Syriana (2005)

Robert Foxworth: Tommy Barton

Quotes 

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  Tommy Barton : I don't tend to focus on these kind of details.

• Tommy Barton : This is the oil business we're talking about, right?

• Jimmy Pope : No, I wanna talk about the Gulf and how a goddamn Emir... What is an Emir, anyway?

  Tommy Barton : King, it's a king.

  Jimmy Pope : Well, how some Podunk king tossed you out on your ass! Every company in the world wanted into Kazakhstan, into the Tengiz, but Killen got it. And then Connex wanted Killen, and here we are. I made investments. Investments that'll bear fruit for this company. Hell, Tommy we've all got the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act committed to memory. I got a little copy of it taped to the wall of my head. Right here.