The Good Shepherd

"I just wanted to hear something from you that was true."

Edward Wilson: "How do you know I am the right person?"
Ray Brocco: "I was told you were a serious son of a bitch with no sense of humor, there can't be two of you."

"How did the Irish poet say it, hmm? 'E'er friend for today, is tomorrow's heartbreak'."

"No matter what anyone tells you there'll be no one you can really trust."

"I'm sorry for not standing, my fucking feet are killing me."

Bill Sullivan: "You understand that whatever we discuss here doesn't leave this room?"
Edward Wilson: "Of course."
Bill Sullivan: "The President has asked me to look into creating a foreign intelligence agency."

{Confronted about the killing of an untrustworthy British agent]
Edward Wilson: "This seems to me to be a problem for the British. Why are we involved?"
John Russell, Jr.: "The British are a particularly civilized people. They don't eat their own. They have somebody do it for them."

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."