The Sum of All Fears (2002)

Ciarán Hinds: President Nemerov

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• President Nemerov : [referring to his defectors]  Just disappear them. Their execution would tell the world I didn't have control. These days, better to appear guilty than impotent.

• President Nemerov : For you to get involved here, its like sleeping with another mans wife... and what you are suggesting is that afterwards they all live together under the same roof... but what really happens is that the betrayed husband goes out and buys a gun.

• [after an unpleasant silence, after Jack unintentionally and indirectly insulted Nemerov] 

  President Nemerov : [to Cabot, about Ryan]  I like him.

  Bill Cabot : In that case, so do I.

• President Nemerov : [to his aids and advisors]  I can't stop what I did not start.

• [over the Hot Line, after the carrier attack] 

  President Nemerov : [in Russian]  I ordered no such attack. You must not respond to this action until we have investigated all possibilities.

  President Fowler : Like you did in Chechnya? Mr. President, who is in control of your armed forces?

  President Nemerov : [in Russian]  You dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. You dropped the bomb on Nagasaki. Do not lecture me on Chechnya!

• Nemerov's Aide : [conversing in Russian]  Mr. President... there's been a nuclear explosion in America. You must come with us now.

  President Nemerov : [getting out of bed]  What?

  Nemerov's Aide : We don't know who or how. But it wasn't us.

  President Nemerov : After Grozny... you hope it wasn't us.

  Nemerov's Aide : We are drafting a strong denial for you.

  President Nemerov : And a statement of sympathy. And Yuri... order all military on the alert.

• NAOC Hotline Operator : Oh my God... Mr. President!

  [Fowler looks at the screen] 

  President Nemerov : [Over the hotline]  On my order, Russian strategic forces are standing down.

• President Nemerov : [after signing the treaty]  Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.

• President Nemerov : What is it you want of me?

  Jack : Back down.

• President Nemerov : [conversing in Russian, after claiming responsibility for an attack on Chechnya]  Who did it?

  Anatoli Grushkov : General Pildysh, General Mitkin. Unhappy old Communists.

  President Nemerov : Bastards. Relieve them of command.

  Anatoli Grushkov : I will shoot them myself.

• President Nemerov : First, let me apologize for interjecting myself into your inspection tour. But there is a message I wish for you to take back to President Fowler.

  Bill Cabot : Well, you could just call him on the phone.

  President Nemerov : I would like him to hear it from you, his friend of many years who received it personally from me, saw my expression and the language of my body as I spoke it.

  Bill Cabot : I understand.

  President Nemerov : Chechnya is an internal affair. What we do there should be none of your concern.

  Bill Cabot : I will relay the message, but I don't think he will agree.

  President Nemerov : There are those in my country who will use this issue to weaken me.

  Bill Cabot : There are those in my country who say your war in Chechnya is exactly your weakness.

  President Nemerov : Chechnya is a nation of criminals. Every day brings another cowardly attack on innocent Russian citizens. It is none of your concern.

  Bill Cabot : Stability is our concern. Peace in Chechnya is our concern. And, if I may speak frankly, your control over your military concerns us, too.

• President Nemerov : [hearing Fowler's statement after the bomb attack]  He's fishing. Send our reply.

  Becker : [on Air Force One]  Whoa! That was a little fast.

  NAOC Hotline Operator : "Please accept the deepest sympathies of the Russian people. If it was deliberate, this is a crime without precedent. What madman would do such a thing? And for what purpose? You must believe that Russia had nothing to do with this infamous act."

  Becker : It's canned. They prepared that in advance.

• President Nemerov : Ochen pryatna.