Charlie Wilson's War Quotes

Zvi: I love you, Charlie, but you are a grown man who still hasn't learned to look both ways before he crosses the fucking street!
[he glares at Charlie]
Zvi: Alright, I'll help you.
[he turns and looks at Avrakotos]
Zvi: But I don't like this guy!
Charlie Wilson: I know exactly how you feel.

Gust Avrakotos: The Swiss-made Oerlikon STA antiaircraft cannon - that's what you'd use to shoot down an Mi-24 HIND gunship in the mountains, right.
Mike Vickers: Well, the Oerlikon's a good start, but the Russians would just start flying higher-altitude missions.
Charlie Wilson: So what else do they need?
Mike

Vickers: Same thing they'd give us: AK-47s, AK-74s, AKMS. The Soviets didn't come into Afghanistan on a Eurail pass, they came in T-55 tanks. The fighters need RPG-7 antitank grenade launchers, Katyusha 170-millimeter rockets, wire mines, plastic mines, bicycle bombs, sniper rifles, ammunition for all of the above, and frequency-hopping radios and burst transmitters so these guys aren't

so fucking easy to find. I've written it all in a report you can read; you'd be the first one who did.

Cravely: You tell me to go fuck myself and I'm supposed to apologize. You break my window, I'm supposed to apologize?
Gust Avrakotos: The Helsinki job was mine!
Cravely: The Helsinki job was not yours. If it was yours, you'd be in Helsinki.
Gust Avrakotos: Alan Wolfe stood in this office...

Cravely: Alan Wolfe is no longer the director...
Gust Avrakotos: It was on the books.
Cravely: Alan Wolfe is no longer the director of European Operations. He does not make those appointments. I do.
Gust Avrakotos: Promises were made!
Cravely: Not by me.
Gust

Avrakotos: I've been with the company for 24 years! I was posted in Greece for 15! Papandreou wins that election if I don't help the Junta take him prisoner! I've advised and armed the Hellenic Army! I've neutralized champions of Communism! I've spent the past 3 years learning Finnish which should come in handy here in Virginia! And I'm never ever sick at sea! So I wanna know why I'm not

gonna be your Helsinki Station Chief.
Cravely: You're coarse.
Gust Avrakotos: Excuse me?
Cravely: For Helsinki I need someone with diplomatic skills. You don't have them.
Gust Avrakotos: Is that right?
Cravely: That is right. And I don't know why the hell I didn't fire you when

you broke my fucking window!

Cravely: I'm sorry but you can hardly blame the director for questioning the loyalty to America of people that are barely Americans in the first place.
Gust Avrakotos: Yeah, well, I'd like to take a moment to review the several ways in which you're a douchebag.
Cravely: Get the fuck out of my office before I end your career, asshole!

Gust Avrakotos: Yes, sir!
[to the maintenance guy fixing the window]
Gust Avrakotos: Yeah, my friend, I'm gonna need you for a second.
[smashes the window]
Cravely: [shouting] Goddamn it!
Gust Avrakotos: My loyalty? For 24 years people have been trying to kill me. People who know how. Now,

do you think that's because my dad was a Greek soda pop maker? Or do you think it's because Im an American spy? Go fuck yourself, you fucking child!

[first lines]
CIA Award Presenter: The defeat and break up of the Soviet empire, culminating in the crumbing of the Berlin wall, is one of the great events of world history. There were many heroes in this battle but to Charlie Wilson must go this special recognition. Just thirteen years ago the Soviet army appeared to be invincible. But Charlie, undeterred, engineered a

lethal body blow that weakened the communist empire. Without Charlie, history would be hugely and sadly different. And so for the first time a civilian is being given our highest recognition: that of honored colleague. Ladies and gentlemen of the clandestine services, congressman Charles Wilson.