The Best Colonel Isaac Johnson Quotes

Colonel: Bob Lee Swagger, my name is Colonel Isaac Johnson. You're a hard man to find.
Bob: But not hard enough.

Bob: Don't really like the President much. Didn't like the one before that, much, either.
Colonel: You like the idea of the President, living in a free country. Do we allow America to be ruled by thugs?
Bob: Sure, some years we do.

Michael: Gunnery Sergeant Bob Lee Swagger, USMC, retired. He is the best there is.
Louis: His last assignment went wrong. Put in unfriendly territory on a loan-out and left as expendable. Opposing force sent an attack helicopter and a hundred-man company. His best friend and spotter was killed. No official report.
Jack: Ghost report says he inflicted 70 percent casualties; the rest fled.
Louis: The Agency asset that left him there to die? Suddenly removed from the face of the earth two weeks after. They never laid it at Bob Lee's feet. He retired a week later.
Colonel: I guess Bob Lee didn't think he was expendable.

Bob: You know what it takes to make a shot at that range? Everything comes into play that far - humidity, elevation, temperature, wind, spindrift. There's a 6 to 10-second flight time so you have to shoot at where the target's going to be. Even the Coriolis effect, the spin of the Earth, comes into play. President'll be wearing body armor, that means a headshot at over a mile. You believe there's a shooter involved capable of making this shot?
Colonel: Yes.
Bob: Well, then you got a real problem. You need to find the shooter.

Colonel: What the hell am I doing here? You've got nothing on me. I'm covered. Call the Joint Chief.
Attorney: That won't be necessary, Colonel, as I have already received no less than a dozen calls from highly-ranked and powerfully-placed individuals telling me to let you go, but the joy of checks and balances in our government is that I can, and am, indeed, required by law, to tell them to fuck off.

Colonel: I won. You lost. Get used to the idea, son.
Bob: I'm not your son.

Bob: Where are we meeting?
Colonel: Somewhere I can see you... coming from a god-damned long way off.

Colonel: Sometimes to catch a wolf you need to tie the bait to a tree.
Michael: Then what happens to the bait.
Colonel: Hard to say, but thats the nature of being the bait.

Colonel: This is our guy.
Jack: I thought he turned you down.
Colonel: He said yes. He just doesn't know it yet.