Justice League Unlimited (TV Series)

Patriot Act (2006)

CCH Pounder: Amanda Waller, Elderly Woman

Quotes 

• General Wade Eiling : [picking up a car to smash Shining Knight]  Superman and your Justice League are a threat to a safe and stable world.

  Elderly Woman : [Standing inbetween Shinning Knight and Eiling]  Drop the act. You think killing Superman would make the world safe? Or killing this boy? Or us? Tell me, how many of us do you have to kill to keep us safe?

  General Wade Eiling : They're the ones I'm after, not you. I'm not the menace, Metahumans are! Superpowered beings.

  Johnny : You're the only one around here with super powers!

  [Eiling stops, dropping the car] 

  General Wade Eiling : ...All right, I've become what I hate, I'll give you that. But in the long run, you'll see I was right. You'll see you need the likes of me to protect you from them.

• Amanda Waller : You look well. General. Past few months have been good to you.

  General Wade Eiling : Mrs. Waller, all due respect, this reassignment is a joke. Never thought I'd become a desk drone.

  Amanda Waller : I can't help you there. Langley all but scrapped Project Cadmus and insisted on your transfer. We're lucky we're not all in jail.

  General Wade Eiling : Look, the only mistake we made was trusting Luthor.

  Amanda Waller : Wade. You know better than to dwell on the past.

  General Wade Eiling : I'm talking about right now. The Justice League is still the single greatest threat to global security.

  Amanda Waller : I used to believe that too. But remember: we used to say the same about the Soviets. Our enemies are never as evil as we imagine... and maybe we're never quite as good.

  General Wade Eiling : Nuts. Don't tell me the bleeding hearts in Congress got to you.

  Amanda Waller : I'd eat them alive.

  General Wade Eiling : You would too. You've got some onions, Amanda.

  Amanda Waller : Then listen to me. I'm not the League's greatest fan, but their intentions are good. I can work with them.

  General Wade Eiling : What if you're wrong, though? Turns out the metahumans aren't on the side of the angels? We won't have any way to defend ourselves. Look what happened last year: Superman walked into Cadmus and tossed our best men like a salad.

  Amanda Waller : Oh, for heaven's sake.

  General Wade Eiling : What's to stop him from doing it again? They're all orbiting us with a space weapon, supposedly decommissioned. That's a much bigger threat than the Russians ever were. If we'd rolled over like this with the Soviet Union, given up our nukes...

  Amanda Waller : We'd all be living under a red flag?

  General Wade Eiling : Yes, ma'am, you'd better believe it. After all our work, what did Cadmus accomplish? You get a reprimand, I'm pushing pencils, and the League gets another base here on Earth, that Metro Tower. When one side loses ground and the other side gains, that isn't a truce - it's a surrender!

  Amanda Waller : It's a different world, General. Learn to live in it.

• Shining Knight : Hold.

  [to elderly woman] 

  Shining Knight : I have yet to thank you.

  Elderly Woman : No need to thank me, son. You just get better. World still needs protectin', you know.