Other Titles • Traffic • Traffik (1999) • Traffic - Die Macht des Kartells (2001)
Quotes from Traffic (2000)
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Eduardo Ruiz: In Mexico, law enforcement is an entrepreneurial activity.
(15 votes)
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Robert Wakefield: If there is a war on drugs, then many of our family members are the enemy. And I don't know how you wage war on your own family.
(15 votes)
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Ray Castro: Hey sugarfoot! How do you like your new place? [Agents Laugh] Eduardo Ruiz: This is not what my lawyers negotiated. Montel Gordon: Fuck your lawyers. You aren't getting any cappuccino or Biscotti either. You don't like it, call 1-800-CRIMINAL. [Agents Laugh]
(14 votes)
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Helena Ayala: Not *in*; the doll *is* cocaine.
(14 votes)
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Caroline Wakefield: Is this like freebasing? Seth Abrahams: Not like. It is.
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Javier Rodriguez: You like baseball? We need lights for the parks, so kids can play at night. So they can play baseball. So they don't become burros para los malones. Everyone likes baseball. Everyone likes parks.
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Helena Ayala: Now get out of the car and shoot him in the head!
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Eduardo Ruiz: This is coercion. Montel Gordon: Coercion. That's a pretty big word for a fisherman. Ray Castro: Big-ass word. Eduardo Ruiz: Oh, yeah? I know another big word: immunity.
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General Ralph Landry: You know, when they forced Khruschev out, he sat down and wrote two letters to his successor. He said - "When you get yourself into a situation you can't get out of, open the first letter, and you'll be safe. When you get yourself into another situation you can't get out of, open the second letter". Soon enough, he gets into a tight situation, and he opens the first letter. It says - "Blame it all on me". So he blames it all on the old guy, and it worked like a charm. When he got himself into a second situation, he opened the second letter. It said - "Sit down, and write two letters".
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Robert Wakefield: I can't believe you brought my daughter to this place. Seth Abrahams: Woah. Why don't you just back the fuck up, man. "To this place"? What is that shit? Ok, right now, all over this great nation of ours, 'hundred thousand white people from the suburbs are cruisin' around downtown asking every black person they see "You got any drugs? You know where I can score some drugs?" *Think* about the effect that that has on the psyche of a black person, on their possibilities. I... God I guarantee you bring a hundred thousand black people into your neighborhood, into fuckin' Indian Hills, and they're asking every white person they see "You got any drugs? You know where I can score some drugs?", within a *day* everyone would be selling. Your friends. Their kids. Here's why: it's an unbeatable market force man. It's a three-hundred percent markup value. You can go out on the street and make five-hundred dollars in two hours, come back and do whatever you want to do with the rest of your day and, I'm sorry, you're telling me that... you're telling me that white people would still be going to law school?
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Ray Castro: They talk like they're conspiring to conspire.
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[In Spanish] Salazar Soldier: How did you know? Javier Rodriguez: A little bird told me. Salazar Soldier: What is the name of your little bird? Javier Rodriguez: It doesn't have a name. Salazar Soldier: Doesn't have a name? I hate the fucking anonymous ones!
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[Ray Castro is smoking] Montel Gordon: You should really try a patch. Ray Castro: Oh man, that shit doesn't work. Montel Gordon: It worked for my cousin. Ray Castro: Yeah? Montel Gordon: Well he had to wear about 6 at a time, but it worked. Ray Castro: So how is he now? Montel Gordon: Oh he's dead. Ray Castro: He's dead? Montel Gordon: It wasn't because of the patch, man. Ray Castro: So how did he die? Montel Gordon: His wife shot him.
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Ray Castro: I have actually dreamed about this, about busting the top people, the rich people, WHITE people!
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Eduardo Ruiz: You guys remind me of Japanese soldiers on deserted islands who still think world war two is still going on. The fact is that your government surrendered this war a long fucking time ago. Montel Gordon: You know, I don't think this attitude is gonna help him in front of the judge. Eduardo, there is just one thing wrong with this math. You're in here.
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Ray Castro: Why are hurricanes named after women? Because when they arrive, they're wet and wild, and when they leave they take your house and your car.
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Robert Wakefield: What's Washington like? Well its like Calcutta, surrounded by beggars. The only difference is the beggars in Washington wear 1500 dollar suits and they don't say please or thank you.
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Javier Rodriquez: You worry about getting me what I want, I'll worry about myself.
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Chief of Staff: [to Robert Wakefield] There are a lot of interests in this town. FBI, CIA, DEA, ATF, IRS. Right now they're scared of you.
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DEA Agent: Javier, you should feel good about this. Javier Rodriguez: I feel like a traitor.
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Caroline Wakefield: On the good days, I feel like I get it, like it all makes sense. I can stay in the moment, I don't have to control everything in the future, and I believe everything is gonna work out fine. On the bad days I just want to grab the phone and start dialing numbers. I want to pull my hair and run through the streets screaming. But thanks to the people I've met in these rooms, like Margaret and Jim and Sarah, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna make it through today.
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Montel Gordon: I lost my virginity when I was 16 on a beach just like that. Ray Castro: Cool, man. He treat you good?
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Caroline Wakefield: Fuck you. I wasn't doing anything. You're like the Gestapo.
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Robert Wakefield: My name is Robert. And my wife, Barbara and I are here to support our daughter Caroline. And we're here to listen.
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Helena Ayala: I'm on the board of my son's school, I have fundraisers for adult literacy at my own home. I think I have a right to know if my husband is a legitimate business man.
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[Interrogating Frankie Flowers] General Salazar: They say in Latin, "In vino veritas". Wine tells the truth. Use this to write down the addresses of those bastards who killed my captains. And not where they were last week but where they are *now*, where they are this minute, and better yet, where they are going to be tomorrow. You know where they are going to be tomorrow, right?
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Robert Wakefield: What are your policies towards treatment of addiction? General Salazar: Treatment of addiction? Addicts treat themselves. They overdose and then there's one less to worry about.
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[Carlos has just had Arnie killed] Helena Ayala: Who was on the phone? Carlos Ayala: Oh that was Arnie. He won't be able to make it to the barbeque.
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Seth Abrahams: I want to have sex and then do a hit right as we're both cumming. Caroline Wakefield: Ok.
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[Robert Wakefield has offered the drug dealer a bribe for information about his missing daughter] Drug Dealer: Who in the FUCK do you think you are? Where the fuck do you think you are, and why the fuck don't I just put your ass in a dumpster? Robert Wakefield: [Shaking, scared] ... I... I got money... Drug Dealer: [Infuriated] I got money! Robert Wakefield: I've got a thousand dollars in my pocket; it's for you. Drug Dealer: If I want your money man, I will TAKE your money!
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