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24 (TV series)

24 (2001–2010) is a U.S. television action/drama/thriller series on the Fox Network, created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran (both formerly of La Femme Nikita). Each season covers the events of one day (or 24 hours; hence the title) in the life of federal agent Jack Bauer, played by Kiefer Sutherland.

Day 1

 * [Repeated introduction.]
 * Jack Bauer: I'm Federal Agent Jack Bauer, and today is the longest day of my life.

12:00am - 1:00am [1.01]

 * David Palmer: All right, "On this historic occasion..."
 * Patty Brooks: Well, it is a historic occasion, sir.

 * Kim: So, is she still giving you the cold shoulder?
 * Jack: If by "she" you're referring to your mother, I'd appreciate if you called her by her name. Mom. And no, she's just busy.
 * Kim: She's busy a lot.

 * Vincent O'Brien: Hello?
 * Jack: Vincent, Jack Bauer. You planning on seeing Kimberly tonight?
 * Vincent O'Brien: No way, man. We broke up, you know that.
 * Jack: I just wanted to make sure you knew that.
 * Vincent: Snuck out on you, huh?
 * Jack: Don't screw with me, Vincent.
 * Vincent O'Brien: Chill, man. I don't know where she is. You've got my word.
 * Jack: That's a real comfort, Vincent, knowing I've got your word.

 * Jamey Farrell: How long is this going to take?
 * Nina: Why, are we interrupting your social life?
 * Jamey Farrell: At least I have one.
 * Nina: Funny.

 * Jack: Tony. I need detailed background on everyone on Senator Palmer's staff now.
 * Tony: Why?
 * Jack: Because I think this is about him and I want us to be prepared.
 * Tony: If it leaks out that we're screening Senator Palmer, people might think it's because he's black.
 * Jack: Well, it is because he's black. It makes him the most likely target.

 * Richard Walsh: We have reason to believe that by the end of the day an attempt will be made on David Palmer's life.

 * Richard Walsh: How are you doing?
 * Jack: I can't complain.
 * Richard Walsh: Can't or won't?

 * Richard Walsh: If Palmer gets hit, the first African-American with a real shot at the White House, they'll tear this country apart.

 * Nina: You're lying.
 * Jack: Yes I am. But you're still going to have to trust me.

 * Jack: I was thinking we should try to remember what it was like when we were kids.
 * Teri Bauer: It's a different world now, Jack.
 * Jack: Yeah, I know.

 * Jack: George. I need you to do me a favor. I need you to call your boss so I can get clearance on the identification of the source.
 * George Mason: I thought we just agreed that it didn't matter.
 * Jack: Yeah, but I still have to call Walsh and tell him I did everything I could. I would like to cover my own ass.
 * George Mason: Jack, you're finally learning how to play the game.

 * Jack: You can look the other way once, and it's no big deal, except it makes it easier for you to compromise the next time, and pretty soon that's all you're doing; compromising, because that's the way you think things are done. You know those guys I busted? You think they were the bad guys? Because they weren't, they weren't bad guys, they were just like you and me. Except they compromised... Once.

 * Nina: Tony, I need you to do something for me.
 * Tony: For you or for Jack?

 * George Mason: You have no idea what you're getting yourself into.
 * Jack: Why don't you explain it to me. You've got five seconds.

2:00am - 3:00am [1.03]

 * Ira Gaines: The job is on summer. Are you in?
 * Mandy: Yes.
 * Ira Gaines [to Jonathon, who just killed Bridgit]: You're done here.

 * Tony: You mind telling me what's going on around here tonight?
 * Jack: What's going on? You mean besides a 747 falling out of the sky and a threat on a presidential candidate's life?
 * Tony: Yeah, besides that.

4:00am - 5:00am [1.05]

 * Dan: (Referring to Janet York) Well, err, maybe she wasn't quite dead.
 * Ira Gaines: Well, let me tell you Dan; You're either dead, or you're not dead. There's no such thing as 'sort of dead'. Here, let me show you. (Shoots Dan in the chest)
 * Ira Gaines: (To Rick) You've just been promoted, congratulations.

 * Ira Gaines (referring to Dan's dead body): Bury your friend.
 * Rick: Where?
 * Ira Gaines: (annoyed) In the ground

7:00am - 8:00am [1.08]

 * Tony: How could you do this? Betray your country, be responsible for the deaths of people you work with?
 * Jamey Farrell: I told you, I didn't know any of that was going to happen.
 * Tony: Oh, that's right. You're just tappin' on your keyboard, right?

8:00am - 9:00am [1.09]

 * Jack: Lauren, I have killed two people since midnight. I have not slept for over 24 hours. So maybe, maybe you should be a little more afraid of me than you are right now. Sit!!

10:00am - 11:00am [1.11]

 * Jack: You probably don't think that I can force this towel down your throat. But trust me, I can. All the way. Except I'd hold onto this one little bit at the end. When your stomach starts to digest it, I pull it out. Taking your stomach lining with it. For most people it would take about a week to die. It's very painful.

12:00pm - 1:00pm [1.13]

 * Rick: (Suffering from a bullet wound and running through the woods) I can't!
 * Jack: Shut up! You can and you will!
 * Rick: But I'm slowing you down.
 * Jack: Yes you are, so you'd better start speeding up!

 * Jack: Part of getting a second chance is taking responsibility for the mess you made in the first place.

1:00pm - 2:00pm [1.14]

 * Milo Pressman: What do you think they're going to do to Jack?
 * Tony: Not going to name a street after him.

 * Tony: Let me save you some time, Mr. Chappelle. I'm not the biggest fan of Jack Bauer. I don't agree with the way he delegates authority, and I don't like the way he runs operations. But since midnight last night, you won't get me to disapprove of a single action he's taken.

5:00pm - 6:00pm [1.18]

 * George Mason: Hey! Almeida. I'm on your side. Nina oughta be here right now, what does Jack need her for? You're busting your ass without any resources because she felt like taking a ride with him. If that works for you, great…
 * Tony: You know what works for me? You keeping out of my personal business, that works for me!

7:00pm - 8:00pm [1.20]

 * Teri Bauer: [hysterical, talking about Kim] What do you mean you don't know where she is?
 * Tony: After the safehouse, she didn't trust us and I don't blame her. Get in!
 * Teri Bauer: We have to find her, Tony! We have to find her!
 * Tony: Believe me, we're looking. Teri, GET IN THE CAR!

8:00am - 9:00am [2.01]

 * Jack: You are Marshall Goren?
 * Marshall: Yeah.
 * Jack: Eight counts, kidnapping a minor. Two counts, child pornography. First-degree murder.
 * Marshall: Yeah, uh-huh. Hey, look: I already made my deal, and I don't need to hear this noise. All I've gotta do is testify against Wald, and I walk. [smirks]
 * [Jack regards Marshall for a moment, then draws his weapon and shoots him in the heart]
 * George: Oh, my God, Jack! What are you thinking?!
 * Jack: I need a helicopter and a backup team ready to leave here in fifteen minutes.
 * George: Are you out of your mind?
 * Jack: You want to find this bomb? This is what it's gonna take.
 * George: Killing a witness?
 * Jack: That's the problem with people like you, George. You want results, but you never want to get your hands dirty. I'd start rolling up your sleeves... I'm gonna need a hacksaw.

 * Paula Schaeffer: I didn't know how you liked intel presented impromptu. Whether you like it sorted chronologically with an alphabetical key or if you just like separate folders with access tabs...
 * Tony: Uhh…I don't really care.

11.00 am - 12.00 pm [2.04]

 * Mason: Send somebody else. I need you here.
 * Tony: To do what, watch Paula die?

1:00pm - 2:00pm [2.06]

 * Jack: Did you pick this area for a reason? Or would anywhere outside the blast zone work?
 * Nina: My contact is in Visalia. I'm not gonna tell you who it is 'til we get there.
 * Jack: Fine. Then we can just sit here and wait for the blast to hit.
 * Nina: Stop wasting time. I'm sitting here looking at the President's signature.
 * Jack: I'm here. He's not. And I'm not gonna make a move until I believe you're credible.
 * Nina: I'll only get the pardon if I help stop the bomb. Why wouldn't I do everything I can?
 * Jack: Because you're worse than a traitor, Nina. You don't even have a cause. You don't believe in anything. You would sell anyone and everything out to the highest bidder. So, (Jack overturns the table between them) stop wasting my time! Give me a name!
 * Nina: Don't even bother, Jack. You lay a hand on me, you'll be taken off the case. You're just gonna have to follow my lead.

''[Jack glares. Nina finally smiles. This sets Jack off, who then charges at Nina--pushing her against the wall, grabbing her by throat as she chokes. The CTU surveillance races towards the interrogation room]''
 * Jack: You are gonna tell me everything I want to know, or I swear to God--I will hurt you before I kill you. And no one will stop me, do you understand that?

2:00pm - 3:00pm [2.07]

 * Nina: He is gonna put a bullet in my head before I can say 'hello' and then he's going to turn the gun on himself.
 * Jack: We'll make sure he doesn't turn the gun on himself.

 * Michelle: I just got off the phone with Ed Mueller.
 * George Mason: How is it going with Jack and Nina.
 * Michelle: He doesn't know. Apparently, Jack drugged him and got on the plane without him.
 * George Mason: Please tell me you're kidding.
 * Michelle: (Shakes her head) What do you want me to do?
 * George Mason: He is on a plane to Vasailla. There is nothing anyone can do...

3:00pm - 4:00pm [2.08]

 * [Recalling Teri talking with an old woman the Sunday before her death]
 * Jack: The Sunday before you killed my wife... Teri and I went to the boardwalk in Venice just watching all the roller-bladers and musicians, laughing at the crazy people, spending time together. And Teri sees this sno-cone stand. She giggles like a kid. She takes off running, she wants to get in line, she wants one. I remember I was watching her, I was just... I couldn't help myself. When I look up at her she's talking to this old lady in line behind her and the two of them are laughing, and I'm thinking to myself, how the hell does she do that. How does she strike up a conversation with an absolute stranger? And they just start laughing. Like they'd been friends forever. That's a GIFT. I remember thinking, God, I wish I could do that. But I can't. That was Teri. My wife. That's what you took from this world, Nina. That's what you took from me, and my daughter. I just wanted you to know that.
 * [Nina stares impassively]
 * Jack: I just wanted you to know that.

 * Tony: Hey, your neck's bleeding here.
 * Michelle: [after feeling it] It's somebody else's blood.
 * Tony: Look, Michelle. Why don't you take a few minutes, get cleaned up and change. You'll feel better. [whispers] We're gonna survive this day, all right?

4:00pm - 5:00pm [2.09]

 * Nina: Drop it, Jack. I SAID, DROP IT! I DON'T WANNA SHOOT YOU JUST YET, BUT I WILL IF I HAVE TO!!! (to the rest of the CTU officers) STAND DOWN! STAND DOWN OR HE'S DEAD!!!
 * Jack: STAND DOWN!!! SHE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN LEAD US TO THE BOMB!!!

 * [Nina has taken Jack hostage and is going to kill him.]
 * Nina: This isn't how you thought it would end, is it, Jack?
 * Jack: This isn't over yet.

5:00pm - 6:00pm [2.10]

 * [on her betraying CTU]
 * Nina: It didn't have to be like this, Jack. I never meant for this to be personal.
 * Jack: It felt pretty personal when you killed my wife.
 * Nina: I had to. Teri overheard something that compromised my escape route.
 * Jack: What about bombing CTU? All those people you used to work with?
 * Nina: I didn't bomb CTU, I just sold the plans.
 * Jack: You believe what you have to, Nina, but you killed your friends.
 * Nina: SHUT UP, JACK! SHUT UP!

 * [Jack is backing away from Nina, who is threatening to kill him]
 * Jack: You kill me before they verify the information you gave 'em, you'll be in violation of your agreement and they'll slap your ass back in jail.
 * Nina: And you'll be dead.
 * Jack: I'm already dead.

 * David Palmer: [On Nina Myers] Let her share the fate of everyone she's endangered.

 * [Marie is holding a gun on Reza]
 * Reza Naiyeer: The…the past two years have been…just an act, is that it? I mean- I mean nothing to you?
 * [Marie tears up]
 * Reza Naiyeer: [last words, shouting] Huh?! I don't understand! Say something, Marie!
 * Marie Warner: Reza…you really are very sweet.
 * [Marie shoots and kills Reza]

 * Tony: [to Michelle] So, uh, what are we saying here? If we save L.A. from a nuclear bomb, then you and I can get together for dinner and a movie? is that it?

9:00pm - 10:00pm [2.14]

 * David Palmer: If there is something you're not telling me, something that could help us find this bomb, as President of the United States, I'm ordering you—No, no. As someone you claim you love, I'm asking you—Help me, Sherry.

 * Marie Warner: I am going to help you. I'm going to help you stop being a part of the problem.
 * Kate Warner: So it's OK with you if Dad and I die today?
 * Marie Warner: I killed Reza…and I loved him. Why would I care about you and Dad?
 * Kate Warner: Because we love you.

 * Tony: [addressing the CTU staff] In case you haven't heard, George Mason was exposed to a lethal dose of plutonium this morning. I'm afraid he hasn't got much time. He just left the office and he won't be coming back, which means that I'll be in charge until further notice. Now, on a normal day, we'd be mourning George, just like we would've mourned Ivers, Clark…and Paula, and the rest of our co-workers who were killed here today. Unfortunately we're gonna have to hold our thoughts of them until we can get through this present crisis. So…let's get back to work.

10:00pm - 11:00pm [2.15]

 * Jack Bauer: [talking to his daughter Kim] I want you to live your life. I want you to be happy, that's all I ever wanted for you. I want you try and grow up and be the kind of person that would've made your mom proud.

 * George Mason: Service is bad enough on this plane, you don't have to shoot me.
 * Jack: What are you doing on this plane?
 * George Mason: Felt like taking a ride.

 * George Mason: [Regarding Jack's plan to sacrifice himself to safely detonate the nuclear device] Come on, Jack, you've had a death wish ever since Teri died. The way things have been going for you the past year and a half, this probably doesn't look like such a bad idea. You get to go out in a blaze of glory, one of the greatest heroes of all time, leave your troubles behind. You still have a life, Jack. You wanna be a real hero, here's what you do: you get back down there and you put the pieces together. You find a way to forgive yourself for what happened to your wife. You make things right with your daughter and you go on serving your country. That'd take some real guts.

11:00pm - 0:00am [2.16]

 * Yusuf Auda I'm supposed to update my home office right now, but I have nothing to report, except that I've been excluded from this investigation since I arrived
 * Tony Look, I'll tell you what I can. You can call your home office and tell them whatever you want [...]

12:00am - 1:00am [2.17]

 * Jack: They're going to be five minutes.
 * Jonathan: And here we are without a deck of cards. [pause] You know, I was down at Fort Benning when Colonel Samuels tried to recruit you? Yeah. He was real disappointed when you turned him down. He said you were a born killer.
 * [Jack says nothing]
 * Jonathan: Is that true?
 * [Jack says nothing, but blinks and turns downward]:

2:00am - 3:00am [2.19]

 * Peter Kingsley: Look, I need the chip, so let's not be pigs here. You tell Ronnie where the chip is, I authorize a large sum—large enough to compensate any kind of guilt you might feel about this.
 * Jack: It's not for sale.
 * Kingsley: If someone wants to buy it, it's for sale.
 * Jack: How can you justify starting a war to profit from the outcome?
 * Kingsley: We're just controlling the chaos, that's all.
 * Jack: No, you're causing it.
 * Kingsley: Let's not waste any time trying to bridge each other's differences. There's only one thing we need to agree on—a price.
 * Jack: I already gave you my answer.
 * Kingsley: When Ronnie's finished working on you, you'll give me another.

4:00am - 5:00am [2.21]

 * Jack: There are bad things in this world that are out of control. Sometimes we like to blame ourselves so we can try and make sense of them.

7:00am - 8:00am [2.24]

 * Ryan Chappelle: So…what's up, my friend?
 * Tony: Well, um…it's like this. Either fire me…or get out of my chair.

Day 3

 * Tagline: The first wave of attack will be terror. The last line of defense will be him.

1:00pm - 2:00pm [3.01]

 * Michelle Dessler: I'll go anywhere with you…as long as I don't have to cook.
 * Tony: Sweetheart, if you promise not to cook, I will take you with me anywhere.

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m [3.02]

 * Jack: What the hell do you know? My wife died because of this job. I almost lost Kim too. I'm not going to let that happen again. I will do everything I have to, to protect her. Do you understand me? Everything! Damn it Chase, you can not have a normal life and do this job at the same time.
 * Chase: So you're saying I shouldn't have a relationship with anyone?
 * Jack: That's exactly what I'm saying... especially with my daughter.

 * Jack: Shut up, stupid! You just fired at a federal agent. You better start talking to me, or I will let you bleed to death right here on this landing.

3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m [3.03]

 * Anne: David, no reason to be suspicious. God knows, you've been betrayed by the people you trust the most. I'm not Sherry.

 * Luis: Unless Hector has a key to this place, you aren't going anywhere.
 * Ramon: But he does have a key. And when he turns it, the last 2 years of your life, all the hours you spent away from your family, all the work you've done to put me here will go away (he snaps) just like that. I wanted you to hear it from me. I wanted it to be the last thing you ever heard.
 * (The guard comes and kills Luis)

7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. [3.07]

 * Gael: Don't get in my way, Michelle!
 * Michelle: External security is already in position, you're not going anywhere. You take one step outside, you know exactly what will happen.

 Ramon: Hello Jack. The party's going well, I wanted you to know. There's something else I wanted you to know. For some reason Hector wants you alive. Maybe he wants to kill you himself. Or maybe he wants to watch me do it. I'm just not sure I can wait that long.

8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. [3.08]

 * Chappelle: I'm not so sure this is gonna work out well for you, Almeida.
 * Tony: Maybe not, but right now I gotta help Jack get this virus and I don't need you looking over my shoulder, alright?
 * Chappelle: You work for me. You don't give orders; you take them.
 * Tony: Yeah, except the president put me in charge of this particular operation. Now, if you object, give him a call. I may be wrong, but I didn't get the impression that he's in the mood for any bureaucratic squabbling today.

 * Jack: A few years ago my wife was killed because of my job; my daughter's never been the same since. This last year, well you know what I went through to bring you in, what did I get for it? A pat on the back, in the end--a demotion, and a heroin habit. I'm tired of putting my ass on the line for nothing. I'm done putting my ass on the line for nothing.

10:00pm – 11:00pm [3.10]

 * Nina: You really did break Salazar out of prison.
 * Jack: I'm not the man you knew before.
 * Nina: Well, I don't know about that.
 * [Nina begins to caress Jack.]
 * Nina: But for 20 million dollars, I'm gonna keep an open mind. So, Jack…if we're gonna go forward with this, I have to know one thing. Are you gonna be able to forgive me for killing Teri?
 * Jack: If I wanted revenge, Nina, I would have killed you already. You know that. It's like I said, I just want to finish this deal and disappear for good.
 * Nina: Convince me.

11:00pm – 12:00am [3.11]

 * Nina: I'm sorry, Jack. I wanted to believe that you'd changed, but I can feel it. You're lying.

2:00am – 3:00am [3.14]

 * Tony: [While interrogating Nina, he tells her about Alvers' medical history] Being treated for a knee injury, treated for HIV.
 * [In the other room, they could tell Nina's pulse raise slightly upon hearing Alvers' HIV treatment]
 * Michelle: [Talking to Tony over comm] It is likely Nina had sex with Alvers.
 * Tony: Now see Nina, my collegues in the other room has just informed me that there is something in Alvers' file that, concerns you. I'm guessing it's not the knee.

3:00am – 4:00am [3.15]

 * Amador: You betrayed me, Jack. You were with CTU all along.
 * Jack: That's right, Amador. You betrayed me, too. I'm just better at it than you.

4:00am – 5:00am [3.16]

 * Stephen: You are no longer in control of your country. And if you do not use the full power to execute my wishes, the virus will be released and it will be impossible to stop.

 * David: (to Sherry) I despise you for what you've done. And I despise my role in helping you get away with it. Get out of my sight.

5:00am – 6:00am [3.17]

 * Stephen: Mr. President?
 * David: Yes.
 * Stephen: It's time for your first assignment. A very simple one, but one necessary to our future relationship.
 * David: We don't have a relationship.
 * Stephan: No, you don't negotiate with terrorists. Well, I don't negotiate with heads of state, so just do what you're told.

6:00am – 7:00am [3.18]

 * Jack: Sorry we let you down, Ryan. (pauses) God forgive me.

 * Jack: The only thing you need to know is that I need these files decrypted now.
 * Chloe: Well, I'm doing my very best. Your tone of voice is not exactly a morale booster.
 * Jack: (exasperated) Chloe, please just do it!

7:00am – 8:00am [3.19]

 * Jack You and I have been doing this long enough to know that there is no such thing as a meaningless lie. How are you involved in this?
 * Tony: You're not making any sense, Jack. That intel was good. Without it you'd have never been in the white house to save the President.
 * Jack: What is your involvement?
 * Tony: You're not thinking straight.
 * Jack: How were you shot? Does Galvez even have a second man or was it just you?
 * Tony: Just stop and listen to what you're saying. It's insane. It's paranoia. Now, why don't you put the gun down?
 * Jack: Don't you move!
 * Tony: The toxin is starting to affect your judgement. That's what's happening. You can see that, right? Is this what you're looking for? I never wanted to hurt you, Jack. I told you to stay out of it. But you wouldn't listen, would you?

8:00am – 9:00am [3.20]

 * Tony: Chloe, I'm getting real tired of your personality.

10:00am – 11:00am [3.22]

 * Tony: My God Jack, didn't you learn anything from what happened to Teri?
 * Jack: (pushing him away) SHUT UP, TONY! Shut up!
 * Tony: Just because you sacrificed your wife for this job doesn't mean I'm gonna sacrifice mine!

11:00am – 12:00pm [3.23]
(CTU agents drag Stephen Saunders to the local Chandler Plaza Hotel. We see corpses being dragged out in body bags)
 * Jack: Take a look at your handiwork, Stephen. WHOLE FAMILIES!
 * Stephen: Sometimes a fire needs to be lit to put out another fire.
 * Jack: I don't need to hear your justification, Stephen. This is over!

 (CTU agents force Jane Saunders through the walkway and into the infecting building)
 * Stephen: Let her go! Do as I say now, Jack!
 * Jack: When your daughter is infected, I'm gonna make you watch her die.

12:00pm – 1:00pm [3.24]

 * Tony: [to Michelle] Baby, you're alive. And nobody else got hurt because of what I did. Now that's more than I hoped for. I can live with that. Even in prison.

7:00am - 8:00am [4.01]

 * James Heller: Spare me your sixth-grade Michael Moore logic!

 * Jack: What is happening at eight o'clock?! I am not messing with you.
 * [He flips the table.]
 * Jack: You are going to tell me what is happening at eight o'clock!
 * [He shoots Sherek's leg.]
 * Jack: What is your primary objective?! What is your primary objective?!
 * Sherek: Secretary of Defense!
 * Jack: Secretary Heller? Secretary Heller's the target! Call Secret Service now!

2:00pm - 3:00pm [4.08]

 * Audrey: Look. We were fighting for our lives a few minutes ago, and if it hadn't been for Tony, we would've been dead. Now I've been through a lot today, and I'm sure, when this is all over, your boss will understand.
 * Jen Slater: And if he doesn't?
 * Audrey: [deadpan] I can have him killed.
 * [They both grin.]
 * Jen Slater: Knock yourself out.

 * Henry Powell: Who are you guys? Police? FBI?
 * Tony: Actually, I'm currently unemployed.

7:00pm - 8:00pm [4.13]

 * Tony: Some people are more comfortable in hell.

Day 5

 * Tagline: To the world, he's dead. But he is about to become the most wanted man alive.

7:00am - 8:00am [5.01]

 * [First Lady Martha Logan stands before a bathroom sink, dismayed.]
 * Martha Logan: I look like a wedding cake.

8:00am - 9:00am [5.02]

 * Jack: Let's get one thing straight, kid. The only reason you're still conscious is because I don't want to carry you. Now get in the van.

 * [In a van, Derek watches nervously as Jack moves to incapacitate an FBI agent.]
 * Chloe: Relax. He's really good at this.

1:00pm - 2:00pm [5.07]

 * [President Logan lays into Cummings about his botched entrapment of Russian separtist terrorists.]
 * Walt Cummings: Oh, you make it sound like our goal was to kill Americans!
 * Charles Logan: What the hell was your goal, Walt?! Explain that to me!
 * Walt Cummings: I'm a patriot, s— Mr. President. We were acting in the best interest of this country.
 * Charles Logan: How is any of this in our best interest?
 * Walt Cummings: Shoring up a-a strategic partner in the war on terror? Ensuring a stable flow of oil? How is any of that not in our national interest?

4:00pm - 5:00pm [5.10]

 * [Martha has hung up on Logan after refusing to get out of the Suvarovs' limousine. Logan argues with Mike.]
 * Charles Logan: What am I missing, Mike?! T-t-t-there's gotta be some way out, something that I'm not seeing.
 * Mike Novick: You are not missing anything. Any action we take to save Martha would save the Suvarovs. And if that happens, the terrorists will release the gas. Unfortunately, it's that simple.
 * Charles Logan: And there's nothing we can do, right? Unless I warn them… Martha's going to die with the Suvarovs.

 * Charles Logan: Damn you Martie, putting me in such position.

 * [In CTU, Carrie is on the phone.]
 * Carrie Bendis: Understood. Those protocols should be coming over shortly.
 * Caller: Okay.
 * [Carrie hangs up. Lynn comes over.]
 * Lynn McGill: Who were you on the phone with?
 * Carrie Bendis: Homeland Security.
 * Lynn McGill: I gave you specific orders to have everyone's system mirrored to mine.
 * Carrie Bendis: I've been doing that.
 * Lynn McGill: But you're not finished, yet somehow you have time to chat with Homeland Security.
 * Carrie Bendis: They needed us to give them updated codesets. It'll just take another minute.
 * Lynn McGill: No, it won't. Stiles, finish her task. Carrie, you're done.
 * Carrie Bendis: What do you mean, "done"?
 * Lynn McGill: Fired! You don't work here anymore.
 * Edgar Stiles: Mr. McGill, it's not her fault. She's just—
 * Lynn McGill: Edgar, one more word out of you, you walk out with her. What's it gonna be?

 * [Still on the warpath, Lynn finds Chloe assisting Audrey in the server room.]
 * Lynn McGill: Chloe! Wat are you doing in here?
 * Audrey: I asked her to help me.
 * Lynn McGill: She doesn't work for you, Ms. Raines. She works for me.
 * Audrey: But I don't, and DoD has assignment priority over CTU.
 * Lynn McGill: We're in the middle of a real-time investigation, and we're understaffed. Chloe is a department head. You can't just take her away from me.
 * Audrey: I'm not taking her away from you. We needed a system patch on the server, and Chloe's the only one who can fix it!
 * Lynn McGill: Well, then you come to me, and you ask me. Everything in this office runs through me!
 * Audrey: Lynn, we are all trying to do the same thing! Can you please just get pass this?
 * Lynn McGill: Yeah, I'm past it. I want Chloe back.
 * Chloe: Okay. I'm finished here. Sorry, Mr. McGill — it won't happen again.

7:00pm - 8:00pm [5.13]

 * [On the phone as he runs to Medical, Jack tells Tony not to kill Christopher Henderson.]
 * Jack: You don't want to do this! It's not gonna bring back Michelle!
 * Tony: No. But I'll feel better.
 * Jack: Trust me, you won't!
 * Tony: You're probably right. I'll let you know.

 * Tony: She's gone, Jack.

8:00pm - 9:00pm [5.14]

 * Théo: I'm here by permission of your government, you can't touch me.
 * Jack: Right, we'll see about that!

 * Jack: Théo, it's Jack. I'm sorry.
 * Théo: We had a deal.
 * Jack: When this is all over I promise you I will help you rebuild your investigation. I give you my word.
 * Théo: I had your word, now I know what it's worth.

9:00pm - 10:00pm [5.15]

 * [Jack pulls a gun on Collette Stenger after finding she framed Audrey at Henderson's advice.]
 * Jack: He's using you. He wanted you to get inside my head. And it worked. And now I'm… upset.

 * [After the shootout at the gas plant]
 * Jack: Curtis, the Sentox is already in the system. Who's in charge here?
 * [Sam the foreman raises his hand]
 * Jack: Listen to me. You have Sentox nerve gas running through your pipelines. Can you shut down the pumps?
 * Sam: By the time we power down, gas will be in the main tanks and it's out into the city.
 * Jack: I need the closest pipeline that feeds those tanks.
 * Sam: Just out the door, to your left. It'll have a red arrow on it.
 * Jack: [to Curtis] Get me C4 and a timer, get these people out of here.
 * Buchanan: Jack, what are you doing?
 * Jack: In order to deliver the Sentox it had to mix with natural gas. If we can ignite that gas before it leaves the plant, the Sentox will be incinerated. Bill, this is the last chance we've got to stop this threat.

 * [Jack has just been caught in an explosion and sees Bierko escaping]
 * Jack: Curtis, I've got a visual on Bierko!
 * Curtis: Jack, you don't have time before the main tanks explode.
 * Jack: Right now, he's our only connection to Henderson!

12:00am - 1:00 am [5.18]

 * [Arrested for helping Jack, Chloe insists that Jack did not kill David Palmer.]
 * Miles Papazian: He's a federal fugitive wanted for the murder of a former President. Which means you're going to jail, O'Brian. For a long time.

2:00am - 3:00am [5.20]

 * Miles Papazian: What's Bauer doing on Flight 520?
 * Buchanan: You have no idea what you're dealing with, you little ass-kisser.

4:00am - 5:00am [5.22]

 * [Bloodied and tied to a chair, Secret Service agent Aaron Pierce listens to Logan's attempt to bribe him to silence.]
 * Charles Logan: Are my terms acceptable?
 * Aaron Pierce: There is nothing you have said or done that is acceptable to me in the least. You're a traitor to this country and a disgrace to your office. And it's my duty to see that you're brought to justice for what you've done. Is there anything else… Charles?

6:00am - 7:00am [5.24]

 * [On Marine One, with President Logan in the back, Bauer pulls a gun on the other pilot.]
 * Jack: Captain. I can fly this thing if I have to, which leaves you with one of two choices. You either do what I say and you live, or you don't and you die for nothing. You understand me?

 * [A stony-faced, silent Jack holds Logan isolated on Marine One.]
 * Charles Logan: What are you trying to do, Jack? Whatever it is, you know you won't get away with it! Are you going to kill me? I suppose you want some sort of revenge. I understand that. Bad things happened. I didn't want them to happen. People who work for me, they-they-they went too far, they did things I thought I wanted them to do, but they were wrong! You have to understand, I have always acted in the country's best interest. But you're just trying to get even. Do you realize what effect this will have on the American people?! This day has been trying enough! And now the President is being attacked. If you want to do what's right, you will turn this thing around, and go back. Damn it, Bauer, say something!

 * [In the abandoned building, Jack sits down before a defiant Logan.]
 * Jack: A year and a half ago, I was warned that my life was in danger, by someone within the government. I was told the only way I could stay alive was to create the illusion that I was dead. I was forced to deceive people that I loved. My only daughter will never forgive me. As I see the depth of your corruption unfold, I have no doubt that you are that source of danger. David Palmer was a great man, and he was a great President! But he was also my friend. He tried to warn me about you and now he is dead. Other people tried to help me, and they are dead, too. So Mr. Logan, I hope you understand… I have absolutely nothing to lose. You are going to be held accountable for your part of everything that happened today. You are not going to be able to hide behind the Presidency — right here, right now, you are going to face justice! And make no mistake about this, this is personal. And if you think for a second that I am scared to put a bullet in your brain, you don't know me. I am going to ask you one last time. Who are your co-conspirators? You have until the count of three, or I will kill you.

 * [Charles follows Martha into the airfield hangar. In private, he slaps her and frisks her for a wire.]
 * Charles Logan: You said that I was a good liar? But I am nothing compared to you.

 * [Jack's kidnappers drag him through a dark enclosed space with hanging chains. Chinese operative Cheng Zhi appears.]
 * Cheng Zhi: You surely must be aware, Mr. Bauer, that China has a long memory. Only 18 months ago, you invaded our territory and killed our consul. Did you really think that we would forget? Hmm?
 * Jack: [gasping] I know how this works. I need to make one phone call. Please. Just one phone call.
 * [After a moment of silence, Jack spits at Cheng. The men drop him to the ground.]
 * Jack: Kill me. Just… kill me.
 * Cheng Zhi: Kill you? You're far too valuable to kill, Mr. Bauer.

6:00am - 7:00am [6.01]

 * Karen Hayes: If we don't stop these attacks, this country will never recover.

 * Jack: Audrey?
 * Bill Buchanan: Audrey doesn't know you're back.
 * Jack: My daughter?
 * Bill Buchanan: Kim doesn't know, either.
 * Jack: You keep it that way.

 * Buchanan: [to Jack] We're asking you to sacrifice yourself.

 * [President Wayne Palmer talks to Jack before he's handed over to Abu Fayed.]
 * Jack: I understand what's expected of me, Mr. President.

 * [Per Fayed's instructions, Buchanan and Curtis prepare to leave Jack chained to a water system grate.]
 * Buchanan: I don't know what to say, Jack.
 * Jack: Do you understand the difference between dying for something and dying for nothing? The only reason I fought so hard to stay alive in China was because I didn't want to die for nothing. Today, I can die for something. My way, my choice. To be honest with you, it'll be a relief.

 * [Buchanan is livid over Chloe's rogue attempt to track Jack, jeopardizing the deal.]
 * Buchanan: Don't think you're the only one mourning Jack; you're not.

 * Karen Hayes: There are people in this administration who are willing to tear up the Constitution in the name of National Security.

7:00am - 8:00am [6.02]

 * [As Omar begs through his pain, Jack pulls back from his brutal interrogation.]
 * Assad: Why'd you stop?
 * Jack: I can see it in his eyes. He's not going to tell us anything.
 * [Jack walks off, but Assad grabs a knife and resumes the torture.]
 * Assad: Where is Fayed?
 * Omar: I know where some of his men are going to be!
 * [Beat. Assad is alarmed at Jack's reluctance to head out after Fayed.]
 * Assad: My men are dead. I can find Fayed, but I cannot stop him by myself.
 * Jack: I don't know how to do this anymore.
 * Assad: You'll remember.

 * [Scott enters the Amar home to find a dead man and a wounded Ahmed, who pulls a gun on him.]
 * Scott: Ahmed. We're friends.
 * Ahmed Amar: What friends? You can't even pronounce my name. It's not Āh-mėd, it's Äck-mėd.

9:00am - 10:00am [6.04]

 * Chloe: You were right about Curtis and Assad. Curtis was in the army, just after desert storm. His squad was ambushed by Assad's people. They killed 5 of Curtis's men and took 2 more hostage. Curtis was badly wounded, he couldn't go after them. The next day a tape was sent to the local television station. Assad's lieutenant forced the men from Curtis's patrol to beg for their lives, and then he personally beheaded them both.
 * Jack: Oh my God.

 * Jack: Curtis, put down your weapon!
 * Curtis: I can't do that, Jack.
 * Jack: Curtis, by order of the President of the United States, PUT DOWN YOUR WEAPON!

 * Curtis: I can't let this animal live!

 * [Jack is violently ill after killing Curtis to save pardoned terrorist Assad.]
 * Jack: Tell the President I'm sorry, I can't do this any more.
 * Buchanan: The hell you can't!

 * [Ahmed directs Scott after receiving orders on the phone to kill him.]
 * Ahmed: Don't make this any harder than it already is. Kneel.

 * [Buchanan loudly reviews CTU's recent failures.]
 * Buchanan: We have to do better than we're doing, and we have to do it faster!

 * [Jack has been forced to shoot Curtis]
 * Bill Buchanan: Curtis didn't leave you any choice.
 * Jack Bauer: That's what I keep trying to tell myself.

10:00am - 11:00am [6.5]

 * Liddy: It's Liddy. You won't believe who just called here.
 * Graem Bauer: Who?
 * Liddy: Your brother Jack.
 * Graem Bauer: What are you talking about? Jack's rotting away in some Chinese prison.
 * Liddy: No, actually he's here in L.A.
 * Graem Bauer: How the hell did that happen?
 * Liddy: I don't know.
 * Graem Bauer What's he want?
 * Liddy He's looking for the old man.
 * Graem Bauer: Yeah? Why?
 * Liddy: He didn't say. But if I were you, I'd expect a call from Jack. Your name came up.
 * Graem Bauer: Damn it. We should have killed Jack when we had the chance instead of handing him over to the Chinese.
 * Liddy: We tried.
 * Graem Bauer: This isn't good. My brother has a way of digging things up that need to stay buried.

10:00pm - 11:00pm [6.17]

 * Wayne Palmer: If Jack Bauer says it's a dead end, then it's a dead end.

 * Jack Bauer: Damn it!

 * [Just before hanging Fayed, in reference to Fayed's brother, a terrorist Jack killed]
 * Jack: Say hello to your brother.

 * [ Mike Doyle sees the bodies of several guards dead on the floor, and Fayed strangled, hung from a chain]
 * Doyle: Damn, Jack.

1:00am - 2:00am [6.20]

 * James Heller: You're cursed, Jack. Everything you touch, one way or another, ends up dead.

8:00am - 9:00am [7.1]

 * Senator Mayer: Let the record show this is the third day of this Senate hearing investigating human rights violations by the recently disbanded Counter Terrorist Unit. Yesterday, when we adjourned, we were discussing brutality and torture by CTU agents in the course of their operations. Will the witness please state his name?
 * Jack Bauer: Jack Bauer.
 * Senator Mayer: Mr. Bauer, I don't see your counsel present. Is he or she not aware that we're about to start?
 * Jack Bauer: I have chosen not to retain counsel.
 * Senator Mayer: Mr. Bauer, I have to advise you that many of the questions that we're about to pose to you are of a legal nature and might result in answers that could incriminate you.
 * Jack Bauer: I understand that, Senator.
 * Senator Mayer: We can postpone your testimony until this afternoon if you'd like to bring in representation— something that I would strongly advise.
 * Jack Bauer: What is the first question, Senator?
 * Senator Mayer: [beat] All right, then. Let's begin. Mr. Bauer, who is Ibrahim Hadad?
 * Jack Bauer: That information is classified.
 * Senator Mayer: We represent the people of the United States, and we have declassified those files on their behalf. Now, I'm going to ask you one more time: Who is Ibrahim Hadad?
 * Jack Bauer: [beat] He was a member of a terrorist sleeper cell CTU had under surveillance in 2002.
 * Senator Mayer: And isn't it true that you detained Mr. Hadad without due process, and that you used extreme interrogation methods on him until he answered your questions?
 * Jack Bauer: Yes, sir.
 * Senator Mayer: Would you say that you broke procedure with this interrogation?
 * Jack Bauer: [beat] Probably.
 * Senator Mayer: Probably? Well, that's a... very cavalier answer. You don't seem to care about the implications here. [beat] Well, Mr. Bauer?
 * Jack Bauer: I'm sorry, Senator. I didn't hear a question.
 * Senator Mayer: All right, then. [sternly] Did you torture Mr. Hadad?
 * Jack Bauer: [beat] According to the definitions set forth by the Geneva Convention...yes, I did. Senator, why don't I save you some time. It's obvious that your agenda is to discredit CTU and generate a series of indictments.
 * Senator Mayer: My only agenda is to get to the truth.
 * Jack Bauer: I don't think it is, sir.
 * Senator Mayer: Excuse me?
 * Jack Bauer: Ibrahim Hadad had targeted a bus carrying 45 people, ten of which were children. The truth, Senator, is I stopped that attack from happening.
 * Senator Mayer: By torturing Mr. Hadad.
 * Jack Bauer: By doing what I deemed necessary to protect innocent lives.
 * Senator Mayer: So, basically, what you're saying, Mr. Bauer, is that the ends justify the means, and that you are above the law.
 * Jack Bauer: When I am activated, when I am brought into a situation, there is a reason. And that reason is to complete the objectives of my mission at all costs.
 * Senator Mayer: Even if it means breaking the law?
 * Jack Bauer: For a combat soldier, the difference between success and failure is your ability to adapt to your enemy. The people that I deal with— they don't care about your rules. All they care about is a result. My job is to stop them from accomplishing their objectives. I simply adapted. In answer to your question, am I above the law? No, sir. I am more than willing to be judged by the people you claim to represent. I will let them decide what price I should pay. But please do not sit there with that smug look on your face and expect me to regret the decisions that I have made. Because, sir, the truth is...I don't.

 * Sean Hillinger: You do know you could hire a $14-an-hour data-applications geek to do this work?
 * Renee Walker: I wouldn't advertise that.

9:00pm - 10:00pm [7.14]

 * Senator Mayer: This morning at the hearing you said you had no regrets, but what I saw was a man full of regret.
 * Jack: Of course I have regret, Senator. I regret losing my family. My wife was murdered because I was responsible for protecting David Palmer during the assassination attempt. My daughter can’t even look at me. Every day I regret looking into the eyes of men, women and children knowing that any moment their lives may be deemed expendable in an effort to protect the greater good. I regret every decision and mistake I might have made that resulted in the loss of an innocent life. But you know what I regret the most? That this world even needs people like me.
 * Senator Mayer: You think I’m naïve to think that we need to hold ourselves to a higher standard of conduct?
 * Jack: It doesn’t even matter what I think, Senator. You just need to understand that where I work things get a lot messier than where you work on the Hill.
 * Senator Mayer: What you’ve lost, Mr. Bauer, is tragic. What you’ve been through compelled to do in the name of saving innocent life is tragic. But sometimes we need to incur the most horrible losses in order to uphold the ideals that this country was founded on. How can we presume to lead the world unless we set an example?
 * Jack: You make it sound so simple.
 * Senator Mayer: Well, maybe it’s simpler than you think. Maybe all the things that you’ve seen and all the things that you’ve done have clouded your vision.

10:00pm - 11:00pm [7.15]

 * Tony: What the hell are you doing? Don't do it, Jack. Don't turn a surveillance job into a firefight; it'll be two against ten!
 * Jack: Two against nine.

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m [8.01]

 * Teri: Jack?
 * Jack: Oh. Sweetheart, we already talked about this, remember? You're supposed to call me Grandpa.
 * Teri: You don't look like a grandpa.
 * Jack: 'Couldn't agree with you more.

 * Arlo: [during an emergency briefing with Brian Hastings, Dana Walsh, and Cole Ortiz] Who's Jack Bauer?

2:00pm - 3:00pm [8.23]

 * Jack: (while holding Pres. Logan at gunpoint) Call President Suvarov and tell him you want to meet him where you are immediately after the press conference.
 * President Logan: And what am I supposed to tell him?
 * Jack: (smiling) Try the truth for once. Tell him that you have credible intelligence about a threat to his life.

3:00pm - 4:00pm [8.24]

 * [Last line of the series]
 * Chloe: Shut it down.

About

 * I loved ’24’… I loved the show, I loved doing the show. It was… it felt a little like Star Trek in some ways. The dialogue’s kind of timeless. It’s indistinct. It’s hard to describe. It’s almost a science fiction show, because time’s being compressed unnaturally. A lot of my time travel instincts were helpful in depicting events in ‘real time’ that were preposterous. CTU was kind of like the bridge of the Enterprise, man! People are sitting at consoles, talkin’ technobabble… really, we made that shit up. It was not based on anything. When Chloe’s doing the webcams and streetcams and doing triangulating this… it’s bullshit! None of this exists. We didn’t have a technical advisor. My favorite moments… I mean, I enjoyed bring back Tony Almeida, the Tony Almeida character. There’s a great line of dialogue I remember Manny and I did, where Jack says to Tony, “I’ll kill you again, and you’ll stay dead this time!”
 * Brannon Braga, “EXCLUSIVE: Brannon Braga Interview, Part II” by Adam Walker, TrekCore. (March 24, 2013).

 * Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles. He saved hundreds of thousands of lives, are you going to convict Jack Bauer? Say that criminal law is against him? 'You have the right to a jury trial?' Is any jury going to convict Jack Bauer? I don't think so."
 * Antonin Scalia citing the television program 24 to support torture. as quoted on Last Week Tonight (06-15-15); and "John Oliver and Helen Mirren Take the U.S. and ‘24’s’ Jack Bauer to Task Over Torture" by Marlow Stern, The Daily Beast, (06.15.15).

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Indian Railways

The Indian Railways is India's state-owned railways, operating since 1845.

Quotes

 * I feel assured, that in future ages the works of our English engineers on these ghats will take the place of their demigods, the Great Cave Temples of Western India, which have so long, to the simple inhabitants of these lands, been the type of superhuman strength, and of more than mortal constructive skill. Let us trust, Sir, that the blessing of God which has carried the work thus far may rest on the work, that it may be such a permanent monument to our rule as a thoughtful patriotic Englishman may wish to see raised by his nation, and as all who love India, whatever their race or creed, may rejoice to see completed, not merely uniting distant provinces in one bond of material prosperity, but knitting together distant peoples and races under our orderly and beneficent rule, and thereby advancing the cause of civilisation by means which may be blessed alike to India and to England.”
 * Sir Henry Bartle Frere, on the opening of the Bor Ghat Incline of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Khandala, 21st April, 1863

 * A single glance upon the map recalling to mind the vast extent of the empire we hold, the various classes and interests it includes, the wide distances which separate the several points at which hostile attack may at any time be expected; the perpetual risk of such hostility in quarters where it is least expected; the expenditure of time, of treasure and of life that are involved in even the ordinary routine of military movements over such a tract… will suffice to show how immeasurable are the political advantages to be derived from the system of internal communication, which would admit of full intelligence of every event being transmitted to the Government,… at a speed exceeding fivefold its present rate; and would enable the Government to bring the main bulk of its military strength to bring to bear on any given point in as many days as it would now require months, and to an extent which at present is physically impossible. The commercial and social advantages which India would derive from their establishment are, I believe, beyond all present calculation. Great tracts are teeming with produce which they cannot dispose of. Others are scantily bearing what they would carry in abundance, if only it could be conveyed whither it is needed. England is calling aloud for the cotton which India does already produce in some degree, and would produce sufficient in quality, and plentiful in quantity, if only there were provided the fitting means of conveyance to it from distant plains to the several ports adopted for its shipment. Every increase of facilities for trade has been attended… with an increased demand of European produce in the most distant markets of our Empire… ships of every part of the world crowd our ports in search of produce which we have or could obtain in the interior, but which at present we cannot possibly fetch to them, and new markets are opening to us on this side of the globe under circumstances which defy foresight of the wisest to estimate their probably value, or calculate their future extent… the first object must be, then, to lay down the great trunk lines, with a view to the broadest future ramification, and on a principle that shall ensure the most profitable permanent working of the lines generally, bearing upon the intercourse of India with Europe. It needs but little reflection on such facts to lead us to the conclusion that the establishment of a system of railways in India, judiciously selected and formed, would surely and rapidly give rise within this Empire to the same encouragement of enterprise, the same multiplication of produce, the same discovery of latent resource, and the same increase of national wealth, and to some similar progress of social improvement, that have marked the improved and extended communications in various kingdoms of the Western world.
 * Lord Dalhousie, Governor-General’s Minute on Indian Railways (216 mss pages) on 20 April, 1853

 * While it is gratifying to me to be thus able to state that the moral and social questions which are engaging attention in Europe have not been neglected in India during the last eight years, it is double gratifying to record, that these years have also witnessed the first introductions in the Indian Empire of the three great engines of social improvement, which the sagacity and science of recent times had previously given to Western nations — I mean Railways, uniform postage, and the Electric Telegraph.
 * Lord Dalhousie, Governor-General’s final minute to the Court of Directors, 28 February, 1856

 * It might have been supposed that the building of 30,000 miles of railways would have brought a measure of prosperity to India. But these railways were built not for India but for England; not for the benefit of the Hindu, but for the purposes of the British army and British trade.
 * Will Durant, The Case For India

 * They [third-class railway carriages] are discreditable-looking places where there is no order, no cleanliness but utter confusion and horrible din and noise. Passengers have no benches or not enough to sit on. They squat on dirty floors and eat dirty food. They are permitted to throw the leavings of their food and spit where they like, sit how they like and smoke everywhere. The closets attached to these places defy description. I have not the power adequately to describe them without committing a breach of the laws of decent speech. In neglecting the third class passengers, opportunity of giving a splendid education to millions in orderliness, sanitation, decent composite life and cultivation of simple and clean tastes is being lost. Instead of receiving an object lesson in these matters third class passengers have their sense of decency and cleanliness blunted during their travelling experience. Among the many suggestions that can be made for dealing with the evil here described, I would respectfully include this: let the people in high places, the Viceroy, the Commander-in-Chief, the Rajas, Maharajas, the Imperial Councillors and others, who generally travel in superior classes, without previous warning, go through the experiences now and then of third class travelling. We would then soon see a remarkable change in the conditions of third class travelling and the uncomplaining millions will get some return for the fares they pay under the expectation of being carried from place to place with ordinary creature comforts.
 * Mahatma Gandhi, Third Class in Indian Railways, September 1917. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Third_Class_in_Indian_Railways

 * Thailand has railways and the British never colonised the country,... In 1885, when the British invaded Burma, the Burmese king was already building railways and telegraphs. These are things Indians could have done themselves.
 * Amitav Ghosh, Interview with "The Week"

 * ...but even after Dalhousie had put his hand to the work, and the Company had responded to his efforts, it was the more general belief that railway communication in India would be rather a concern of Government, useful in the extreme for military purposes, than a popular institution supplying a national want. It was thought that Indolence, Avarice, and Superstition would keep the natives of the country from flocking to the Railway station. But with a keener appreciation of the inherent power of so demonstrable a benefit to make its own way, even against these moral obstructions, Dalhousie had full faith in the result. He was right. The people now learnt to estimate at its full worth the great truth that Time is Money; and having so learned, they were not to be deterred from profiting by it by any tenderness of respect for the feelings of their spiritual guides. That the fire-carriage on the iron road was a heavy blow to the Brahmanical Priesthood is not to be doubted.
 * Sir John Kaye, The History of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-8, Vol 1. 1863

 * The most powerful teacher was the Indian railway, which despite some gloomy prophecies, had attained immediate popularity and necessarily tended to break down the barriers of ages, to stimulate movement, and exchange of thought. In railway carriages Brahmans and Sudras, Muslims and Sikhs, peasants and townspeople sat side by side. As early even as 1867-8 the total number of railway passengers was 13,746,000, of whom 95% travelled third class. Reflection, observation, interest in the outside world were stimulated; journeys from villages to towns; emigration from India itself became more common; life and prosperity grew more secure; new impulses were given to commerce, to industry and to agriculture. It should not be forgotten that to English capital India owes the sinews of her railway development.
 * Sir Henry Lovett, The Cambridge History of India, Vol. VI, Ch. XIX, p.344 The Growth of Educational Policy 1858 - 1918.

 * "Though the initial proposal for building railways in India was mooted in 1844 by East Indian Railway and subsequently by GIPR the actual nod from rulers in Britain came many years later.  By 1840s the East India Company was fast losing its grip over control of India and many more agents had already started operating in India with governmental support. The dominant group was determined to hold on to remaining power of appointments in India as long as they could. The directors of East India company were more than properly cautious and British government consulted any matter relating to India with the group. The proposals were pushed aside in the beginning but by the time they realised and were eager to do business with the railway companies, the 1847-49 depression had hit England and it was very difficult to raise funds. It was at this juncture that the promoters insisted that the government must put the new railway companies in a position to guarantee the railway stockholders an annual return. The promoters were able to mobilise London merchants aspiring exports and imports to and from large Indian market and finally in 1849, East India Company  signed  contract and gave the railway companies better term than they had originally asked in 1844. The contract provided in essence that, private companies would raise the funds for the railways and manage their operations, while the Government of India would exercise high-level supervision of railway policy and guarantee the private companies against risk of loss"
 * Daniel Thorner's article in Railways in Modern India edited by Ian J. Kerr.
 * In the second half of the nineteenth century, railway fever had infected Russia, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. In India, the first lines connecting Bombay, Calcutta and Madras opened in the early 1850s. Ten years later, the sub-continent had a railway network of 2,500 miles, nearly 4,800 in the 1870s, and 16,000 miles in 1890. For Marx, the development of Indian railways was a powerful illustration of his vision of traditional and archaic social forms shattered by the advent of modern, conquering industries. ‘Indian society’, he wrote in 1853 in the New York Daily Tribune, ‘has no history at all, at least no known history.’ Its providential destiny was to be ruled and, from this point of view, the British Empire, as violent and brutal as it was, would undoubtedly have more fruitful consequences than its competitors, the Russian and the Ottoman empires. In India the British colonizers had two missions, ‘one destructive, the other regenerating: the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia.’ Steam had severed the sub-continent from ‘the prime law of its stagnation’ by connecting it with the advanced world. Very soon, he predicted, this joining with the West through ‘a combination of railways and steam-vessels’ would demolish the bases of Oriental despotism. Railroads were destroying the archaic social system of the country, which was grounded on the ‘self-sufficient inertia of the villages’. The article’s conclusion swept away any doubts: ‘The railway-system will therefore become, in India, truly the forerunner of modern industry.
 * Enzo Traverso, Revolution: An Intellectual History (2020)

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Category talk:People from Iraq

I'm not a person who knows much about geography, so this might sound like a stupid question, but is the Middle East classified as Asian? Zhaladshar 22:45, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Geronimo

Goyathlay (Mescalero-Chiricahua: Goyaałé [One Who Yawns]; 16 June 1829 – 17 February 1909) was a Chiricahua Apache leader; usually known as Geronimo.

Quotes

 * Once I moved about like the wind. Now I surrender to you and that is all.
 * Statement to General George Crook (25 March 1886), as quoted in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970) by Dee Brown

 * I will protect my people if I live. For myself I do not fear for I have the word of Usen. Who is the White Nantan to think he can pit his power against that of Usen?
 * On being informed that there were authorizations to kill him while he was a prisoner in San Antonio, prior to news of further instructions to transport him to Florida, as quoted in Geronimo and the End of the Apache Wars (1990), by Charles Leland Sonnichsen, p. 102; "Usen" is the Apache word for God, and "Nantan" their word for a leader, spokesman, or "chief".

Geronimo's Story of His Life (1907)

 * Geronimo's Story of His Life (1907) as told to S. M. Barrett in 1905 and 1906; republished as Geronimo: His own story, newly revised and edited (1996)

 * In the beginning the world was covered with darkness. There was no sun, no day. The perpetual night had no moon or stars. There were, however, all manner of beasts and birds. Among the beasts were many hideous, nameless monsters, as well as dragons, lions, tigers, wolves, foxes, beavers, rabbits, squirrels, rats, mice, and all manner of creeping things such as lizards and serpents. Mankind could not prosper under such conditions, for the beasts and serpents destroyed all human offspring. All creatures had the power of speech and were gifted with reason.

 * I cannot think we are useless or Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes of men and certainly had a righteous purpose in creating each.

 * I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.

 * I am thankful that the President of the United States has given me permission to tell my story. I hope that he and those in authority under him will read my story and judge whether my people have been rightly treated.

About

 * Within days of the assassination of Osama bin Laden, on May 2, 2011, it was revealed that the Navy SEAL team executing the mission had used the code name Geronimo for its target.' A May 4 report in the New York Daily News commented, "Along with the unseen pictures of Osama Bin Laden's corpse and questions about what Pakistan knew, intelligence officials' reasons for dubbing the Al Qaeda boss 'Geronimo' remain one of the biggest mysteries of the Black Ops mission." The choice of that code name was not a mystery to the military, which also uses the term "Indian Country" to designate enemy territory and identifies its killing machines and operations with such names as UH-1B/C Iroquois, OH-58D Kiowa, OV-1 Mohawk, OH-6 Cayuse, AH-64 Apache, S-58/H-34 Choctaw, UH-60 Black Hawk, Thunderbird, and Rolling Thunder. The last of these is the military name given to the relentless carpet-bombing of Vietnam peasants in the mid-1960s. There are many other current and recent examples of the persistence of the colonialist and imperialist sensibilities at the core of a military grounded in wars against the Indigenous nations and communities of North America.
 * Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (2014)

 * They held us in San Antonio … We had tents and blankets but no arms. We had food. But every minute we expected to be taken out and shot. Nobody said it aloud. Geronimo had been promised that he would not die by bullets (by Usen, the Apache God), but the rest had not.
 * Jasper Kanseah, a fellow captive, as quoted in Geronimo and the End of the Apache Wars (1990), by Charles Leland Sonnichsen, p. 101.

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Anson Chan

Anson Chan Fang On Sang (陳方安生) (born January 17, 1940) is formerly a prominent and long-standing head of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR)'s civil service before and after the territory's handover to the People's Republic of China from British colonial rule. She is the first woman and the first Chinese to hold the second-highest governmental position in Hong Kong.

Quotes

 * "I do not say what I do not mean. Neither can anyone force me to say what I don't wish to say."
 * Source:Anson Chan to Newsweek magazine in 1997.

 * "And 'speak truth unto power'? What does this mean? It means giving your best advice to superiors based on the best information available and objective analysis even when you know it may not be music to their ears."
 * Source: From Anson Chan's speech addressing to the Asia Society Hong Kong Center in April 2001.

 * "For the first ten years or so, you would always question whether the decisions were right or wrong, but you have to learn to put things behind you once a decision is made. You can't be wishy-washy about it."
 * Source: From Anson Chan's speech commenting on her handling the controversial 1986 child custody case on the eve of her retirement on April 27, 2001.

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John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire (born 3 June 1945) is a British-born naturalized American writer, journalist and commentator. He formerly wrote a column in National Review. He has also written for the New English Review. His columns cover a broad range of political and cultural topics, including immigration, China, history, mathematics and race.

Quotes

 * I have never read the Koran and at this point I most likely never shall. It looks really boring. I can’t offer an informed opinion about Islam, any more than 99.9 percent of other Americans can. I certainly don’t wish any harm to Muslims in general. Jolly good luck to them all. Hate? Not here. But it is surely obvious that if you let masses of Muslims settle in your non-Muslim country, you’ve gotten yourself some frictions and problems you didn’t have before. Why bring such troubles on yourself?
 * After The Atrocity In Nice, VDARE, July 16, 2016.

 * The real menace, the disease eating away at the heart of Western society, is white ethnomasochism: hatred of one’s own type, one’s own race, one’s own ancestors, one’s own parents, one’s own fellow citizens who do not share a bizarrely unreal and idealistic view of human nature.
 * After The Atrocity In Nice, VDARE, July 16, 2016.

 * Starting with the Minnesota twin study thirty-five years ago, and now with a mountain of data from twin, sibling, and adoption studies, we know that pretty much anything you can quantify about human personality, behavior, and intelligence is to some degree heritable, average-average at around the fifty percent level but sometimes much higher. We now in fact have a busy and exciting field of study called “behavioral genetics.” Given that all these traits are heritable, it follows from the ordinary laws of biology that different races will exhibit different statistical profiles on them. That’s not astonishing, mysterious, or horrible: It’s just first-floor-level science.
 * John Derbyshire On Why Race Realism Makes More Sense Than “Magic Dirt” Theory, VDARE, November 1, 2015.

 * Universal-suffrage democracy may have been a good idea 120 years ago, when most adults did productive work into their sixties, then died. In today’s top-heavy welfare states, it just empowers tax-eaters to loot the national wealth.
 * Two Bad Answers, Taki's Magazine, June 5, 2014.

 * Our universities, after a few aberrant decades of experimenting with open inquiry and the advance of knowledge, have reverted to their medieval purpose (the purpose that Chinese higher education always had): to train an intellectual elite for the propagation and defense of the state ideology. Then it was Christianity (in China, Confucianism); now it is utopian egalitarianism—“political correctness,” the Narrative.
 * Two Bad Answers, Taki's Magazine, June 5, 2014.

 * Historians of the future will amuse themselves by coming up with theories to explain why European civilization, at the height of its powers, rich with unparalleled achievements in science, music, art, literature, mathematics, and technology, gave up its lands and its treasures to people for whom those achievements were mere hated tokens of oppression or the impious and superfluous productions of infidels.
 * Multiculturalism: When Will the Sleeper Wake?, Taki's Magazine, March 29, 2012.

 * I keep trying to resist the thought, but the thought keeps pushing its way back in: The Western world has sunk into madness. There are no solutions to anything. The talk of our politicians is the babbling of fools, but we keep electing them anyway. We are collectively insane.
 * Succouring the Poor, National Review, February 6, 2012.

 * These post-Soviet rulers of Russia are certainly very wicked people. They have sucked their country’s precious natural resources out of the ground, sold them on world markets, and pocketed the proceeds, leaving Ivan and Katya to trudge through freezing mud for a lousy wage or starvation-level pension. Are they, though, more wicked than the rulers of the Anglosphere, who have swamped their own people with millions of hesperophobic welfare-dependent foreigners from regions of low mean IQ and high mean criminality — mullahs, muggers, and moochers — just for the satisfaction of humiliating their own domestic enemies? Will they, in the long run, have done more to destroy their nation, than our rulers have done to destroy ours? History will tell.
 * Down, But Still Russian, Taki's Magazine, December 8, 2011.

 * Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.
 * Wishing I’d Played the Ponies, Taki's Magazine, June 16, 2011.

 * The Chinese Communist Party has it figured out. After 62 years of blunders, horrors, and reversals, they have pulled off a miracle of statecraft, a Staatskunst Wunder. With their 77 million members distributed in hundreds of thousands of cells, they have turned Lenin’s crude power cult into a robust, adaptable apparatus of total control that, like God in the universe, is everywhere present but nowhere visible—or is visible only, as with that photograph, in a form so bland the eye turns away in search of something recognizably human.
 * China's Never-Ending Party, Taki's Magazine, May 26, 2011.

 * The arc of US development this past hundred years once again teaches us history's hardest lesson: A nation can survive anything except success. Mid-20th-century America's stupendous success engendered the softness, idleness, and lack of seriousness that was perceptible to me in 1975 — though the nation I came from was only a decade or so behind.
 * Girly Nation, Taki's Magazine, December 29, 2010.

 * Life's great law is that poverty and hardship build character; prosperity and security destroy it. This isn't anybody's fault; it's merely a natural law, like gravity. Nor is it anything particular to America. Any other nation afflicted with such colossal success will fall into decadence as we are doing. History offers many examples.
 * Girly Nation, Taki's Magazine, December 29, 2010.

 * A nation that does not have the tribal bonding you get with a common culture — a nation that has actually, officially discarded the idea of a common culture as “exclusionary” — is more fragile than most. What happened to the USSR could happen to us, perhaps is happening already by slow degrees. We conservatives, who stand in dissident opposition to the reigning dogmas of liberalism and multiculturalism, as much braver souls like Andrei Amalrik stood in dissident opposition to the Marxist-Leninist dogmas of the USSR — we need to keep speaking these simple truths out loud.
 * Will the United States Survive Until 2022?, New English Review, January 2007.

 * The USA — and, to a much worse degree, Western Europe and Japan — have low birth rates, below replacement level. Poorer countries in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East also have dropping birth rates; but their birth rates have only just started to drop, while ours have been falling for decades. So we are, or soon shall be, running out of people; they have people to spare. The easy and obvious answer, if we want to keep our populations stable, is to let people from those poorer, more philoprogenitive countries, come and live in ours. Hence the mass immigration that has been a feature of the advanced world — except for Japan — this past few decades. The trouble is, these policies are premised on the Multicultural Theorem; i.e. that masses of people of different races, from different places, practicing different folkways and religions, carrying various kinds of intercultural and interracial grievances, can live together in one country in reasonable harmony. Unfortunately no-one has bothered to prove the Multicultural Theorem; and the evidence is mounting that it may actually turn out to be false.
 * Will the United States Survive Until 2022?, New English Review, January 2007.

 * Most people are not intellectuals — a fact that intellectuals have terrible trouble coming to terms with.
 * The Wood Has Been Made Into a Boat, National Review, January 23, 2006.

 * Stereotypes are, in fact, merely one aspect of the mind’s ability to make generalizations, without which science and mathematics, not to mention much of everyday life, would be impossible.
 * Derb Quotes, National Review, November 20, 2003.

 * American society is increasingly a conspiracy of the smart against the dumb.
 * Derb Quotes, National Review, November 20, 2003.

 * Marriage is one of those things that works best when people don’t think about it too much.
 * Derb Quotes, National Review, November 20, 2003.

 * The fact is that political stupidity is a special kind of stupidity, not well correlated with intelligence, or with other varieties of stupidity.
 * Derb Quotes, National Review, November 20, 2003.

 * Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.
 * Derb Quotes, National Review, November 20, 2003.

 * This is life. People stumble and grope blindly hither and thither, wondering if they did the right thing, occasionally knocking something over and hoping no-one noticed, striving for illusory goals, addled with guilt and insecurity.
 * Derb Quotes, National Review, November 20, 2003.

 * Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, “You know math, huh? Tell me something I’ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I can only reply, “The words you just uttered do not make sense. That was not a mathematical sentence. You spoke of ‘infinity’ as if it were a number. It’s not. You may as well ask, 'What is truth divided by beauty?’ I have no clue. I only know how to divide numbers. ‘Infinity,’ ‘truth,’ ‘beauty’—those are not numbers.”
 * Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (2003)

 * Pop culture is filth. It is now completely degenerate. Why do you never hear anyone humming a current pop song any more? Because none of them is hummable, or even worth bothering to remember. What is the main topic on TV sitcoms and "dramedies"? You know what. Why do you stand in the aisle in Blockbuster muttering to yourself: "There isn't a single damn movie in here I want to watch"? Because Hollywood produces nothing but crap, crap, crap.
 * Unpleasant Truths: A conservative view of the world today, National Review, August 2, 2002.

We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism (2009)

 * Western culture is in its twilight; there is a dark age ahead; and while college-humanities fads and "secular-progressive values" have certainly done much damage, they are symptoms, not causes - fragments of junk sucked into a vacuum. The fundamental reason why so much of our culture is shit - either literally, like Signor Manzoni's masterwork, or figuratively - is exhaustion, cultural exhaustion.

 * All good ideas are of their time... and are liable to turn from blessings into blights if persisted in too long. The justifiable right of workers to organize in protection of their interests turned at last into featherbedding, the Teamster rackets, auto companies made uncompetitive by extravagant beneﬁts agreements, and government-worker unions voting themselves ever-bigger shares of the public fisc. The campaign for full civil rights and racial justice turned into affirmative action, race quotas, grievance lawsuits, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and everlasting racial rancor.

 * Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little People, it is with disdain and contempt.

 * The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias.

 * The ordinary modes of human thinking are magical, religious, social, and personal. We want our wishes to come true; we want the universe to care about us; we want the approval of those around us; we want to get even with that s.o.b. who insulted us at the last tribal council. For most people, wanting to know the cold truth about the world is way, way down the list.

 * Once this was a nation of farmers, builders, inventors, creators, explorers, and thinkers. Now we are a nation of bubblehead academic poseurs, race-guilt hucksters, and keening middle-class "victims" of imaginary wrongs.

 * The remarkable thing about the Diversity cult is that all the circumstances of the actual human world refute its tenets, wherever we look. I don't think it is an exaggeration to say that there has never been an ideology so heartily and jealously embraced by all the main institutions of a society, that was at the same time so obviously at odds with the evidence of our senses. It is as if the entire Western world had committed itself to the belief that human beings can fly by flapping their arms.

 * By holding firmly to a pessimistic, realistic view of what is and is not possible in a society of different ethnicities, we might have maintained the principles of a free republic, and saved ourselves much trouble and expense. In the world at large, diversity causes nothing but problems.

 * The happy talkers tell us that diversity is a boon, making our society stronger and better. Our own lying eyes tell us that it is the source of continual trouble; not merely the solitary "hunkering down" that Robert Putnam discovered, but rancor, disorder, litigation, and violence.

 * After the many hundreds of generations that Australian, East Asian, African, European and indigenous American populations of Homo sapians developed in isolation from each other, in different environments, there ought to be divergence aplenty, though nowhere near to speciation. And so there is. That is why a roomful of Australian aborigines looks nothing like a roomful of Hungarians, and neither looks anything like a roomful of Quechua-speaking South American indigenes.

 * Human beings are religious. We don't all have to be, any more than we all have to be musical, or athletic, or humorous; but as long as there are human beings, there will be religion to offer warmth to those who can believe its stories and its metaphysics, while those who can't will be left with a paler, colder flame.

 * All religions look wacky to an unbeliever, even to one who does not, like the celebrity atheists, consider religion a menace. Islam, in its present frustrated state, is doing more harm than most, but that's historically contingent.

 * Unbelievers may think - all right, we do think - Christianity is only slightly less nutty than Islam; but Christianity is ours. We've got along with it for several centuries; and the relationship between Western unbelievers and Western Christians, if not always polite, is stable and comfortable. Can we fit Islam in like that?

 * We are a rugged species, up for anything the universe can throw at us; and as the great gloominaries knew, we will be immeasurably better prepared for nasty surprises if we approach the universe realistically - pessimistically - than if we continue to peer out at our surroundings through a distorting, rose-colored prism of wish-fulfillment fantasy.

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And thank you for your edit on Benjamin Disraeli! --Aphaia 17:13, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

QOTD suggestions link
Thanks for the notice about the QOTD suggestions link on the main page. I've updated the link. Sorry about the confusion; we're still working out how the new suggestion system works. — Jeff Q (talk) 1 July 2005 08:19 (UTC)

People pages
Hi! I was wondering if you would mind creating pages for those people quotes of whom you nominate for QotD. Creating people pages is quite easy and I feel much better when quotes have links to pages here. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 12:52, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry, most of them do have pages on wikiquote but I forgot to put in the links. It's corrected now, thanks for reminding me AllanHainey 15:59, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Hello again. If you look at the standard person page boilerplate, there are quite a few things which are standard in a person page here in wikiquote — introductions, categories, standard sections, etc. It would be helpful if you used that template when creating new people pages. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 13:36, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
 * OK, I don't have time today but will fix them on Monday. AllanHainey 13:48, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

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Brazil

 * This article is about the South American country. For the 1985 film, see Brazil (film)''.

Brazil is the largest country in South America, as well as the largest Portuguese-speaking country in the world.

A

 * The persistence into the twentieth century of a specific institutional pattern inimical to growth in Mexico and Latin America is well illustrated by the fact that, just as in the nineteenth century, the pattern generated economic stagnation and political instability, civil wars and coups, as groups struggled for the benefits of power. Díaz finally lost power to revolutionary forces in 1910. The Mexican Revolution was followed by others in Bolivia in 1952, Cuba in 1959, and Nicaragua in 1979. Meanwhile, sustained civil wars raged in Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Peru. Expropriation or the threat of expropriation of assets continued apace, with mass agrarian reforms (or attempted reforms) in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Peru, and Venezuela. Revolutions, expropriations, and political instability came along with military governments and various types of dictatorships. Though there was also a gradual drift toward greater political rights, it was only in the 1990s that most Latin American countries became democracies, and even then they remain mired in instability.
 * Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Poverty, and Prosperity (2012)

B

 * We must not forget that the world needs to be fed. France and Germany, for example, use more than 50% of their territories for agriculture, while Brazil only uses 8% of its land for food production. 61% of our territory is preserved! Our policy is zero tolerance for crime, including environmental crimes. I reiterate that any initiative to help or support the preservation of the Amazon rainforest, or other biomes, must be treated in full respect of Brazilian sovereignty. We also reject attempts to instrumentalize environmental issues or indigenous policy in favor of foreign political and economic interests, especially those disguised as good intentions. We are ready to harness our full potential sustainably through partnerships and added value.
 * Jair Bolsonaro, Speech at the 74th UN General Assembly. Statement by Mr. Jair Messias Bolsonaro, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil. United Nations PaperSmart (24 September 2019).
 * Brazil is safer and more welcoming today. We have just extended visa exemptions to countries such as the United States, Japan, Australia and Canada, and we are currently considering the adoption of similar measures for China and India, among others. With more safety and convenience, we want everyone to be able to visit Brazil, and particularly our Amazon rainforest, with all its vastness and natural beauty. The Amazon is not being destroyed nor consumed by fire, as the media is falsely portraying. Each one of you may check what I am saying. Do not hesitate to visit Brazil. It is way different than the country portrayed in many newspapers and television shows.
 * Jair Bolsonaro, Speech at the 74th UN General Assembly. Statement by Mr. Jair Messias Bolsonaro, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil. United Nations PaperSmart (24 September 2019).

C

 * I've been impressed with the greatness of Brazil. I've seen the compatibility between your own people and ours—the origins of your country; the struggle for freedom against colonial rule; the courage, the tenacity, the dedication that was required in our country and yours to explore new frontiers, to carve out for ourselves a better life, a greater life, and a position of leadership throughout the whole world.
 * Jimmy Carter; Brasilia, Brazil Remarks Before the Brazilian Congress Online, The American Presidency Project; 30 March 1978

 * Inflation is bad for growth—this has become one of the most widely accepted economic nostrums of our age. But see how you feel about it after digesting the following piece of information. During the 1960s and the 1970s, Brazil's average inflation rate was 42% a year. Despite this, Brazil was one of the fastest growing economies in the world for those two decades—its per capita income grew at 4.5% a year during this period. In contrast, between 1996 and 2005, during which time Brazil embraced the neo-liberal orthodoxy, especially in relation to macroeconomic policy, its inflation rate averaged a much lower 7.1% a year. But during this period, per capita income in Brazil grew at only 1.3% a year. If you are not entirely persuaded by the Brazilian case—understandable, given that hyperinflation went side by side with low growth in the 1980s and the early 1990s—how about this? During its 'miracle' years, when its economy was growing at 7% a year in per capita terms, Korea had inflation rates close to 20%-17.4% in the 1960s and 19.8% in the 1970s. These were rates higher than those found in several Latin American countries ... Are you still convinced that inflation is incompatible with economic success?
 * Ha-Joon Chang, Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008), Ch. 7: 'Mission impossible?; Can financial prudence go too far?', There is inflation and there is inflation, p. 149

 * Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means: "you don't have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality."
 * Paulo Coelho, "Paulo Coelho: 'Today we are proud of being Brazilians'". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. August 31, 2010.

 * “I want to find out who is supplying items to a government agency. Is there an easy way to find out?” The librarian folded his handkerchief into a square on his palm before he answered. “This is Brazil. There is no easy way to find out anything.”
 * Imraan Coovadia, A Spy in Time (2018), ISBN 978-1947856561, p. 154

D

 * An utter humiliation for Brazil, just got worse! ... A devastated Brazil; a devastated nation.
 * Ian Darke, Brazil v. Germany (8 July 2014), 2014 FIFA World Cup.

 * I've been actually visiting Brazil frequently for the last period, and Brazil is now on the cusp of some major breakthroughs with respect to racism. I think that they have the opportunity to choose whether to follow the example of the US and South Africa
 * Angela Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement (2015)

 * Brazil, an intense dream. A vivid ray of love and hope descends to earth.
 * Osório Duque-Estrada, "Brazilian National Anthem" (1909)

 * Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land.
 * Lawrence Durrell, Letter to Henry Miller, December 1948. In Durrell-Miller Letters, 1935-1980, p. 227.

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 * What is black in the United States is not what's black in Brazil.
 * Alan Goodman, as quoted in "Episode One: The Difference Between Us" (2003), Race: The Power of an Illusion, California Newsreel

 * In Brazil we have a saying, 'You're married, but you're not dead'.
 * Izabel Goulart, to Conan O'Brien (February 2007) on Late Night with Conan O'Brien (28 February 2007)

 * [T]he Brazilian mindset was forged by slavery above any other thing. Slavery existed, unchallenged, for a long time (about three or four centuries, depending on place) and laid deep roots. These roots are everywhere... So, considering all these impacting aspects, we can say, quite safely, that Brazil is still struggling to levae behing the heavy burden of slavery, that still hinders its progress towards the future.
 * Jose Geraldo Gouvea, "Did Brazil get over slavery?" (March 2015), Quora

 * It is a subject for congratulation that the great Empire of Brazil has taken the initiatory step toward the abolition of slavery. Our relations with that Empire, always cordial, will naturally be made more so by this act. It is not too much to hope that the Government of Brazil may hereafter find it for its interest, as well as intrinsically right, to advance toward entire emancipation more rapidly than the present act contemplates.
 * Ulysses S. Grant, State of the Union Address (4 December 1871)

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 * We are also seeing a diffusion of power and competition at the nation state level. This competition comes not just from Russia and China, but also from emerging countries like Brazil, India, Indonesia, and the other ASEAN states. These states are also beginning to organize themselves into structures outside of and somewhat in competition.
 * Stephen J. Hadley, "America's Role In The World" (30 October 2014), Lowy Institute

 * All of Brazil is crying right now.
 * Billy Haisley, "All of Brazil is Crying Right Now" (8 July 2014), Screamer

 * Every fan in Brazil is crying right now.
 * Bill Hanstock, "Every Fan in Brazil is Crying Right Now" (8 July 2014), SBNation

 * Max Payne: This place is great. Really comfortable. I'm just going to get settled in. Time to move on. Get on with my life. Yes, absolutely. Now , like I said, it was a long time ago. Let it go. Seriously. Definitely more my style than Panama or Hoboken, I guess. No. If I'm honest, I just got kind of bored of boozing.
 * Max Payne 3 (2012), written by Dan Houser

I

 * The draft law [whereby is "any alteration, edition, suppression, addition, or adaptation to the texts of the Holy Bible" in the State of Pernambuco prohibited] is obviously unconstitutional, as it would ask secular judges to determine what books in the Bible are part of the canon and what translation is correct or otherwise. However, the very fact that a leading state legislator has proposed it confirms that religious intolerance is a serious problem in Brazil.
 * Massimo Introvigne, "Brazil: Law Introduced in Pernambuco Would Forbid “Altering” the Bible", Bitter Winter (June 10, 2023)

J

 * Like many commodity dependent emerging markets, Brazil has imploded both economically and investment-wise over the past couple of years. I warned investors to bail out of the country back in September of 2012 as it was evident a huge bubble had formed. Things have become worse than I could have imagined and, given the state of things down south, it is hard to imagine things improving in 2016. The only question investors should be asking is, do the problems in Brazil and other emerging markets have the potential to cause problems here in 2016?
 * Bret Jensen, "Bye, Bye Brazil?" (22 December 2015), Seeking Alpha

 * Brazil, I know is the possessor of a fine tradition of political freedom and stability, and of social and religious tolerance. It also has a rich cultural heritage, great natural resources, an already very substantial industrial base and internal market, and a highly talented people. The remarkable progress made in the last thirty years, with the creation in Brazil of the greatest industrial center in Latin America, provides solid ground for confidence that all the elements exist for an even more brilliant early future.
 * Lyndon B. Johnson; Exchange of Letters With President Goulart of Brazil Online, The American Presidency Project; 23 December 1963

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 * Violence has long been a fact of life in Brazil. Amnesty International reports that in 2004 there were 663 killings by officers in Sao Paulo state, and 983 in Rio de Janeiro State.
 * Steve Kingstone, "Brazilian's death was 'third-world error'" (25 July 2005), BBC News, United Kingdom: British Broadcasting Corporation

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 * Throughout my my career – which began in 1990 right when the press became unionized – the themes have generally been social-political issues: police brutality, state terrorism, corruption, political maneuvers…And not just in Brazil, the themes I tackle looking abroad include war, armed conflicts, and torture. I’ve also done a lot about the Brazilian military dictatorship.
 * Interview with Brasilwire (2017)

 * Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us.
 * Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 'Dialogue with the President of Brazil on Global Governance' at the 'Annual Meeting 2003' of the World Economic Forum, January 26, 2003.

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 * Here in Brazil it's common for the police to act violently, especially against poor and black people.
 * Maria Luisa Mendonca, as quoted in "Brazilian's death was 'third-world error'" (25 July 2005), by Steve Kingstone, BBC News, United Kingdom: British Broadcasting Corporation

 * What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility and serenity of their climate; I rather attribute it to the tranquility and serenity of their souls, which are free from all passion, thought, or any absorbing and unpleasant labors. Those people spend their lives in an admirable simplicity and ignorance, without letters, without law, without king, without any manner of religion.
 * Michel de Montaigne, The Essays Of Montaigne, Volume I, p. 486.

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 * Slavery will remain for a long time as the chief national characteristic of Brazil. It spread throughout our vast lonely lands a huge softness [of mores]; its contact was the first to shape the virgin nature of the country, and it was the one recorded there. It [slavery] peopled it [Brazil] like a living natural religion, with its myths, legends and spells.
 * Joaquim Nabuco, as quoted in "Did Brazil get over slavery?" (March 2015), by Jose Geraldo Gouvea, Quora

 * One of the biggest threats to biodiversity is the continued loss of virgin forests. Every year, an area of forest corresponding to the size of Hungary disappears. However, the rate of deforestation has fallen by 40 per cent since the 1990s, according to the FAO. Deforestation has ceased in rich countries. In the United States and Europe forested areas are increasing. In China and India, too, forests are now growing, suggesting that rising populations and economies do not have to cause overexploitation. Were it not for deforestation in seven countries – Brazil, Paraguay, Angola, Congo, Tanzania, Indonesia and Myanmar – the world’s forests would have grown in the 2010s. That is not much of a comfort, given the unique natural values lost with those forests. But it shows that the notion that we are experiencing a relentless global deforestation does not hold.
 * Johan Norberg, The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World (2023)

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 * By "Mongrel Complex" I mean the inferiority in which Brazilians put themselves, voluntarily, in comparison to the rest of the world. Brazilians are the reverse Narcissus, who spit in their own image. Here is the truth: we can't find personal or historical pretexts for self-esteem.
 * Nelson Rodrigues, as quoted in "O Complexo de Inferioridade do Brasileiro" (2007), by Humberto Mariotti, Instituto de Pesquisa BSP

 * Writing in the 1950s, the playwright Nelson Rodrigues saw his countrymen as afflicted with a sense of inferiority, and he coined a phrase that Brazilians now use to describe it: "the mongrel complex". Brazil has always aspired to be taken seriously as a world power by the heavyweights, and so it pains Brazilians that world leaders could confuse their country with Bolivia, as Ronald Reagan once did, or dismiss a nation so large – it has 180 million people – as "not a serious country", as Charles de Gaulle did.
 * Larry Rohter, "If Brazil Wants to Scare the World, It's Succeeding" (16 November 2007), The New York Times

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 * Nobody would want to go in for a partnership with Brazil.
 * Guy Scott, interview with David Smith (2013)

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 * The history of Brazil in many respects parallels that of the United States. Both are nations which have carved civilizations out of the wilderness. Both have been endowed with great natural resources and both have been developed by people whose dominant motive is freedom.
 * Harry S. Truman; Remarks to the National Congress of Brazil, The American Presidency Project; 5 September 1947

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 * Whereas our old world is more than ever ruled by the insane attempt to breed people racially pure, like race-horses and dogs, the Brazilian nation for centuries has been built upon the principle of a free and unsuppressed miscegenation… It is moving to see children of all colours – chocolate, milk, and coffee – come out of their schools arm-in-arm… There is no colour-bar, no segregation, no arrogant classification… for who here would boast of absolute racial purity?
 * Stefan Zweig, Brazil: Land of the Future (1941), p. 8. As quoted in "Zweig: The writer who dreamed of a world without borders", BBC, 22nd February 2017.

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