Traffic Movie Quotes
General Ralph Landry
You know, when Khruschev was forced out, he sat down and wrote two letters and gave them to his successor. He said - "When you get yourself into a situation you can't get out of, open the first letter, and you'll be safe. When you get yourself into another situation you can't get out of, open the second letter". Well, soon enough, this guy found himself into a tight place, so he opened the first letter. Which said - "Blame everything on me". So he blames the old man, it worked like a charm. He got himself into a second situation he couldn't get out of, he opened the second letter. It said - "Sit down, and write two letters".
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Caroline Wakefield
What's Washington like?
Robert Wakefield
What's Washington like? Well its like Calcutta, surrounded by beggars. The only difference is the beggars in Washington wear fifteen hundred dollar suits and they don't say please or thank you.
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Robert Wakefield
I can't believe you brought my daughter to this place.
Seth Abrahams
Woah. Why don't you just back the fuck up, man. "To this place"? What is that shit? Ok, right now, all over this great nation of ours, 'hundred thousand white people from the suburbs are cruisin' around downtown asking every black person they see "You got any drugs? You know where I can score some drugs?" *Think* about the effect that that has on the psyche of a black person, on their possibilities. I... God I guarantee you bring a hundred thousand black people into your neighborhood, into fuckin' Indian Hills, and they're asking every white person they see "You got any drugs? You know where I can score some drugs?", within a *day* everyone would be selling. Your friends. Their kids. Here's why: it's an unbeatable market force man. It's a three-hundred percent markup value. You can go out on the street and make five-hundred dollars in two hours, come back and do whatever you want to do with the rest of your day and, I'm sorry, you're telling me that... you're telling me that white people would still be going to law school?
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Javier Rodriguez
You like baseball? We need lights for the parks, so kids can play at night. So they can play baseball. So they don't become burros para los malones. Everybody likes baseball. Everybody likes parks.
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Robert Wakefield
If there is a war on drugs, then many of our family members are the enemy. And I don't know how you wage war on your own family.
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Montel Gordon
I lost my virginity with a sophomore in high school.
Ray Castro
That's cool.
Montel Gordon
Yeah, sweet.
Ray Castro
Did he treat you good?
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Ray Castro
Why are hurricanes named after women?
Montel Gordon
I don't know.
Ray Castro
Because when they arrive, they're wet and wild, and when they leave they take your house and your car.
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Montel Gordon
You ever try the patch, man?
Ray Castro
The what?
Ray Castro
Oh man, that shit doesn't work, bro.
Montel Gordon
It worked for my cousin.
Ray Castro
No shit?
Montel Gordon
Yeah. Well he had to wear about 6 at a time, but it worked, though.
Ray Castro
So how is he now?
Montel Gordon
Oh he's dead.
Ray Castro
He's dead?
Montel Gordon
It wasn't because of the patch, man.
Ray Castro
So what did he die from?
Montel Gordon
His wife shot him.
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Eduardo Ruiz
You guys remind me of Japanese soldiers on deserted islands who still think world war two is still going on. The fact is that your government surrendered this war a long fucking time ago.
Montel Gordon
You know, I don't think this attitude is gonna help him in front of the judge. Eduardo, there is just one thing wrong with this math. You're in here.
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Caroline Wakefield
On the good days, I feel like I get it, like it all makes sense. I can stay in the moment, I don't have to control everything in the future, and I believe everything is gonna work out fine. On the bad days I just want to grab the phone and start dialing numbers. I want to pull my hair and run through the streets screaming. But thanks to the people I've met in these rooms, like Margaret and Jim and Sarah, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna make it through today.
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[last lines]
Robert Wakefield
My name is Robert. And my wife, Barbara and I are here to support our daughter Caroline. And we're here to listen.
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Robert Wakefield
What are your policies towards treatment of addiction?
General Salazar
Treatment of addiction? Addicts treat themselves. They overdose and then there's one less to worry about.
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Robert Wakefield
Look, we need to take down either of these cartels: either Juarez or Tijuana. Not because they're a symbol but... hell, they are a symbol! But because we need to send a message! When Carlos Ayala hires Michael Addler as his legal defense, I send Ben Williams down to San Diego as a prosecutor, why? Because it's a symbol. It's a symbol that we are sending the best! It's a message that we're going after their top guys.
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Helena Ayala
I'm six months pregnant, I won't do it.
Juan Obregón
Then we don't have a deal.
Helena Ayala
Yeah, right, we don't have a deal. I'm sorry to have wasted your time Mr. Obregón...
Juan Obregón
Okay. Okay, okay.
[sniffs cocaine]
Juan Obregón
That's good coke.
Helena Ayala
It should be... it's yours.
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Caroline Wakefield
Is this like freebasing?
Seth Abrahams
Not like. It is.
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Ray Castro
Hey sugarfoot! How do you like your new place?
[Agents Laugh]
Eduardo Ruiz
You got to be kidding me. This is not what my lawyers negotiated.
Montel Gordon
Fuck your lawyers. You aren't getting any cappuccino or Biscotti either. You don't like it, call 1-800-CRIMINAL.
[Agents Laugh]
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Robert Wakefield
Well you've done a fine job, General. The Office of National Drug Control Policy is in better shape than when you found it.
General Ralph Landry
I'm not sure I made the slightest difference. I tried. I really did.
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Lawyer Rodman
This informant, paid by police, using taxpayer dollars to continue his felony drug habit was the link that allowed police to raid a private farm. A working farm where honest Americans make their living. Now, the government in its haste has hired an army of criminals whose alligiance to the truth is at best questionable.
Robert Wakefield
Mr. Rodman, it's a shame that your client didn't use as much sense in choosing what he planted as he did in choosing his attorney. But lately the only variation I'm hearing in your argument is the name of your client. Now, you can stand here all day and argue the ins and outs of Illinois v. Gates, but you're not gonna convince me that our government has not sanctioned the use of anonymous informants. Furthermore there is no sacred protection of property rights in our country. You grow marijuana on your farm, be it an ounce or an acre of plants, that farm can be seized, and that farm can be sold.
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Francisco Flores
I want to use a bomb.
Helena Ayala
Are you kidding? Can't you just shoot him or something?
Francisco Flores
I don't really like guns. You shoot someone in the head three times and some pinche doctor will keep them alive.
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Eduardo Ruiz
This is coercion.
Montel Gordon
Coercion. That's a pretty big word for a fisherman.
Ray Castro
Big-ass word.
Eduardo Ruiz
Oh, yeah? I know another big word: immunity.
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Montel Gordon
I know.
Ray Castro
I can't hear it.
Montel Gordon
The fucking bug's too far away from the room. It's halfway to the kitchen. We're not going to get shit.
Ray Castro
They're saying something. They sound like they're conspiring to conspire. I can feel the lies vibrating from their home.
Montel Gordon
I don't think she's in on it, man.
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[In Spanish]
General Salazar
How did you find out about this?
Javier Rodriguez
A little bird told me.
General Salazar
What is the name of your little bird?
Javier Rodriguez
It doesn't have a name.
General Salazar
Those fucking anonymous ones!
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Montel Gordon
I don't think she's in on it, man.
Ray Castro
Come on, I have dram about this, I have actual dreams about this, about busting the top people, the rich people, WHITE people!
Montel Gordon
I know, I know, but I don't think she's in on it, man.
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Tourist Woman
Don't you wanna know what kind of car it is?
Tourist Man
Yeah, it's a brown Ford Explorer...
Tourist Woman
- Look, it was right here, it's been stolen, I wanna file a report.
Manolo Sanchez
A report, will not help you find your car.
Javier Rodriguez
Eh; the police won't find your car.
Tourist Woman
You ARE the police!
Javier Rodriguez
[he writes down a number and hands it to her]
You gonna call this man... and he'll find your car for you.
Tourist Man
I don't-I don't get it.
Tourist Woman
How is this guy gonna know who has our car?
Javier Rodriguez
...the police will tell him.
Tourist Man
Why-why will they tell him and they won't tell us?
Tourist Woman
Because we pay him, stupid. Right? Then he pays the police and suddenly our car appears.
Javier Rodriguez
Es, es, es correct, es correct.
Tourist Woman
[quietly]
Just give it to him, alright?
Tourist Man
I know.
Tourist Woman
Give him the money!
Javier Rodriguez
Let's start moving to the sidewalk.
Tourist Man
[offering the money]
Take it.
Javier Rodriguez
Nononono.
Tourist Woman
No, please, take it!
Javier Rodriguez
Nononono, nono, let's start moving to the sidewalk, to the sidewalk, let's go to the sidewalk.
[disgusted, the couple start to walk off]
Javier Rodriguez
Call the man! Have a nice day.
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Helena Ayala
My husband was working on something he called "the project for the children". Were you aware of this?
Juan Obregón
I don't know. Perhaps I remember something...
[Helena reveals a Spastic Jack doll]
Juan Obregón
If you want to smuggle narcotics in Senore Espastico Jacobo, that is nothing new, Senora.
Helena Ayala
No, not *in*. The doll *is* cocaine. High-impact, pressure-molded cocaine. It's oderless. Undetectable by the dogs. Undetectable by anyone...
Juan Obregón
I don't believe you, Senora.
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Montel Gordon
We got him making the deal on tape, we got him bragging about the quality and his business. We got this motherfucker.
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Agent Hughes
Yeah, but first let's talk about what precautions you're taking to protect yourself.
Javier Rodriguez
You worry about getting me what I want, I'll worry about myself.
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General Salazar
[about Frankie Flowers]
When we loves me like a father, he will never tell anyone he was here. He will freely give us the name of his superiors. Then, when we get to them, they too will give us the names of their superiors. And eventually somebody will get us to Juan Obregón, and when that happens, the Tijuana Cartel will fall.
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Seth Abrahams
[high on coke]
We act like we have all the answers and we're totally invincible, like our parents seem and their parents before them, and I'm sorry, that I have to be the one to say this, but it's fucking bullshit. For instance I know that you jack-off to Caroline every night instead of Vanessa, who you're supposed to be in love with. Whatever that... don't even get me started on that convention, I mean, think about it. What is that convention? We're this random collection of self-interest all of a sudden , and we just decide that we're just gonna, we're just gonna walk two by two down the fucking aisle to you know, Noah's ark?
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Helena Ayala
I'm on the board of my son's school, I have fundraisers for adult literacy at my own home. I think I have a right to know if my husband is a legitimate business man.
Arnie Metzger
Of course he is.
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Manolo Sanchez
So, the Scorpion and Salazar are working together, and they're making a move on Juan Obregón? Do you know how much he would pay for information like that? A lot!
Javier Rodriguez
Take of your sunglasses.
Manolo Sanchez
What?
Javier Rodriguez
I said, take of your sunglasses.
Manolo Sanchez
Why?
Javier Rodriguez
I'm not kidding, Manolito. Take of your sunglasses.
[Manolo removes his sunglasses]
Javier Rodriguez
We will keep our mouths shut!
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Robert Wakefield
Open the god damn door!
Caroline Wakefield
One minute.
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[Carlos has just had Arnie killed]
Helena Ayala
Who was that?
Carlos Ayala
Oh that was Arnie. He can't make it to the barbecue.
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[Robert Wakefield has offered the drug dealer a bribe for information about his missing daughter]
Drug Dealer
Who in the FUCK do you think you are? Where the fuck do you think you are, and why the fuck don't I just put your ass in a dumpster?
Drug Dealer
[Infuriated]
I got money!
Robert Wakefield
I've got a thousand dollars in my pocket; it's for you.
Drug Dealer
If I want your money man, I will TAKE your money!
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[interrogating Frankie Flowers, in Spanish]
General Salazar
They say in Latin, "In vino veritas". Wine tells the truth. Use this to write down the addresses of those bastards who killed my captains. And not where they were last week but where they are *now*, where they are this minute, and better yet, where they are going to be tomorrow. You know where they are going to be tomorrow, right?
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Helena Ayala
My husband was the victim of an informer in your organization, not in ours.
Juan Obregón
That is not true, Mrs. Ayala. Your route has been compromised. Perhaps it's time for me to deal with other distributers in California.
Helena Ayala
I don't think you're gonna do that.
Juan Obregón
You don't?
Helena Ayala
No. My husband was working on something he called The Project For The Children. Are you aware of this?
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Montel Gordon
You make us believe you got a boss, Eddie. Look, no boss - it's all on you.
Eduardo Ruiz
No. No, it's a death sentence. I'd never make it to the death sentence.
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Helena Ayala
What's going on? They came into the house. They just took him away. They searched my home.
Arnie Metzger
Let me tell you what's happening, alright? Now, first of all, Carl is not here. The D.E.A. has got him and they're gonna hang on to him until his arraignment, which will probably be tomorrow, alright? So here, you're wasting your time, alright? Are you with me?
Helena Ayala
Yeah.
Arnie Metzger
Okay. Now, do not discuss anything over the telephone. Don't talk to your neighbors, stay out of your yard.
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Barbara Wakefield
You might want to pencil a little face time with your daughter.
Robert Wakefield
Barbara.
Barbara Wakefield
Because I'm at the edge of my capabilities, Robert.
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Carlos Ayala
Listen to me, I built our house, and I'm not going to lose it. My business, that would take a lot of private study. I suggest you look into the Coronel.
Helena Ayala
The painting?
Carlos Ayala
Into selling it. If you can stomach it. You should look into it.
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Montel Gordon
So you pay off customs officials?
Montel Gordon
Well, you know, in Mexico, law enforcement is an entrepreneurial activity. Not so much in the states, anyway, we, uh... We hire drivers with nothing and throw a lot of product at the problem. Some gets stopped, enough gets through. It's not difficult. Look, boys, this has worked for years, okay. It's going to continue to work for years.
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Robert Wakefield
Where are they? Where the hell are the drugs? Where are they?
Caroline Wakefield
Fuck you!
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Javier Rodriguez
[to DEA Agent]
Yes, but I have a contact at Mextel who can get me his new E.S.N. in twelve hours.
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Robert Wakefield
Just tell me where my daughter is.
Drug Dealer
[to Seth]
Don't do this shit again.
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Chief of Staff
Anything else?
Robert Wakefield
No, Sir.
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Caroline Wakefield
Will we get invited to the White House?
Robert Wakefield
I don't know about that, honey.
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Javier Rodriguez
It's all about the money.
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Seth Abrahams
Now you see.
Caroline Wakefield
Let's do some more.
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Arnie Metzger
Stay out of things.
Helena Ayala
That is going to be rather difficult when all the evidence is against us.
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Helena Ayala
Who does Carl sell to?
Arnie Metzger
You should not have any contact with those people.
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Chief of Staff
[to Robert Wakefield]
There are a lot of interests in this town. FBI, CIA, DEA, ATF, IRS. Right now they're scared of you.
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[first lines]
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Prosecutor
Did you feel like you were working at a legitimate enterprise?
Witness
...No. Not really.
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Caroline Wakefield
Fuck you. I wasn't doing anything. You're like the Gestapo.
Robert Wakefield
Well, fuck you.
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Seth Abrahams
I want to have sex and then do a hit right as we're both cumming.
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DEA Agent
Javier, you should feel good about this.
Javier Rodriguez
I feel like a traitor.
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Teacher
May I help, you sir? Excuse me!
Robert Wakefield
Seth has to be excused. He's going on a field trip.
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Jeff Sheridan
[to Robert]
I know everyone that you're going to meet. I know what they want and why.
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Caroline Wakefield
None of my friends can fucking believe my Dad's actually the drug's...
Barbara Wakefield
Caroline.
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Helena Ayala
Nobody will help us. Nobody will take us in. Nobody wants anything to do with us, Carl. So you just tell me how you're going to make it up to me.
Carlos Ayala
Helena.
Helena Ayala
Just tell me what to do.
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