Powell Quotes in National Treasure (2004)

Powell: [referring to the underground staircase] How do a bunch of guys with hand tools build all this?

Ben Gates: Same way they built the pyramids - and the Great Wall of China.

Riley Poole: Yeah... the aliens helped them.

Powell: Look... this is a waste of time. How could a ship wind up way out here?

Riley Poole: Well, I'm no expert but... it could be that the hydrothermic properties of this region produce hurricane-force ice storms that cause the ocean to freeze and then melt and then refreeze, resulting in a semisolid migrating land mass that would land a ship right around here.

[walks away]

[as they walk through the tunnel, Ben lets the others pass to make sure everyone is all right. When Abigail passes him, he grabs her arm]

Ben Gates: Come here!

[They kiss]

Powell: Why does that never happen with me?

Powell: What's your name?

Cable Hogue: Cable Hogue.

Powell: C-A-B... L-E or E-L? How do you spell Cable?

Cable Hogue: Well, if you're bogging down on Cable, wait till you get to Hogue.