Jack Morgan - State Department Analyst Quotes in Salvador (1986)

Jack Morgan - State Department Analyst: You know I'm often asked by people like yourself to examine my conscience and every now and then I do examine it.

Richard Boyle: And what do you find there, Jack?

Jack Morgan - State Department Analyst: That whatever mistakes we make down here, the alternative would be ten times worse!

Jack Morgan - State Department Analyst: Do you want to go down in the history books as the man who lost El Salvador?

Ambassador Thomas Kelly: That's hardly the issue here! We're talking about human lives here! We're not playing some computer game! Jesus, history books? God!

Jack Morgan - State Department Analyst: Hey, Boyle. I thought you were dead!

Richard Boyle: Well, it takes more than wishing.