Forbes Quotes

Kang: I have no interest in your nuclear launch codes. By now, your Pentagon has changed them, no? Sit.
[Forbes and one of Kang's terrorists sits Asher down]
President Benjamin Asher: You from the North? You sure as hell are not from the South.
Kang: I'm working for justice, to give millions of starving men, women, and

children a chance at more than just subsistence. To end the civil war your country interrupted so long ago. And yes, for a united, prosperous Korea.
Forbes: It's a whole new world, baby.
President Benjamin Asher: What's the going rate for souls these days?
Forbes: [turns cross] What do you say to me?
President

Benjamin Asher: I never would've taken you for a traitor.
Forbes: Me? What about you? You sold this country out long before I ever did. Globalization and fuckin' Wall Street! What's the cost to a presidency nowadays anyway, huh? $500 Million? I'm a fuckin' rookie compared to you!
[Asher head-butts Forbes in the face]
President Benjamin

Asher: Gotta keep your gloves up, Forbes.

Major Forbes: [as Col. Shaw is writing, Maj. Forbes approaches him with a letter from President Lincoln] They've done it.
Colonel Robert G. Shaw: [Shaw reads the letter] Assemble the men.
[54th is in formation in the pouring rain in the Camp Readville common area]
Colonel Robert G. Shaw: In accordance with President Lincoln's

wishes, you men are advised that the Confederate Congress has issued a proclamation. It reads: 'Any negro taken in arms against the Confederacy will immediately be returned to a state of slavery. Any negro taken in Federal uniform will be summarily put to death. Any white officer taken in command of negro troops shall be deemed as inciting servile insurrection and shall likewise be put to death.'

Full discharges will be granted in the morning to all those who apply. Dismissed.
Colonel Robert G. Shaw: [turning to Forbes after dismissal of troops] If you're not here in the morning, I'll understand.
Trip: [turns to Sharts] Still want that blue suit, nigger?