Chief Elgin Quotes in Three Kings (1999)

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Chief Elgin Quotes:

  • Archie Gates: What's the most important thing in life?

    Troy Barlow: Respect.

    Archie Gates: Too dependent on other people.

    Conrad Vig: What, love?

    Archie Gates: A little Disneyland, isn't it?

    Chief Elgin: God's will.

    Archie Gates: Close.

    Troy Barlow: What is it then?

    Archie Gates: Necessity.

    Troy Barlow: As in?

    Archie Gates: As in people do what is most necessary to them at any given moment.

  • [Conrad retrieved a map from an Iraqi's soldier's butt]

    Sgt. Troy Barlow: Conrad, you've washed your hands like ten times.

    Conrad Vig: Lord knows what kind of vermin live in the butt of a dune coon.

    Chief Elgin: Why do you let this cracker hang around with you, man?

    Sgt. Troy Barlow: He's all right, man. He's from a group home in Dallas. He's got no high school.

    Conrad Vig: Don't tell people that.

    Chief Elgin: I don't care if he's from Johannesburg. I don't want to hear "dune coon" or "sand nigger" from him or anybody else.

    Conrad Vig: Captain uses those terms.

    Sgt. Troy Barlow: That's not the point, Conrad. The point is that "towelhead" and "camel jockey" are perfectly good substitutes.

    Chief Elgin: Exactly!

  • Archie Gates: Sit down. What do you see here?

    Chief Elgin: Bunkers, sir.

    Archie Gates: What's in them?

    Troy Barlow: Stuff they stole from Kuwait.

    Archie Gates: Bullshit. I'm talking about millions in Kuwaiti bullion.

    Conrad Vig: You mean them little cubes you put in hot water to make soup?

    Archie Gates: No, not the little cubes you put in hot water to make soup.

  • Troy Barlow: I'm gonna buy a set of Lexus convertibles in every color.

    Chief Elgin: I told you, Lexus don't make a convertible.

    Troy Barlow: I'll bet you a Lexus they do.

    Chief Elgin: Alright, but it won't be a convertible.

  • Conrad Vig: One gold Rolex would get me a very nice split-level house outside of Garland.

    Troy Barlow: Five Rolexes would get my family that Lexus convertible.

    Chief Elgin: I told you, Lexus doesn't make a convertible.

    Troy Barlow: Yes they do, it has room in the back for a kid's seat.

    Chief Elgin: Infiniti has a convertible but not Lexus.

    Troy Barlow: Wrong.

    Chief Elgin: Either way, the Good Lord has put this map in our path and I believe we're gonna find something.

    Troy Barlow: Yeah, he could also put a land mine in our path if we go out there.

  • Troy Barlow: Let's just stick to the plan. The plan is for the gold, right?

    Chief Elgin: Hold on, we can help these people first, and then we can be on our way.

  • [Maj. Gates knows a map has been found in one of an Iraqi soldier's orifices, but isn't sure which]

    Archie Gates: Good afternoon. Would this be the proctology tent?

    Chief Elgin: No, sir.

    Archie Gates: Maybe it's the urology tent. Or the neurology tent. Or the ear, nose, and throat tent.

    Troy Barlow: Captain's at a staff meeting, sir.

    Archie Gates: Captain a proctologist?

    Conrad Vig: What's a proctologist, sir?

  • Archie Gates: You know anything about gunshot wounds?

    Conrad Vig: I don't know.

    Archie Gates: Specifically, the worst thing about a gunshot wound, provided you survive the bullet, is something called sepsis.

    Chief Elgin: Infection of the blood...

    Archie Gates: That's right. Say a bullet tears into your gut. It creates a cavity in the dead tissue. That cavity fills up with bile, and bacteria, and you're fucked.

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