Robert Redford: Alexander Pierce
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Quotes
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Nick Fury : Why make me head of SHIELD?
Alexander Pierce : Because you're the best. And the most ruthless person I ever met.
Nick Fury : I did what I did to protect people.
Alexander Pierce : Our enemies are your enemies, Nick. Disorder, war. It's just a matter of time before a dirty bomb goes off in Moscow, or an EMP fries Chicago. Diplomacy? Holding action, a band-aid. And you know where I learned that; Bogota. You didn't ask, you just did what had to be done. I can bring order to the lives of seven billion people by sacrificing twenty million. It's the next step, Nick, if you have the courage to take it.
Nick Fury : No, I have the courage not to.
[Moves to the retinal scanner]
Alexander Pierce : You don't you think we wiped your clearance from the system?
Nick Fury : I know you erased my password. Probably deleted my retinal scan. But if you want to stay ahead of me, Mr. Secretary...
[removes his eye patch]
Nick Fury : ... you need to keep both eyes open.
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Alexander Pierce : See, I took a seat on the Council not because I wanted to, but because Nick asked me to, because we were both realists. We knew, that despite all diplomacy and the handshaking and the rhetoric, to build a better world sometimes means having to tear the old one down. And that makes enemies.
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[from trailer]
Alexander Pierce : Are you ready for the world to see you as you really are? Look out the window, you know how the game works: disorder, war, all it takes is one step.
Steve Rogers : I thought the punishment usually came AFTER the crime.
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Alexander Pierce : Let me ask you a question. What if Pakistan marched into Mumbai tomorrow, and you knew they were going to drag your daughter into a soccer stadium for execution, and you could stop it with a flick of a switch... wouldn't you?
Councilman Singh : Not if it's your switch.
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Alexander Pierce : [sees the Soldier in his dining room] Want some milk?
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Alexander Pierce : [his dying words] Hail HYDRA.
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Alexander Pierce : [to the Winter Soldier] Your work has been a gift to mankind. You shaped the century. And I need you to do it one more time...
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Nick Fury : Project Insight has to be delayed.
Alexander Pierce : Nick, that's not a favor, that's a sub-committee hearing. A long one.
Nick Fury : It could be nothing. It probably is nothing. I just need time to make sure it's nothing.
Alexander Pierce : But if it's something?
Nick Fury : Then we'll both be damn glad those helicarriers aren't in the air.
Alexander Pierce : Fine. But you got to get Iron Man to stop by my niece's birthday party.
Nick Fury : Thank you, sir.
Alexander Pierce : And not just a flyby. He's got to mingle.
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Alexander Pierce : [to Nick Fury] Did you get my flowers?
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Councilman Rockwell : [to Natasha who's on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s computer] What are you doing?
Alexander Pierce : She's disabling security protocols and dumping all the secrets onto the Internet.
Natasha Romanoff : Including HYDRA's.
Alexander Pierce : And S.H.I.E.L.D.'s. If you do this, none of your past is gonna remain hidden. Are you sure you're ready for the world to see you as you really are?
Natasha Romanoff : Are you?
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Alexander Pierce : I work forty floors away and it takes a hijacking for you to visit?
Nick Fury : Well, a nuclear war would do it too.
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Jasper Sitwell : [to the SHIELD agents] Eyes here.
[everyone, including Agent 13, looks at Sitwell]
Jasper Sitwell : Whatever your op is, bury it. This is Level One. Contact DOT. All traffic lights in the district go red. Shut all runways at BWI, IAD and Reagan. All security cameras in the city go through this monitor, right here. Scan all open sources. Phones, computers, PDAs, whatever. If someone tweets about this guy, I want to know about it.
Kate : With all due respect, If SHIELD is conducting a manhunt for Captain America, we deserve to know why.
Alexander Pierce : Because he lied to us.
[Pierce enters the room]
Alexander Pierce : Captain Rogers has information regarding the death of Director Fury. He refused to share it. As difficult as this is to accept, Captain America is a fugitive from SHIELD.
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Alexander Pierce : Nick Fury was murdered in cold blood. To any reasonable person, that would make him a martyr, not a traitor.
Councilman Rockwell : You know what makes him a traitor? Hiring a mercenary to hijack his own ship.
Councilman Singh : Nick Fury used your friendship to coerce this council into delaying Project Insight. A project he knew would expose his own illegal operations. At best, he lied to you. At worst...
Alexander Pierce : Are you calling for my resignation? I've got a pen and paper right here.
Councilwoman Hawley : That discussion can be tabled for a later time.
Alexander Pierce : But you do want to have a discussion.
Councilman Rockwell : We've already had it, Mr. Secretary. This council moves to immediately reactivate Project Insight. If you want to say something snappy, now would be a good time.
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Alexander Pierce : [Pierce watches from the window the commotion caused by Steve and Sam trying to stop the Helicarriers launching; he turns to Singh.] Let me ask you a question. What if Pakistan marched into Mumbai tomorrow, and you knew that they were gonna drag your daughters into a soccer stadium for execution?
[Pierce hands Singh a glass of champagne.]
Alexander Pierce : And you could just stop it with a flick of the switch. Wouldn't you? Wouldn't you all?
Councilman Singh : Not if it was your switch.
[singh tosses the glass aside.]
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Councilman Rockwell : [to Natasha who is on the computer] What are you doing?
Alexander Pierce : She's disabling security protocols and dumping all the secrets onto the Internet.
Natasha Romanoff : Including HYDRA's.
Alexander Pierce : And SHIELD's. If you do this, non of your past is gonna remain hidden.
[Natasha continues typing into the computer]
Alexander Pierce : Are you sure you're ready for the world to see you as you really are?
Natasha Romanoff : Are you?
