The Pentagon Wars Quotes

The Pentagon Wars is a Comedy that appeared on TV in 1970 on HBO. The Pentagon Wars ended its run in 1970.

It features Howard Meltzer as producer, Joseph Vitarelli in charge of musical score, and Robert Yeoman as head of cinematography. The Pentagon Wars is executive produced by Martyn Burke.

The Pentagon Wars is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Pentagon Wars is 1 h 43 min long. The Pentagon Wars is produced by HBO Pictures and distributed by HBO.

The Pentagon Wars Quotes

• (Unnamed) "Fourteen."
• (Unnamed) "Million?"
• (Unnamed) "Billion --"
• (Unnamed) "What?"
• (Unnamed) "Billion."
• (Unnamed) "Billion? With a "B"?"
• (Unnamed) "With a "B"."

• (Unnamed) "What are you doing now, sir?"
• (Unnamed) "Paper cuts, Fanning. Vicious paper cuts."

• (Unnamed) "The Brits did a study on aluminum."
• (Unnamed) "That would be the same aluminum sheathing used on the Bradley, sir."
• (Unnamed) "When hit by a shell, it has a tendency to burn, and when it burns it gives off a toxic gas."
• (Unnamed) "god****it. We fought a revolution so we wouldn't have to pay any attention to the f***ing British."

• (Unnamed) "Please be seated. This will be brief, as I'm needed at the Oval Office. I'd like to call your attention to this morning's New York Times. If you'll turn to the editorial page? It essentially says that every weapon we produce is an over-priced piece of junk. Now, that's not news, critics have said it for years. What was news to me touched on our supposedly spectacular "Sgt. York" Anti-Aircraft Gun. It says that there when the "Sgt. York" proved incapable of hitting airplanes, we test-fired it at hovering helicopters. When it failed to hit hovering helicopters, we test-fired it at stationary targets, and it missed those. Now is this possible, General Keane?"
• (Unnamed) "There was a problem with the proximity fusing."
• (Unnamed) "According to this, one missile locked on to a ventilation fan in the latrine, and destroyed the latrine. Were we test-firing at latrines that day?"

• (Unnamed) "All right, let's just make the fuselage in Michigan and the landing gear in Mississippi. Yeah, by all means, let's keep Congressman Groves and his blood-sucking buddies happy."

• (Unnamed) "Seventeen years, and fourteen billion dollars of the taxpayers' money, to design and build one armored vehicle."

• (Unnamed) "This is not just a report, it's a deadly weapon."
• (Unnamed) "Sir, an M-16 is a deadly weapon. A report is just a pile of paper, unless you're planning to inflict a lot of extremely vicious paper cuts."

• (Unnamed) ""The characterization noted in your draft, at best represents a serious misunderstanding of my concerns, especially in connection with a vehicle as flawed as the Bradley. As noted in my original report -- ""
• (Unnamed) "Jesus Christ. Who did this f***ing thing go to?"
• (Unnamed) "The distribution page listed 198 names."
• (Unnamed) "COURT-MARTIAL THE SON OF A BITCH. LOCK HIM UP NOW."
• (Unnamed) "Uh, we can't."
• (Unnamed) "WE SURE AS HELL CAN."
• (Unnamed) "Burton's playing by the rules. His report was classified. You revised it, and sent it back to him. He wrote a memo on your revision which, in accordance with regulations, can be given to anyone involved with the Bradley, sir. In this case, 198 people."
• (Unnamed) "I will f***ing kill him -- I will filet him -- I will draw and quarter him, I'll stick his head in a vice --."
• (Unnamed) "We can't touch him, sir. It's by the book."
• (Unnamed) "Then you go back and find something in the god**** book that will help me fry the little son of a bitch."

• (Unnamed) "You know what's really ironic? General Omar Bradley was a brilliant tactician, and a great leader. No ego, just did the job. And he always looked out for the morale and safety of his men. And then they go and put his name on THIS thing. Talk about a kick in the ass."

• (Unnamed) "Just because the tests didn't turn out the way Colonel Burton thought they would, was no reason to suspect there was anything devious going on."
• (Unnamed) "I ask you General, filling the fuel tanks with WATER before a test to check the combustibility of those tanks, that wasn't devious?"
• (Unnamed) "If the tanks had been filled with fuel, there's a good chance the vehicle would have exploded."
• (Unnamed) "Isn't that the point?"
• (Unnamed) "If the vehicle had exploded, we wouldn't be able to run additional tests."

• (Unnamed) "But even a heat-seeking missile can miss a target."
• (Unnamed) "General, it says here that you taped electric hotplates to the surface of the vehicle to help your heat-seeking missile find its target, and that the surface temperature of the vehicle was so high it could have fried an egg at twenty feet."

• (Unnamed) "I'll buy the army a new god**** door."
• (Unnamed) "You can't afford a door like that; do you see what it stood up to?"
• (Unnamed) "Exactly. Some SPITBALL from Romania."

• (Soldier) "Sir, Major Sayers needs to see you in the library."
• (Unnamed) "Tell Major Sayers I'm busy."
• (Soldier) "But, sir, he told me to tell you that the little prick ordered tests on the Bradley."
• (Unnamed) "What? I'll have his ass in a sling so fast --"
• (Soldier) "Whose ass, sir, Major Sayers or the little prick?"

• (Unnamed) "I'm not going to sit here and tell you the Paveway never missed."
• (Unnamed) "It missed by a mean distance of five miles, and nearly fifty percent of the time."
• (Unnamed) "You know, in baseball, a guy that hits.400 is considered pretty damned great."
• (Unnamed) "In baseball, the losing team isn't killed by their opponents."

• (Unnamed) "In summation, what you have before you is --"
• (Unnamed) "A troop transport that can't carry troops, a reconnaissance vehicle that's too conspicuous to do reconnaissance --"
• (Unnamed) "And a quasi-tank that has less armor than a snow-blower, but carries enough ammo to take out half of D.C. THIS is what we're building?"

• (Unnamed) "We take atoms and molecules, and by the time we're finished with them, they're everything from combat boots to bombs, the kind of bombs no one from the other side will ever see until the damn thing's plowing down their chimney like Santa Claus from hell."

• (Unnamed) "Did you, or did you not confront Colonel Burton at the Pentagon pharmacy and say to him, "If I hear one more word about your; expletive deleted; report, you're gonna be sitting on your brains"?"
• (Unnamed) "Does that sound like me, sir?"

• (Unnamed) "If the army acted on the advice of every Tom, Dick and Harry who had an opinion on these matters, we'd all end up with a bunch of B-52s powered by outboard motors."

• (Unnamed) "Where am I supposed to put the extra ammo?"
• (Unnamed) "I don't know."
• (Unnamed) "You've already got 30,000 rounds of machine gun ammunition, now he wants to add 30-millimeter shells?"
• (Unnamed) "The general wants his ammo."
• (Unnamed) "He can't have his ammo, not unless he runs alongside this thing carrying it."

• (Unnamed) "We have had some spectacular successes."
• (Unnamed) "Such as?"
• (Unnamed) "That's classified information."

• (Unnamed) "Am I to understand you were not in favor of the tests Col. Burton proposed?"
• (Unnamed) "Absolutely not."
• (Unnamed) "Absolutely not yes or absolutely not no?"
• (Unnamed) "Absolutely not absolutely."

• (Unnamed) "Every other year, Congress decides we're spending too much money, a bunch of eggheads put their pointy little heads together and come up with a plan. This year it's the Joint Live-Fire Test Program. So now we've got the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines doing a circle-jerk over weapons testing, and you get to hold the big dick."

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