Admiral Greer Quotes in Patriot Games (1992)

Admiral Greer: Excuse me, Jack, tell me one thing in life that is absolutely for certain.

Jack Ryan: My daughter's love.

Marty Cantor: They were moving him to Albany Prison in the Isle of Wight while it happened. We think he's left the country.

Admiral Greer: Marty, excuse me. Let's deal in what we know and not what we don't. We know he's escaped. We know it happened in Kent near the Channel. If he's left the country... Jack, listening? The chances he'd come here, that he'd try, that he could come here are so remote, I have trouble even saying it.

Jack Ryan: And yet your first instinct was to come all the way here and tell me.

Admiral Greer: SAS could take out any one of these camps in under two minutes. Kill everybody there and be gone before the echo fades. Are you sure this is the same woman?

[Jack has a vacant look on his face]

Admiral Greer: Keep at it, then.

Admiral Greer: It's over.

[On whether Jack should investigate the growing scandal]

Admiral Greer: You took an oath, if you recall, when you first came to work for me. And I don't mean to the National Security Advisor of the United States, I mean to his boss... and I don't mean the President. You gave your word to his boss: you gave your word to the people of the United States. Your word is who you are.

Admiral Greer: [speaking to Jack Ryan] You want to know about politics in Washington? Four words. Watch your back, Jack.