The Green Berets (1968)
John Wayne: Col. Mike Kirby
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Quotes
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[last lines]
Colonel Mike Kirby : You're what this is all about.
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Colonel Mike Kirby : What are you going to say in that newspaper of yours about us in Vietnam?
George Beckworth : If I say what I feel, I may be out of a job.
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Sergeant Muldoon : Are you sure that's what he wanted?
Colonel Mike Kirby : Affimative! That's what he wanted and that's what he's gonna get.
Sergeant Muldoon : We'll maybe he liked the idea of having so many men think about him every day.
Colonel Mike Kirby : Besides that... It SINGS!
[exits]
Sergeant Muldoon : [to himself] It sings? That's what he said. Provo's Privy, It DOES sing!
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Captain Coleman : Oh, uh, I noticed a load of corrugated tin has miraculously appeared overnight.
Capt. MacDaniel : Sergeant Petersen provided it.
Captain Coleman : Well, that's a good man you've got there.
Colonel Mike Kirby : Sergeant Petersen say where he got it?
Capt. MacDaniel : He, uh, said The Good Fairy left it.
Colonel Mike Kirby : [smiling] I hope he said The Good Fairy left it, SIR!
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Colonel Mike Kirby : What is there not to like? Who is she?
Col. Morgan : Her name is Lin. Her father was chief of the Han Phou provence.
Col. Cai : Until he refused to cooperate with the Viet Cong.
Colonel Mike Kirby : So, they killed him.
Col. Cai : They murdered him and her little brother in the most hideous way.
Colonel Mike Kirby : That's their style.
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George Beckworth : Is this what you really do out here? Sponsor an Inquisition?
Colonel Mike Kirby : Oh, is that what you're gonna say in that newspaper of yours?
George Beckworth : I'm gonna tell my readers the facts of what I saw in there!
Colonel Mike Kirby : What you saw in there was nothing.
George Beckworth : I don't call brutality nothing! Torturing one of your own South Vietnamese men!
Colonel Mike Kirby : That man in there was lining us up for a VC mortar crew!
George Beckworth : Even if that's true, there is still such a thing as due process!
Colonel Mike Kirby : Out here, due process is a bullet!