The Pentagon Wars (1998 TV Movie)

Christopher Grove: Congressman #1

Quotes 

• Major General Partridge : Just because the tests didn't turn out the way Colonel Burton thought they would, was no reason to suspect there was anything devious going on.

  Madame Chairwoman : I ask you General, filling the fuel tanks with *water* before a test to check the combustibility of those tanks, that wasn't devious?

  Major General Partridge : If the tanks had been filled with fuel, there's a good chance the vehicle would have exploded.

  [Stunned silence] 

  Congressman #1 : ...Isn't that the point?

  Major General Partridge : If the vehicle had exploded, we wouldn't be able to run additional tests!

• Major General Partridge : I'm not going to sit here and tell you the Paveway never missed.

  Madame Chairwoman : It missed by a mean distance of five miles, and nearly fifty percent of the time.

  Major General Partridge : You know, in baseball, a guy that hits .400 is considered pretty damned great.

  Congressman #1 : In baseball, the losing team isn't killed by their opponents.

• Congressman #1 : Did you, or did you not confront Colonel Burton at the Pentagon pharmacy and say to him:

  [reading] 

  Congressman #1 : "If I hear one more word about your - expletive deleted - report, you're gonna be sitting on your brains"?

  Major General Partridge : Does that sound like me, sir?

• Major General Partridge : We have had some spectacular successes.

  Congressman #1 : Such as?

  Major General Partridge : That's classified information!