Quotes for
Bob Lee Swagger (Character)
from Shooter (2007/I)

Shooter (2007/I)

Bob Lee Swagger: You don't understand how serious this is. They killed my dog.

Bob Lee Swagger: Welcome to Tennessee, patriot state of shootin' stuff.

Sarah Fenn: What are you going to do?
Bob Lee Swagger: Exercise my right to bear arms.

Bob Lee Swagger: I'm going to find them, burn their playhouse down.

Bob Lee Swagger: They delivered me on a train, wrapped up like a present.

Bob Lee Swagger: There's going to be more shooting, more people are going to die. I didn't start it, but I mean to see it through.

Bob Lee Swagger: I got a plan, but I think I'm going to need your help.
Sarah Fenn: Ok. I'll do it.
Bob Lee Swagger: I haven't even told you what it is yet.
Sarah Fenn: I know.

Bob Lee Swagger: Where are we meeting?
Colonel Isaac Johnson: Somewhere where I can see you coming from a god damned long way off.

Colonel Isaac Johnson: Bob Lee Swagger, you're a hard man to find.
Bob Lee Swagger: Not hard enough.

[last lines]
Senator Charles F. Meachum: Are you out of your mind? Are you out of your damn mind? I am a United States Senator!
Bob Lee Swagger: Exactly.

Bob Lee Swagger: I don't think you understand - these people killed my dog.

Senator Charles F. Meachum: You got any plans after this? You have a rather unique skill set. I'd be interested in offering you a job.
Bob Lee Swagger: Work? For you?
Senator Charles F. Meachum: It's not really as bad as it seems. It's all gonna be done in any case. You might as well be on the side that gets you well paid for your efforts.
Nick Memphis: And what side are you on?
Senator Charles F. Meachum: There are no sides. There's no Sunnis and Shiites. There's no Democrats and Republicans. There's only HAVES and HAVE-NOTS.

Colonel Isaac Johnson: I won. You lost. Get used to the idea, son.
Bob Lee Swagger: I'm not your son.

Nick Memphis: I didn't know you had a woman.
Bob Lee Swagger: Neither did I... until they took her.

[first lines]
Donnie Fenn: Movement. Two men. Approximately... forty goats.
Bob Lee Swagger: They're not on anybody's side. We don't have to shoot them.

Bob Lee Swagger: I don't really like the President much. Didn't like the one before that, much, either.
Colonel Isaac Johnson: You like the idea of the President, living in a free country. Do we allow America to be ruled by thugs?
Bob Lee Swagger: Sure, some years we do.

Louis Dobbler: You can kill him from that far away?
Bob Lee Swagger: At a mile and a half the bullet's gonna strike with more energy than a .44 magnum, point blank. Yeah, I think you can kill him.

Bob Lee Swagger: Suppose I was looking for man who could make a 2200 yard cold bore shot, who's alive that could do that?
Mr. Rate: Seems I heard about a shot like that being made not too long ago, said the guy's name was Bob Lee Swagger. Never met him my end, so I wouldn't know.
Bob Lee Swagger: Ya, they said that alright.
Mr. Rate: They also said that artificial sweeteners were safe, WMDs were in Iraq and Anna Nicole married for love.

Jack Payne: You know what they say is the first thing that a man feels when he shoots a civilian?
Bob Lee Swagger: The recoil of the rifle?
Jack Payne: [snickers] Yeah.
Bob Lee Swagger: Very original.

Bob Lee Swagger: I'm just a peckerwood who lives in the hills with too many guns

Sarah Fenn: [checking his bandages] There's something I need to tell you. Ralphie's dead.
Bob Lee Swagger: Who's Ralphie?
Sarah Fenn: They said on the news that you shot your dog because you knew you weren't coming back. I'm sorry.

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