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Nasser Faris: Mullah Fayad

Quotes 

• Mullah Fayad : What are you offering?

  Tom Kirkman : To begin with, money and logistical support.

  Mullah Fayad : I've been offered these things before. There's water in the well, but it quickly runs dry. There's an old Pashtun proverb: it's the same donkey, but with a new saddle.

  Tom Kirkman : [he laughs]  There is an American proverb: those who fail to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.

• Mullah Fayad : You dismiss the past. My family has lived in the same village for 800 years. This country is rooted in tradition.

  Tom Kirkman : With all due respect, sir, you're wrong. I have great respect for your country's history and its traditions.

  Mullah Fayad : Then why did you meet with someone who has no respect for them?

  Tom Kirkman : Mullah Bahri.

  Mullah Fayad : An infidel and a liar. Now, how can I find common ground with someone who consorts with a man like that?

  Tom Kirkman : Would you not agree if one is to play the game, it is important to know all the player?

  Mullah Fayad : Perhaps. But the fact that you treat him as my equal says much about you. To be honest, I'm not sure I can trust you.

  Tom Kirkman : I appreciate your forwardness, and can only hope that some day soon, we can remedy that.

• Mullah Fayad : Bahri is a liar!

  Tom Kirkman : Not about your country's shortage of hydrogen peroxide, or Thamin Chemicals, a shell company that you own, which these articles of incorporation prove.

  Mullah Fayad : I own many things.

  Tom Kirkman : Except this thing is used to manufacture the raw materials to make bombs that are killing American soldiers.

  Mullah Fayad : We manufacture this chemical for medical purposes. I did not kidnap Mr. Dean. I did not bomb the market.

  Tom Kirkman : If you are lying to me... I promise you, we will hunt you down.

  Mullah Fayad : We all die, Mr. President. But I didn't meet with you to talk about death. I met with you to talk about life. But if you call me a liar, then I have an enemy; the same enemy I have always had.

• Mullah Fayad : Thank you for the sugar, Mr. President.

  Tom Kirkman : The more sugar, the more honor. And you are a man deserving of much.

  Mullah Fayad : As are you.

  Tom Kirkman : I was hoping that we could strike a deal that would be honorable to both of us. This cycle of violence must stop.

  Mullah Fayad : It will, if your soldiers leave my country.

  Tom Kirkman : If you were to expel the terrorists that have planted their flags here and closed the madrasas that teach your children to hate America, we would glady do just that.