- Deputy Director Nicholas Spiller: We have no way of verifying what you're saying...
- Martin Odum: You think I'm making this up? Look, Dobson was running stolen military hardware from out there. That's why the missile was there.
- Deputy Director Nicholas Spiller: But you can't prove any of this.
- Martin Odum: I could if I wasn't sitting here.
- Ahmed Hassan: I'm on schedule.
- Mr. Porter: Clockwork. Pull out now or we're officially pregnant.
- Ahmed Hassan: Americans speak of everything in terms of sex or money.
- Mr. Porter: I'd throw football in there, too. But not the kind you like, real football.
- Ahmed Hassan: And you wonder why you're hated by the world.
- Mr. Porter: I used to wonder. Not any more.
- Nelson Gates: [bringing investigation results] Well, you're still in the FBI.
- Martin Odum: How'd you pull that one off?
- Nelson Gates: Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
- Maggie Harris: You're Sebastian Egon?
- Martin Odum: My favorite legend.
- Crystal McGuire: Why is that?
- Martin Odum: Well, for one, he drinks. Not just drinks, he drinks scotch out of a coffee at ten in the morning. Writer, journalist, professional contrarian. Never met a sacred he didn't try to slay. He's a disillusioned socialist turned gad fly wit, turned exhibitionist, turned blasphemer. Sebastian Egon is the most famous journalist someone's ever met. Who drinks.
- [takes a gulp]
- Martin Odum: How far are you willing to go, Miss Jibril?
- Hani Jibril: To the death.
- Martin Odum: Yours or his?
- Maggie Harris: You're Sebastian Egan?
- Martin Odum: My favorite legend.
- Crystal McGuire: Why is that?
- Martin Odum: Well, for one, he drinks. Not just drinks, he drinks scotch out of a coffee at ten in the morning. Writer, journalist, professional contrarian. Never met a sacred he didn't try to slay. He's a disillusioned socialist turned gad fly wit, turned exhibitionist, turned blasphemer. Sebastian Egan is the most famous journalist someone's ever met. Who drinks.
- [takes a gulp]