Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
Om Puri: President Zia
Quotes
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President Zia : I don't need courtesy. I need airplanes, guns and money.
Charlie Wilson : Well, we just doubled the CIA's budget for covert ops.
Brigadier Rashid : From five million to ten million.
Charlie Wilson : That's right!
Colonel Mahmood : Is that a joke?
Charlie Wilson : No!
Brigadier Rashid : Is that meant to be a funny joke?
Charlie Wilson : No sir!
President Zia : Congressman, what they are saying is that ten million dollars from the United States to fight the Russian army is such a low figure that it can be mistaken for a joke.
Charlie Wilson : I... I caught on to the sarcasm, sir.
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Charlie Wilson : This thing is going to get done by the CIA and it's going to get done quietly.
President Zia : You have authority to do this?
Charlie Wilson : [shrugging] None what so ever.
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President Zia : [Pakistani President Zia agrees to accept Israeli transfers of seized Soviet weapons to the Afghan resistance] Pakistan and Israel would have to appear to be enemies in the public eye.
Charlie Wilson : [pause] Yeah, I don't think that's a tough sell.
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President Zia : Do you have the authority to do this?
Charlie Wilson : No, I'm actually in danger of breaking the Logan Act.
President Zia : ...I don't know what that is.