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Lions for Lambs (2007) More at IMDbPro »

[from trailer]
Janine Roth: Says the man in the air-conditioned room.

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Senator Jasper Irving: Do you want to win the War on Terror? Yes or no?

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Todd Hayes: Who never says anything even though he never stops talking.

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Professor Stephen Malley: But you're never going to be the same person you are right now. Promise and potential are very fickle.

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Professor Stephen Malley: The decisions you make now, bud, can't be changed but with years and years of hard work to redo it... And in those years you become something different. Everybody does as the time passes. You get married, you get into debt... But you're never gonna be the same person you are right now. And promise and potential... It's very fickle, and it just might not be there anymore.
Todd Hayes: Are you assuming I already made a decision? And also that I'll live to regret it?
Professor Stephen Malley: All I'm saying is that you're an adult now... And the tough thing about adulthood is that it starts before you even know it starts, when you're already a dozen decisions into it. But what you need to know, Todd, no Lifeguard is watching anymore. You're on your own. You're your own man, and the decisions you make now are yours and yours alone from here until the end.

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Professor Stephen Malley: [quoting a German General] Nowhere else have I seen such lions led by such lambs.

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Janine Roth: Wow, you must be panicked.
Senator Jasper Irving: Oh no no no no. We're determined.

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Senator Jasper Irving: It is my responsibility, it's part of my job description to protect the American people and that is why we put this new strategy into motion now.
Janine Roth: So when does it start?
Senator Jasper Irving: [pauses while looking at his watch] Ten minutes ago.

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Professor Stephen Malley: You're good with words, Todd. But you know what would make them even better? If they had a heartbeat.

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Senator Jasper Irving: What I can say is that this strategy has patience and determination at its core. It ensures that it puts our fighting men in spots where they can face, and fight, and kill the enemy, so that we can then go on about rebuilding that country. And if it takes ten years, that's how long we stay, we do whatever it takes.
Janine Roth: [quoting the Senator] Whatever it takes.
Senator Jasper Irving: Whatever it takes.

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Janine Roth: Why did we send 150,000 troops to a country that did not attack us, and one-tenth that number to the one that did?
Senator Jasper Irving: How many times are you people going to ask the same question?
Janine Roth: Till we get the answer.

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Todd Hayes: Look, if we're gonna spend tax dollars, our tax dollars, to help people break the law in a safer way, why don't we have a designated drunk-driver lane on the highway too?

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Senator Jasper Irving: OK, let's play this out, we walk and afghan reverts back to the Taliban. Only now the Taliban has metastasis into something infinitely more vicious and potent because they are now 2-0 against superpowers. They butcher the people that helped us who voted and were stupid enough to put their faith in our word. So call it not only the end of hope for 10s of millions of Afghans but the end of American credibility but the end of America as a voice of Righteousness in the world. And when we are forced to go back in a couple years. We will be faced against a shattered Iraq, a hopeless Afghanistan and a nuclear Iran. How many troops are we going to need then? I guarantee you will be adding some zeros.

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Janine Roth: We took Iraq? How did I miss that?

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