Kritzinger: That we have undertaken to systematically annihilate all the Jews in Europe? That possibility has personally been denied to me by the Führer!
Heydrich: And it will continue to be.
Heydrich: And it will continue to be.
Lex Luthor: Nobody understands my brilliance. Why do you think that is?
Joker: Might be because you're a super villain.
Luthor: I love that word.
Joker: Which one?
Luthor: "Might".
Joker: Might be because you're a super villain.
Luthor: I love that word.
Joker: Which one?
Luthor: "Might".
—Joker and Lex by Brian Azzarello
Hale: I tried to see the President. Got stopped by his can-do man. All I got was doubletalk. He denied everything.
Hubbard: It's called plausible deniability. (makes Hale stand between a couple of glowing panels in the corridor) If you're wired, it'll be erased.
Hale: Plausible deniability? Which means?
Hubbard: Whenever a President does something sticky he can say he didn't do it, and plausibly deny it.
Hale: Nice term.
Hubbard: Eisenhower used it. Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter used it.
Hale: Who takes the rap?
Hubbard: Whoever did what the President said he didn't do but did.
Hale: Are you saying President Lockwood did?
Hubbard: (innocently) Did what?
Hale: What he didn't do.
Hubbard: (smirk)
M: What do you want?
Royal Navy Officer: We've picked up Goodnight's signal, sir.
M: Well, that's something.
Officer: But there's something rather curious, sir. (points on map) Our sector's here, and we're receiving her signal from somewhere off this coastline here. Now, here it is on a much larger scale. That's where she is. In this group of small islands.
M: That's all we need! Red Chinese waters.
James Bond: We could stray inadvertently into them, sir. I could fly low under their radar screen.
M: Absolutely out of the question. If the PM gets to hear of this, he'll hang me from the yardarm.
Bond: Officially, you won't know a thing about it, sir.
Clarice Starling: So there's no mention of the insect in Klaus' throat, no connection between Klaus and Buffalo Bill.
Jack Crawford: No. You came back to [Hannibal Lecter] because you were so impressed that he could predict Buffalo Bill would start scalping. I'm on the record dismissing him and so is Alan Bloom. But I'm letting you fool with it. You have an offer for some privileges - stuff that only somebody as powerful as Senator Martin could get for him. He has to believe he should hurry because the offer ends if Catherine dies. The Senator totally loses interest in him if that happens. And if he fails, it's because he's not smart and knowledgeable enough to do what he said he could do - it's not because he's holding out to spite us.
Starling: Will the Senator lose interest?
Crawford: Better you should be able to say under oath that you never knew the answer to that question.
Jack Crawford: No. You came back to [Hannibal Lecter] because you were so impressed that he could predict Buffalo Bill would start scalping. I'm on the record dismissing him and so is Alan Bloom. But I'm letting you fool with it. You have an offer for some privileges - stuff that only somebody as powerful as Senator Martin could get for him. He has to believe he should hurry because the offer ends if Catherine dies. The Senator totally loses interest in him if that happens. And if he fails, it's because he's not smart and knowledgeable enough to do what he said he could do - it's not because he's holding out to spite us.
Starling: Will the Senator lose interest?
Crawford: Better you should be able to say under oath that you never knew the answer to that question.
