A Most Wanted Man

"Your goat is tethered."

"Our sources don't come to us, we find them. We become their friends, their brothers, their fathers, their lovers, if we have to. When they're ours, and only then, we direct them at bigger targets. It takes a minnow to catch a barracuda, a barracuda to catch a shark."

Tommy Brue: "I am not doing this for you!"
Günther Bachmann: "Whatever it takes, Tommy."

"Have you ever seen blood on the street?"

"It's just an ordinary pen. Looks like a pen, writes like a pen, and listens like a pen."

Günther Bachmann: "I don't trust you."
Martha Sullivan: "Old habits die hard."
Günther Bachmann: "That's what I'm talking about."
Martha Sullivan: "I was talking about yours."

"Dr. Faisal Abdullah's everything we want him to be and a little bit more. He's tolerant, enlightened, engaged with the West. But, every good man has a little bit bad, hasn't he?"

Dieter Mohr: "After 24 hours of questioning, Karpov confessed to taking part in attacks on gas pipelines, transport, infrastructure, police stations."
Irna Frey: "After 24 hours of russian questioning anyone of us would admit to anything."