The Green Berets (1968)

John Wayne: Col. Mike Kirby

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• [last lines] 

  Colonel Mike Kirby : You're what this is all about.

• 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.

• 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!

• 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!

• 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.

• 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!