- [to Angela]
- Antara Nayar: A guy walks up to a woman at a bar. He flirts with her. He makes small talk, but the woman insists she isn't gonna go home with him. Guy says, "What if I offer you $1 million to sleep with me?" The woman's never had a million dollars in her life. She stops and considers the offer very seriously. The guy changes his mind, says, "What if I change my offer to a dollar instead?" Woman is aghast. "What kind of woman do you think I am?" Guy says, "We already figured that out. Now we're just negotiating."
- [as narrator]
- Elliot Alderson: When you look closely at the seams between order and chaos, do you see the same things I see? The strain, the tears, the glimpses of truth hidden underneath. Why do they fight so desperately to mask what they are? Or is it that they become who they are when they put on the mask? Sometimes I wonder what you hide behind, my silent friend. What mask do you wear? Or are you just as afraid as the rest of them? Me? Am I afraid? Nah, man. I'm different.
- Ray: You a dog person?
- Elliot Alderson: Used to have one.
- Ray: Oh, yeah? What happened to it?
- Elliot Alderson: Don't have her anymore.
- [last lines]
- Elliot Alderson: Hello?
- Tyrell Wellick: Is it really you?
- Elliot Alderson: Who is this?
- Tyrell Wellick: [laughing] Bonsoir, Elliot.
- Elliot: When you look closely at the seams between order and chaos, do you see the same things I see: strain, tears, glimpses of truth hiding underneath? Why do they fight so desperately to mask what they are? Or is it that they become who they are when they put on the mask? Sometimes I wonder what you hide under my silent grin. What mask do you wear? Or are you as afraid as the rest of them? Me? Am I afraid? No man. I am different.
- Phillip Price: If I resign, then any scrap of confidence the public is already clinging onto will be destroyed, and we all know a con doesn't work without the confidence. If this was the best idea you could come up with for a win, I shouldn't be the one resigning. I have to head back to New York. Let me know when you've locked up the votes,
- [to the guy next to him]
- Phillip Price: and wipe your goddamn mouth.
- Phillip Price: In the fallout of the Great Depression, FTR closed all the banks for a bank holiday and then he reopened them in stages when they were reported to being sound. Later, historians discovered what we in this room now know; that those reports, they are mostly lies. Nevertheless, it worked, it worked because the public believed the government had everything under control. You see? That is the business model for this great nation of ours. Every business day when our market bells ring, we con people to believing in something: The American Dream, family values... ; could be freedom fries for all I care. It doesn't matter! As long as the con works and people buy, sell whatever it is that we want them to.
- Phillip Price: We con people into believing in something, the American dream, family values. Could be freedom fries for all I care. It doesn't matter as long as the con works and people buy and sell whatever it is we want them to.
- Ruth: Did you just hang up on Bloomberg? Are you trying to get fired?
- Angela Moss: Leave.
- Ruth: [scoffs] When Melissa finds out...
- Angela Moss: Get her. Go ahead and get her, tell her whatever you want, but right now get out of my fucking cubicle.