Justice League Unlimited, Season 3

Amanda Waller:
Wade. You know better than to dwell on the past.

General Wade Eiling:
I'm talking about right now. The Justice League is still the single greatest threat to global security.

Amanda Waller:
I used to believe that too. But remember: we used to say the same about the Soviets. Our enemies are never as evil as we imagine... and maybe we're never quite as good.

General Wade Eiling:
Nuts. Don't tell me the bleeding hearts in Congress got to you.

Amanda Waller:
I'd eat them alive.

General Wade Eiling:
You would too. You've got some onions, Amanda.

Amanda Waller:
Then listen to me. I'm not the League's greatest fan, but their intentions are good. I can work with them.

General Wade Eiling:
What if you're wrong, though? Turns out the metahumans aren't on the side of the angels? We won't have any way to defend ourselves. Look what happened last year: Superman walked into Cadmus and tossed our best men like a salad.

Amanda Waller:
Oh, for heaven's sake.

General Wade Eiling:
What's to stop him from doing it again? They're all orbiting us with a space weapon, supposedly decommissioned. That's a much bigger threat than the Russians ever were. If we'd rolled over like this with the Soviet Union, given up our nukes-

Amanda Waller:
We'd all be living under a red flag?

General Wade Eiling:
Yes, ma'am, you'd better believe it. After all our work, what did Cadmus accomplish? You get a reprimand, I'm pushing pencils, and the League gets another base here on Earth, that Metro Tower. When one side loses ground and the other side gains, that isn't a truce - it's a surrender!

Amanda Waller:
It's a different world, General. Learn to live in it.