Declan Mulqueen Quotes in The Jackal (1997)

Valentina Koslova: She's Basque, isn't she?

Declan Mulqueen: Aye.

Valentina Koslova: They say Basques live by the vendetta. If they hate someone it's to the death. It's the same when they love.

Declan Mulqueen: Ms. Koslova, is it?

Valentina Koslova: Mm-hmm.

Declan Mulqueen: And what would your first name be?

Valentina Koslova: [Impersonally] Major. Major Koslova.

Carter Preston: Major Koslova ends the debate about women in combat as far as I'm concerned.

Declan Mulqueen: How's that?

Carter Preston: She saved my life and took out Terek's brother. She did it knowing she'd be drawing a death sentence down on her neck. But when we offered to set her up some place else when this is over, you know what she said? The good guys don't hide.

Declan Mulqueen: Fierce woman.

Carter Preston: In that country, under that system: staggering.

Carter Preston: I wonder if we'll ever know who the hell he was.

Declan Mulqueen: We know all we need to. He was evil, he is dead. And he's gone. Nothing more matters.

Declan Mulqueen: Preston, how about letting me have a gun.

Carter Preston: Are you crazy! If the right people knew I was letting you walk around without cuffs, I'd get forced retirement!

[to FBI Director Brown, about the Jackal]

Declan Mulqueen: I'm sorry, Mr. Brown, but this man is no clown. He knows all your moves, back to front. Right now, you've got a name; that's all you've got. So, the Jackal's got a target, you. He's got a timetable. And as to making mistakes, he's spent twenty years in a trade that doesn't forgive error. And he's prevailed. You think he's the one who's up against it?

[shakes his head]

Declan Mulqueen: It's the other way around.

Carter Preston: This is a manhunt, not your cause. Don't make it personal.

Declan Mulqueen: What do you fucking know?

Carter Preston: [as Mulqueen walks away] All right! I'll tell you what I know. I know the Jackal set you up in that arms deal in Libya. I know that Isabella was wounded when *you* walked in to the trap. I also know that it was the life *you* had chosen for...

Declan Mulqueen: Did you also know that Isabella was *pregnant* when she got shot... That OUR CHILD didn't survive! Don't tell me this isn't personal, Mr. Preston!

Carter Preston: I can't risk all of this over a vendetta!

Declan Mulqueen: There's no vendetta. All I hope for now is a fresh start.

Carter Preston: [to himself] That just might happen.

FBI Agent T. I. Witherspoon: Look, we know that certain gang elements in this prison want you dead.

Declan Mulqueen: An entire government wants me dead, mister, yet here I am.

Carter Preston: I'm going back to Russia where I will stay until Terek Murad rots in prison or in the grave.

Declan Mulqueen: [referring to Valentina] I'm sure she'd appreciate that.

Declan Mulqueen: A man like this doesn't make mistakes.

Valentina Koslova: No? They always make one somewhere. Isn't that how you were caught?

Carter Preston: Ouch.

Declan Mulqueen: Do you remember Valentina said "A statement, public and brutal." Now, it always bothered me. Why did he keep comin' when he knew- he knew we could protector the director, especially once I got involved. But he didn't abort. Why? It didn't come together until I remembered what he said to Valentina. "Tell Declan he can't protect his women."

Carter Preston: Wasn't he referring to Isabella?

Declan Mulqueen: No. Any woman. All women! But remember, "public and brutal." We're guarding the wrong person.

[Declan slams a newspaper onto the table]

Declan Mulqueen: He's after the First Lady.

Declan Mulqueen: So many people!

Valentina Koslova: So many rich people.

Declan Mulqueen: [Tongue in cheek] Shall we dance?