- Jack Ryan: [to Harper, while arguing with Cathy] Can we have a... a-a-a minute, please ?
- William Harper: No, you can't.
- Cathy Muller: I would like to talk to Jack alone.
- William Harper: This is geopolitics. It's not couples therapy.
- Viktor Cherevin: You Americans like to think of yourselves as direct, but I wonder if perhaps you are just rude.
- Jack Ryan: You Russians think of yourselves as poets but perhaps you're just touchy.
- Jack Ryan: [collapsing on his crutches] I don't like you very much, doctor.
- Cathy Muller: I'm not a doctor. I'm a 3rd-year med student who is four credits short in P.T. until you decide to walk.
- Viktor Cherevin: [In Russian] It was always for Russia.
- The Minister Sorokin: So is this.
- [He shoots Viktor]
- William Harper: [waiting to see the president] Any way you can get that boy-scout-on-a-field-trip look off your face?
- Jack Ryan: [big smile] Not a chance.
- William Harper: That's what I like about you.
- Jack Ryan: Do you know what happened three years ago today?
- Cathy Muller: You agreed to stop wearing cargo shorts?
- CIA Operator: Remember your tradecraft and you'll be fine.
- William Harper: I want to send you back to school to finish your doctorate, then you'll join financial intelligence as an analyst. You'll work in a series of private banks on Wall Street while you'll use your position to uncover funding for terror groups.
- Jack Ryan: Covertly.
- William Harper: Yep. So, you have to keep it to yourself. Your employers won't know you work for us; the people you love won't know you do, either. It's gonna get lonely but... it's how we like to do things.