65 Charlie Wilson's War Quotes (2026) #3

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Gust Avrakotos: [after smashing the window] How was I?
[typist smiles and gives a thumbs-up]
Gust Avrakotos: ... Thank-you.

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President Zia: I don't need courtesy. I need airplanes, guns and money.
Charlie Wilson: Well, we just doubled the CIA's budget for covert ops.
Brigadier Rashid: From five million to ten million.
Charlie Wilson: That's right!
Colonel Mahmood: Is that a joke?
Charlie

Wilson: No!
Brigadier Rashid: Is that meant to be a funny joke?
Charlie Wilson: No sir!
President Zia: Congressman, what they are saying is that ten million dollars from the United States to fight the Russian army is such a low figure that it can be mistaken for a joke.
Charlie Wilson: I... I

caught on to the sarcasm, sir.

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Charlie's Angel #4: The Washington Post wants to know what you thought of your time in rehab.
Charlie Wilson: And what did you tell them?
Charlie's Angel #4: That the Congressman didn't go to rehab because they don't serve whiskey there.
Charlie Wilson: That's why you're my press secretary, boo-boo!

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Cravely: And I don't know why the hell I didn't fire you when you broke my fucking window.
Gust Avrakotos: Oh yes sure you do Cravely.
Cravely: Look Gust!
Gust Avrakotos: Yeah you're fucking Roger's fiance, and you know I know.
Cravely: I'm not... I'm not... I'm not even gonna dignify

that with a response.
Gust Avrakotos: Yeah yeah, you're dignifying her in the ass, at the Jefferson Hotel, Room 1210, but let me ask you, the 3000 agents Turner fired, was that because they lacked diplomatic skills as well?

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Joanne Herring: [to Charlie's Angels] Sluts.

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President Zia: [Pakistani President Zia agrees to accept Israeli transfers of seized Soviet weapons to the Afghan resistance] Pakistan and Israel would have to appear to be enemies in the public eye.
Charlie Wilson: [pause] Yeah, I don't think that's a tough sell.

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Charlie Wilson: How old are you?
Mike Vickers: I'll be 30 next week.
Charlie Wilson: This is CIA's weapons expert?
Gust Avrakotos: One of them.
Charlie Wilson: But he's the most senior.
Gust Avrakotos: Look...
Chess Player #1: Mike!

Mike Vickers: Yeah, bishop to queen's knight 7.
Gust Avrakotos: See, he's playing without even looking at the board.
Charlie Wilson: That's a useful skill... if Afghanistan's ever invaded by Boris Spassky.

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Gust Avrakotos: There's this story of the Old Zen Master...

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Cravely: Ok. I know it was difficult for you to come in here hat in hand, that's not the kind of... upbringing, I guess is the word I'm looking for, it's not the kind of man you are. I understand that. I'm not looking to humiliate you or exact a price in any way so why don't you just apologize? We'll call it water under the dam and we'll go about our business.
Gust

Avrakotos: Excuse me? What the fuck?
Cravely: What?
Gust Avrakotos: What the fuck are you talking about?
Cravely: Clair George said you were coming in here to apologize.
Gust Avrakotos: I'm supposed to come in here so you could apologize to me.
Cravely: According to

whom?
Gust Avrakotos: Clair George.
Cravely: You told me to go fuck myself. I'm supposed to apologize to you?
Gust Avrakotos: Also water goes over a dam and under a bridge, you poncy school boy.
Cravely: Clearly there's been a miscommunication between Clair George and somebody.

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Gust Avrakotos: Excuse me, what the fuck?

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Board Member: Who wants to build a school in Pakistan?
Charlie Wilson: Afghanistan!

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Charlie Wilson: She always wanted to be a dancer but it was against her religion.
Brigadier Rashid: What religion is that?
Charlie Wilson: She's Baptist.

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Mike Vickers: I've written it all in a report you can read. You'd be the first one who did.

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Joanne Herring: I miss you Charlie.
Charlie Wilson: Oh Joanne... I always miss you.

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President Zia: Do you have the authority to do this?
Charlie Wilson: No, I'm actually in danger of breaking the Logan Act.
President Zia: ...I don't know what that is.

#this

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Gust Avrakotos: You know, me and three other guys are killing Russians. Is it possible that I met the only elected official in town who can help me?

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Charlie Wilson: Who is running the thing? Who is the prosecutor?
Charlie's Angels - Suzanne: Uh... Rudolph Giuliani, New York, Southern District.
Bonnie Bach: Do you know him?
Charlie Wilson: No.

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[last lines]
CIA Award Presenter: 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.