Chicago PD thinks you're a cop-killer, you know what that means?
Jake Lo: I'm off the departments Christmas list?

Mace Ryan: Name's Ryan. Lieutenant Mace Ryan.
Jake Lo: Jack Lo.
Mace Ryan: So tell me, Jake, are you having a bad day or what?

Spencer: Here's your ammo... blade to the throat, huh, that how they do these things in El Paso?
Hardin: Yeah, that's how they do things where I grew up.
Spencer: Thought you're some kind of chemical engineer.
Hardin: I am, and I'm out of the habit of spending time with a bunch of gun-totin' rednecks.
Spencer: Well, you know how it is, down here in Louisiana, we don't carry guns, we carry ropes, RC colas and moon pies, we're not too smart, but we have a real good time.

Hardin: A truck! A fuckin' truck.

Spencer: How long you been married?
Hardin: Five years.
Spencer: Happily?
Hardin: Yeah. I like her, she's got a good sense of humor. Why do you ask?
Spencer: Well, I just figured if I get out of here alive and you don't, I might look her up.
Hardin: Hey, I said she has a good sense of humor. I don't.

Hardin: I got news for you. He's nuts. I mean really fuckin' nuts.

Hardin: Four of them with automatic weapons against some swamp rat. I make it even money.

Spencer: Smokes made it through the water, huh?
Hardin: Yeah, saved a pack. Lucky, huh?

Vice President: You have no idea of the complexity.
Joshua Foss: I had an idea, I had this idea, and we are gonna make it work or we're gonna die trying. You will call the President, and on flash precedence priority, he will call the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury. Then banks will be notified, and the money will begin to move. Or it won't. And if it doesn't, when the game ends, everyone in this box and in this arena will die by explosion, fire and panic.

Joshua Foss: The mayor has decided not to run for re-election.