Tom Kirkman Quotes

If everybody is so afraid of losing, how on earth can anyone ever win?

Without truth, there can be no trust.

Doing the right thing doesn’t always make you feel good.

We’re not defined by our difficulties. We’re defined by how we respond to them.

Your problem wasn’t my scruples. It was your lack of them.[to Alton]

If you do this long enough, you’ll realize you don’t really know anyone.

You think I don’t want to strike back against the people who did this? I lost colleagues, friends, people I love. I want to find every single person involved in this attack from planning to execution and rip them limb from limb, which is why I need to know exactly who did this. Come back to me with more than 75%, and I’ll launch the damn missiles myself.

Yesterday, I was asked to resign, and we were talking about moving to Montreal. Now I’m trying to put the entire U.S. government back together and stop the country from tearing itself apart.

What do you want me to do, General? Declare war? Why not? 40 minutes ago, they showed me the nuclear football. I guess I’ve had it long enough to try it out.

We’re gonna do our jobs. And we’re gonna keep doing them until someone makes us stop.

Technology changes. Human biology doesn’t.

Anger alone is no prescription. We need to figure out how to take that anger and turn it into action.