Extreme Measures Quotes

“That's the problem with this whole country. Fucking vast prosperity. No one has any real problems anymore. Ninety percent of the damn politicians in this town either think there's no war on terror, or if we'd just be nice to these zealots they'll leave us alone. Well, that ain't going to fucking happen. The Huns are circling, and we're sitting around arguing about gay rights and prayer and guns and global warming and all kinds of bullshit. These idiots will eventually wake up to the threat, but by then it might be too late. (Stan Hurley)”
― Vince Flynn, Extreme Measures

“Abu, torturing guys and breaking them down is not something I look forward to, although your case is a little different. I think you're such a despicable fuck that I might actually enjoy our little session. (Mitch Rapp to Abu Haggani)”
― Vince Flynn, Extreme Measures

“We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. —WINSTON CHURCHILL”
― Vince Flynn, Extreme Measures

“MIKE Nash glanced anxiously at his watch and then eyed the twin flat-screen monitors. Both prisoners were sleeping soundly. If all went according to plan, their slumber wouldn’t last much longer. The prisoners had been picked up seven days earlier on a routine patrol. At the time, the young GI’s had no idea whom they had stumbled upon. That revelation came later, and by accident. The brass at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan quickly separated the two men from the other 396 enemy”
― Vince Flynn, Extreme Measures

“Kennedy could see she enabled his behavior. She was a pleaser.”
― Vince Flynn, Extreme Measures

“herself. The wineglasses were refreshed and then the waiters filed out. Kennedy”
― Vince Flynn, Extreme Measures

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― Vince Flynn, Extreme Measures

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― Vince Flynn, Extreme Measures

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― Vince Flynn, Extreme Measures

“In the waning light of the attacks that had briefly awakened America to the threat of Islamic radical fundamentalism, the politicians had gone back to their old ways. They had turned on the very people they had asked to secure the country from attack. It always amazed Rapp that these were the very same people who in the year following 9/11 repeatedly asked the CIA if their measures of interrogation were tough enough. Now they were denying ever saying such things.”
― Vince Flynn, Extreme Measures

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― Vince Flynn, Extreme Measures

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― Vince Flynn, Extreme Measures