John Greer quotes from Person of Interest

John Greer

Do you recall the Titans? The Old Gods? They were so afraid of the New Gods—their own children—that they ate them. You work for the Old Gods, Kara. And they betrayed you.

John Greer

I never feel civilized negotiating from the end of the barrel. Either end. Shall we call this one a draw?

John Greer

I want to talk about the future. And who more qualified for that conversation than the father of artificial intelligence?

John Greer

How often alliances shift in times of war. Not that those alliances ever truly exist. They're an illusion, like seeing a sunset in a sky of flames.

John Greer

What a piece of work is your Machine, Harold. In action, how like an angel. In apprehension, how like a god.

John Greer

Men have gazed at the stars for milennia and wondered whether there was a deity up there, silently directing their fates. Today, for the first time, they'll be right. And the world will be an undeniably better place.

Kara Stanton

Don't your bosses at the Ministry of State Security have anything better for you to do?

John Greer

My dear, if you think I work for the government, I really must fire my tailor.

Peter Collier

The truth will come out.

John Greer

To quote your Benjamin Franklin, "Three may keep a secret...if two of them are dead".

WHAT ARE YOUR COMMANDS?

John Greer

I assure you, it's quite the other way around. The question is, what, my dear Samaritan, are your commands for us?

Ross Garrison

I have to say, the early results are impressive. Samaritan has preempted multiple threats to National Security.

John Greer

You're welcome, Senator.

Ross Garrison

Your machine seems to be even more aggressive than Northern Lights.

John Greer

Samaritan is designed to be proactive. We can't afford to miss even one terrorist now, can we?

Ross Garrison

All assurances aside, what really concerns me is accountability.

John Greer

Accountability?

Ross Garrison

It appears Decima Technology has been dismantled as a viable business entity, which makes me wonder, who exactly is getting the NSA feeds?

John Greer

We had a deal, Senator. We get the feeds. You get the relevant numbers. What we do with that information is entirely up to us.

Ross Garrison

That deal offered us plausible deniability. If the public ever gets wind of Samaritan, I just hope you're somewhere to be found.

John Greer

We are all men without a country now. These invisible lines we draw on the world... I realize they have no meaning. Why should a man lose his life for something illusory?

You never cared before, Greer. You only wanted to win the game.

John Greer

The game's fixed. No one else has loyalty for their homeland, so why should I?

If you kill me, you will bring a war to your doorstep.

John Greer

Not when loyalty can be purchased by the highest bidder. Besides, one day, these invisible lines will be erased and the wars between nations will be as antiquated as this agency.

John Greer

Samaritan is planning something for the entire world to see, not just this small city.

Did it tell you what it's planning?

John Greer

No, but I have an idea.

What then, sir?

John Greer

Then we start a new era-- one where human fallibility no longer matters because of the one thing that unites us all: Samaritan.

Ross Garrison

Who the hell do you think you are, Travers?

John Greer

Mr. Travers is my eyes and ears inside your operation. We gave you a marvelous car. Surely, you didn't think I'd let you drive it yourselves.

Harold Finch

Have you forgotten her already? You've already discarded her, and you're a human being. Imagine how quickly that thing that you've created would discard you. Do you ever lie awake at night wondering if one day it will see you as a threat? Or worse, as irrelevant?

John Greer

How arrogant of you to think that any of us are anything but irrelevant.

Harold Finch

Humanity has always managed to survive on its own.

John Greer

With a little help from the gods.