A Few Good Men Quotes

Kaffee: [in Barnes' Humvee] Whoa. Hold it. We gotta take a boat?
Barnes: Yes, sir. To get to the other side of the bay.
Kaffee: Nobody said anything about a boat.
Barnes: Is there a problem, sir?
Kaffee: No, no problem. I'm just not that crazy about boats, that's all.

Galloway: Jesus Christ, Kaffee, you're in the Navy for crying out loud.
Kaffee: Nobody likes her very much.
Barnes: Yes, sir!

Barnes: [in Barnes'humvee] I've got some camouflage jackets in the Jeep, sirs, I suggest you both put them on.
Kaffee: Camouflage jackets?
Barnes: Yes sir, we'll be riding pretty close to the fence line. The Cubans see an officer wearing white, they think it might be someone they'd wanna take a shot at.

Kaffee: [sarcastically] Good call, Sam.

Capt. Ross: Your honor, it's become obvious that Lt. Kaffee's intention this afternoon are to smear a high ranking Marine officer in the desperate hope that the mere appearance of impropriety will win him points with the court members. Now, it is my recommendation, sir, that Lt. Kaffee be reprimanded for his conduct and that this witness be excused with the court's deepest

apologies.
Judge Randolph: [from the judge's bench] Overruled.
Capt. Ross: Your honor...
Judge Randolph: [from the judge's bench] Your objection is noted.

Col. Jessup: [in Jessup's office] Hmmmm... transfer Santiago. Yes, I'm sure you're right. I'm sure that's the thing to do. Wait, I've got a better idea. Let's transfer the whole squad off the base. Let's... On second thought, Windward! Let's transfer the whole Windward Division off the base. John, go on out there and get those boys down off the fence, they're packing their bags.

Tom!
Tom: Yes, sir!
Col. Jessup: Get me the President on the phone. We're surrendering our position in Cuba!
Tom: Yes, sir.
Col. Jessup: Wait a minute, Tom, don't get the President just yet. Maybe we should consider this for a second. Dismissed, Tom. Maybe, and I'm just spit balling here, maybe, we have

a responsibility as officers to traing Santiago. Maybe we as officers have a responsibility to this country to see to that the men and women charged with its security are trained professionals. Yes, I'm certain that I read that somewhere once. And now I'm thinking,Col. Markinson, that your suggestion of transferring Santiago, while expeditious and certainly painless, might not be, in a matter of

speaking, the American way. Santiago stays where he is. We're gonna train the lad!

Col. Jessup: [in Jessup's office after Kendrick was asked to leave] Matthew, sit down, please.
[Lt. Col. Markinson sits]
Col. Jessup: What do you think of Kendrick?
Lt. Col. Matthew Andrew Markinson: Nathan, I don't think that my opinion of Kendrick has any...
Col. Jessup: I think he's kind of a weasel,

myself. But he's an awfully good officer, and in the end we see eye to eye on the best way to run a Marine Corps unit. We're in the business of saving lives, Matthew. That's a responsibility we have to take pretty seriously. And I believe that taking a Marine who's not quite up to the job and shipping him off to another assignment, puts lives in danger.
[Markinson begins to stand]

Col. Jessup: Matthew, siddown.
Lt. Col. Matthew Andrew Markinson: [sits]
Col. Jessup: We go back a while. We went to the Academy together, we were commissioned together, we did our tours in Vietnam together. But I've been promoted up through the chain of command with greater speed and success than you have. Now if that's a source of

tension or embarrassment for you, well, I don't give a shit. We're in the business of saving lives, Lieutenant Colonel Markinson. Don't ever question my orders in front of another officer.

Kaffee: [in an empty courtroom after the trial has been adjourned for the day] We'll work out of my apartment 7 o'clock. Jo, before you come over tonight, pick up a carton of legal pads half a dozen boxes red and black pens half a dozen boxes. Sam get a couple desk lamps, I need you to start on preliminary medical profile, and Jo, we need all the proficiency and conduct reports on

Dawson, Downey and Santiago.

Kaffee: [in an interogation room] Did you assault Santiago with the intent of killing him?
Dawson: No, sir.
Kaffee: What was your intent?
Dawson: To train him, sir.
Kaffee: To train him to do what?
Dawson: To train him to think of the unit before himself. To

respect the code.
Kaffee: What's the code?
Dawson: Unit. Corps. God. Country.
Lt. Weinberg: I beg your pardon?
Dawson: [speaking slower] Unit. Corps. God. Country. Sir.
Kaffee: The government of the United States wants to charge you two with murder. And you want me to go to the

prosecutor with unit, corps, God, country?
Dawson: That's our code, sir.
Kaffee, Lt. Weinberg: It's a code.
Kaffee: [while packing up their belongings] We'll be back. You guys need anything? Books, papers, cigarettes, ham sandwich?
Dawson: Sir, no thank you, sir.

Kaffee: Harold, I think there's a concept that you'd better start warming up to.
Dawson: Sir?
Kaffee: I'm the only friend you've got.

Galloway: [refering to Markinson, while holding a phone] Where is he?
Kaffee: [in his apartment] Downtown Lodge on North East.
Galloway: I want him guarded.
Kaffee: That's probably a good idea. Anyway he also says that...
Galloway: [over the phone] My clearance code is 411527273. Thank

you.
Kaffee: Clearance code? I don't have a clearance code. Do you have a clearance code?
Lt. Weinberg: Danny!
Kaffee: Anyway, he also says that Jessup's lying about the transportation off the base. Jessup said the 6 was the first flight out Santiago couuld have left on. Markinson says there was a plane that left seven hours

earlier.
[to Galloway]
Kaffee: That was impressive. Did you get what I said about the flight?
Galloway: Yes. Sam, when a flight takes off there's got to be some kind of record kept, right?
Lt. Weinberg: Yeah, you need the tower chief's log from Gitmo.
Kaffee: Get it.

Galloway: We're gonna win.
Kaffee: Jo, let's not go crazy about this. We don't know who Markinson is we don't know what the log book's going to say. You just concentrate on Downey. I'm going to talk to Ross and tell him where we are.

Kaffee: Private, I want you to tell us one last time. Why did you go to Private Santiago's room on the night of September 6th?
Downey: A code red was ordered by my platoon commander, Lieutenant Jonathan James Kendrick.
Kaffee: Thank you. Your witness.
Capt. Ross: Private, the week of 2 September... the switch

log has you down at Post 39 until 1600. Is that correct?
Downey: I'm sure it is, sir. They keep that log pretty good.
Capt. Ross: How far is it from Post 39 to the Windward Barracks?
Downey: Well, it's a ways, sir. It's a hike.
Capt. Ross: About how far by jeep?
Downey: About

ten, fifteen minutes, sir.
Capt. Ross: You ever have to walk it?
Downey: Yes, sir. That day, sir. Friday. The pick up private - Tthat's like what we call the guy who drops us off at our post and picks us up... also 'cause he can get girls in New York City. The pickup private got a flat, sir, right at 39. He pulled up and, bam, blowout with no spare.

So we had to double-time it back to the barracks.
Capt. Ross: And if it's about ten or fifteen minutes by Jeep, I'm guessing... it must be a good hour by foot, am I right?
Downey: Pickup and me did it in forty-five flat, sir.
Capt. Ross: Not bad. Now, you've said that your assault on Private Santiago was the result of an order

that Lieutenant Kendrick gave you in your barracks room at... 1620, am I right?
Downey: Yes, sir.
Capt. Ross: But you just said that you didn't make it back to the Windward barracks until 1645.
Downey: [confused] Sir?
Capt. Ross: Well, if you didn't make it back to the barracks room until 1645, how

could you be in your room at 1620?
Downey: [nervously] Well, you see, sir, there was a blow out.
Capt. Ross: Private, did you ever actually hear Lieutenant Kendrick order a code red?
Downey: [nervously] Well, Hal said that...
Capt. Ross: Private, did you ever actually hear Lieutenant Kendrick order a

code red?
Downey: No, sir.
Galloway: [stands up from the defense table] Please the court, I'd like to request a recess in order to confer with my client.

Judge Randolph: [Judge Randolph reading the verdict] Lance Corporal Dawson, Private First Class Downey.
[Two defendants rises]
Judge Randolph: On the charge of murder, the members find the accused not guilty. On the charge of conspiracy to commit murder, the members find the accused not guilty. On the charge of conduct unbecoming a United States

Marine, the members find the accused guilty as charged. The accused are hereby sentenced to time already served, and you are ordered to be dishonorably discharged from the Marine Corps. This court martial is adjourned.
[Bangs the gavel]
Bailiff: All rise.
[the courtroom clears; Downey is baffled and afraid, and speaks to Dawson]
Downey:

What does that mean?

Galloway: But my feeling is that if this case is handled in the same fast-food, slick-ass ' Persian Bazaar manner with which you seem to handle everything else, something's gonna get missed. And I wouldn't be doing my job if I allowed Dawson and Downey to spend any more time in prison than absolutely necessary, because their attorney had pre-determined the path of least

resistance.
Kaffee: Wow... I'm sexually aroused, Commander.