24 quotes

Don't make this any harder than it already is. Kneel.

Buchanan

We have to do better than we're doing, and we have to do it faster!

Bill Buchanan

Curtis didn't leave you any choice.

Jack Bauer

That's what I keep trying to tell myself.

It's Liddy. You won't believe who just called here.

Who?

Your brother Jack.

What are you talking about? Jack's rotting away in some Chinese prison.

No, actually he's here in L.A.

How the hell did that happen?

I don't know.

What's he want?

He's looking for the old man.

Yeah? Why?

He didn't say. But if I were you, I'd expect a call from Jack. Your name came up.

Damn it. We should have killed Jack when we had the chance instead of handing him over to the Chinese.

We tried.

This isn't good. My brother has a way of digging things up that need to stay buried.

If Jack Bauer says it's a dead end, then it's a dead end.

Jack Bauer

Damn it!

Jack

Say hello to your brother.

Damn, Jack.

You're cursed, Jack. Everything you touch, one way or another, ends up dead.

Jack Bauer

The difference between success and failure is your ability to adapt to your enemy. The people that I deal with, they don't care about your rules. All they care about is a result.

Jack Bauer

I am more than willing to be judged by the people you claim to represent. I will let them decide what price I should pay. But please do not sit there with that smug look on your face and expect me to regret the decisions I have made. Because, sir, the truth is . . . I don't.

You do know you could hire a $14-an-hour data-applications geek to do this work?

I wouldn't advertise that.

This morning at the hearing you said you had no regrets, but what I saw was a man full of regret.

Jack

Of course I have regret, Senator. I regret losing my family. My wife was murdered because I was responsible for protecting David Palmer during the assassination attempt. My daughter can't even look at me. Every day I regret looking into the eyes of men, women and children knowing that any moment their lives may be deemed expendable in an effort to protect the greater good. I regret every decision and mistake I might have made that resulted in the loss of an innocent life. But you know what I regret the most? That this world even needs people like me.

You think I'm naïve to think that we need to hold ourselves to a higher standard of conduct?

Jack

It doesn't even matter what I think, Senator. You just need to understand that where I work things get a lot messier than where you work on the Hill.

What you've lost, Mr. Bauer, is tragic. What you've been through compelled to do in the name of saving innocent life is tragic. But sometimes we need to incur the most horrible losses in order to uphold the ideals that this country was founded on. How can we presume to lead the world unless we set an example?

Jack

You make it sound so simple.

Well, maybe it's simpler than you think. Maybe all the things that you've seen and all the things that you've done have clouded your vision.

Tony

What the hell are you doing? Don't do it, Jack. Don't turn a surveillance job into a firefight; it'll be two against ten!

Jack

Two against nine.

Teri

Jack?

Jack

Oh. Sweetheart, we already talked about this, remember? You're supposed to call me Grandpa.

Teri

You don't look like a grandpa.

Jack

'Couldn't agree with you more.