The Americans

Philip Jennings:
The painters want to know whether you prefer egg or ivory in the wainscoting in the outer office.

Elizabeth Jennings:
What's the difference?

Philip Jennings:
The color.

Martha Hanson:
I met a man named Walter Taffet yesterday.

Philip Jennings:
Who's he?

Martha Hanson:
[after a sober pause] Well, he's you.

Philip Jennings:
[Shocked, trying to regain his composure] I...

Martha Hanson:
[On the verge of tears] They found the pen... Who are you?

Philip Jennings:
[about Paige, after she's returned from a trip with her Christian group to an anti-nuclear demonstration] If she said one more thing about nonviolent resistance, I was gonna punch her in the face.

Hans:
You can live without wants, but you can't live without needs. The society is very focused on wants.

Elizabeth Jennings:
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Claudia:
[while giving a steely smile to Elizabeth over breakfast] I know you better than you know yourself, but you don't know me at all.

Mossad Agent:
Back home, we live on a kibbutz. My kids eat in a communal hall. My wife works in the fields with other wives. You like communism? Come to Israel; it works much better there.

Anton Baklanov:
You gonna kill me? I have a right to know.

Philip Jennings:
I'm not gonna kill you.

Anton Baklanov:
You want me to work for you?

Philip Jennings:
Not for me.

Anton Baklanov:
No, of course. You... you're just obeying orders. Like Eichmann. You gonna send me back to Russia, is that it? Listen: I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll be of no use there; I'll, uh... how can I work in a place I've spent my life trying to escape? My wife, my son? Do you think I am going to work five thousand miles away from my family?

Philip Jennings:
You're adaptable. You've proven that much.

Anton Baklanov:
Let me work for you from here. I have my lab, my resources. I'll give you things your government hasn't even dreamed of. ECM - do you know what that means? Electronic countermeasures: radar, infrared, lasers, they can all be deceived - I can give this to you. I'll put you on the ARPANET; this you don't have in the Soviet Union. Please? Don't send me back there. Don't send me back, please! I don't want to go back, please! Please don't send me back! [breaks down] Please!

Anton Baklanov:
You have a family? My son's bar mitzvah is in three months. Give me that. Three months. Let his father stand with him for his coming of age. Please! He'll think I died, and never know. [Crying] At least look at me! Please! You're a monster! You're not a man! Whatever you once were, whoever you were, they trained it out of you. No feeling, no humanity - you may as well be dead.