Fiedler Quotes in Enemy of the State (1998)

Fiedler: *Please* let me follow the nanny. She doesn't shave her legs. Women like that are so... HOT.

[the NSA team is watching satellite footage of a conversation between Dean and Brill on a rooftop]

Hicks: Can you get a feature scan and pattern matching on him?

Van: No, he's smart, he never looks up.

Jones: Why does he have to look up?

Fiedler: The satellite is 155 miles above the Earth. It can only look straight down.

Jones: That's a bit limited, isn't it?

Van: [Sarcastically] Well, maybe you should design a better one.

Jones: Maybe I will idiot.

Fiedler: Rachel F., for you-know-what, Banks. God, would I love to have her ruin my life.

Selby: Jones, Krug, what, are you guys from Communications?

Jones: No, we're Ops.

Fiedler: You can tell by their haircuts.

Alec Leamas: Mundt was a Nazi, wasn't he?

Fiedler: He was a member of the Hitler Youth... as a boy.

Alec Leamas: Now he's a grown-up Communist. He was what I would call... available.

Fiedler: Like you!... Shall we begin? Let me start by asking you an amusing question.

Alec Leamas: Let me start by asking you one! Make you laugh your head off! Where's my money? When can I go whatever... whatever home is? And Carleton's gone home! Peters has gone home! What about me?

Fiedler: The agreement was...

Alec Leamas: Agreement!... You've broken the bloody agreement and barring miracles my bloody neck too! The agreememnt was that I should be interrogated for two weeks in Holland, paid, and allowed to slip quietly back to England without anyone knowing. I'd have been away and nobody would have known if you haven't broken the story.

Fiedler: Just who the hell do you think you are? How dare you come sniffing in here like Napoleon ordering me about? You are a traitor! Does it occur to you? A wanted, spent, dishonest man, the lowest currency of the Cold War? We buy you - we sell you - we lose you - we even can shoot you! Not a bird would stir in the trees outside. Not even a single pheasant would turn his head to see what fell.

Fiedler: Innocent people die every day. They might as well do so for a reason.

Fiedler: Better men than Paul Roeder have cracked.