William Harper Quotes in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)

Jack Ryan: [to Harper, while arguing with Cathy] Can we have a... a-a-a minute, please ?

William Harper: No, you can't.

Cathy Muller: I would like to talk to Jack alone.

William Harper: This is geopolitics. It's not couples therapy.

William Harper: [to Jack] You're not just an analyst anymore. You're operational now.

William Harper: [waiting to see the president] Any way you can get that boy-scout-on-a-field-trip look off your face?

Jack Ryan: [big smile] Not a chance.

William Harper: That's what I like about you.

Jack Ryan: Jesus, you weren't kidding. You *are* in the CIA.

William Harper: Somebody has to be.

William Harper: I want to send you back to school to finish your doctorate, then you'll join financial intelligence as an analyst. You'll work in a series of private banks on Wall Street while you'll use your position to uncover funding for terror groups.

Jack Ryan: Covertly.

William Harper: Yep. So, you have to keep it to yourself. Your employers won't know you work for us; the people you love won't know you do, either. It's gonna get lonely but... it's how we like to do things.