Quotes from David Strathairn movies and TV shows

Jason Bourne: Get some rest Pam, you look tired.
Noah Vosen: He's looking right at her.

Noah Vosen: Jesus Christ, that's Jason Bourne.

Wills: They found a body.
Noah Vosen: Bourne?
Wills: Desh.

Noah Vosen: Issue a standing kill order on Jason Bourne, effective immediately.

Noah Vosen: All agents have shoot-on-sight authorization.

Jason Bourne: You didn't really think I was coming to Tudor City, did you?
Noah Vosen: No. I guess not.

Noah Vosen: Our target is a British national - Simon Ross, a reporter. I want all his phones, his BlackBerry, his apartment, his car, bank accounts, credit cards, travel patterns - I want to know what he's going to think before he does. Every dirty little secret he has, and most of all we want the name and real-time location of his source. This is NSA priority level 4. Any questions?

Noah Vosen: You know as well as I do decisions made in real time are never perfect. Don't second guess an operation from an armchair.

Edward R. Murrow: He's gonna hope a senator trumps a newsman.
Fred Friendly: He'll lose.
Edward R. Murrow: Not if we're playing bridge.

Edward R. Murrow: Did you know that Shirley and Joe are married?
Fred Friendly: Yeah.
Edward R. Murrow: Did everybody know?

Don Hollenbeck: I could use a scotch.
Edward R. Murrow: I think everyone could use a scotch.

Edward R. Murrow: We'll split the advertising, Fred and I. He just won't have any presents for his kids at Christmas.
Sig Mickelson: He's a Jew.
Edward R. Murrow: Well don't tell him that. He loves Christmas.

Edward R. Murrow: Funny thing, Freddie, every time you light a cigarette for me, I know you're lying.

Edward R. Murrow: You always were yellow.
Fred Friendly: Better than red.

William Paley: There's a Knickerbocker game tonight, I've got front row seats. Are you interested?
Edward R. Murrow: I'm a little busy bringing down the network tonight, Bill.

Edward R. Murrow: We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.

Edward R. Murrow: What'd the general have to say?
Fred Friendly: It was a colonel. Two of them.
Edward R. Murrow: That makes a general.

Edward R. Murrow: Milo Radulovich.
Fred Friendly: Italian?
Edward R. Murrow: Irish.

Edward R. Murrow: We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

Sid Hatfield: I've met Mr. Felts. I wouldn't piss on him if his heart was on fire.