Hani Quotes in Body of Lies (2008)

Roger Ferris: Hani Pasha

Hani: Pasha? That is an Ottoman term.

Roger Ferris: I hear you like it sir.

Hani: You know you can always tell who cares about you the most by who comes first to visit you in the hospital.

Hani: Urgency does not call for changing methods that work for methods that do not work.

Roger Ferris: I thought you didn't believe in torture, Hani Pasha.

Hani: This is punishment, my dear. It's a very different thing.

Hani: You Americans, you are incapable of secrecy because you are a democracy.

Hani: Urgency does not call for changing methods that work, for methods that do not work.

Ed Hoffman: Now who pays the bills around here? I would hate to have to have my president call your king, because it's just gonna be embarrassing for all of us.

Hani: Watch and learn, my dear. Watch and learn.

Hani: This is unusual. Your Ed Hoffman would rather have less information than share what he has with me.

Hani: What have you heard about this building?

Roger Ferris: Well to be quite honest, I hear they call it the, uh, fingernail factory.

Hani: Torture, it does not work. Under torture, a man will say almost anything to make the pain stop.

Roger Ferris: So she doesn't know anything about what happened?

Hani: She knows what everybody who knows me knows.

Hani: That I am an exceedingly polite gentleman and a very good conversationalist.

Hani: And so we throw him back into the sea to swim where he naturally swims, to learn what he naturally learns. We'll see how long he remembers my benevolence.

Roger Ferris: What if he forgets?

Hani: If he forgets, I remind him that I have the power of life and death over him. Because you see, any time I wish, I can let them know he works for me.

Hani: What they really want is all of Palestine. And without Palestinians. That is why we must resist. Until they understand there is no future for them without one for us.

Hani: [referring to conflict] Miral, this road is too bloody. It has no exit.