G-Man Quotes

“Our Director had a vision, Sheriff Swagger. He envisioned a scientific national police force, incorruptible, untainted by ego, vanity, and politics. Alas, as we have learned, that also meant untainted by experience, toughness, cunning, and marksmanship. Lawyers make poor gunfighters.”
― Stephen Hunter, G-Man

“If they’s interested, they wouldn’t believe it. If they believed it, they’d arrest me.”
― Stephen Hunter, G-Man

“learned,”
― Stephen Hunter, G-Man

“Too stupid to know better, too old to care much,” said Charles.”
― Stephen Hunter, G-Man

“Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.”
― Stephen Hunter, G-Man

“Charles checked on his two snitches among the subversives. There were bascially two subversive groups in Blue Eye -Communists and Republicans, - and Charles confirmed quickly that neither had any revolutions planned”
― Stephen Hunter, G-Man

“That’s the bravest thing, I think: not to be brave for yourself but for a buddy when it gets you nothing and costs you everything.”
― Stephen Hunter, G-Man

“If you did ’Nam, brother, no payment at all. You already paid up in full.” —”
― Stephen Hunter, G-Man

“Some men are born to destroy, and nothing satisfies them but that. Whatever you’ve got, they want to tear it apart, from architecture and bank vaults to order and society itself, anything, just to watch it twist, shred, and die. Then”
― Stephen Hunter, G-Man