Amanda Waller (New Earth)/Quotes

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You pray to heaven -- I'm placing my faith in the Suicide Squad.

--Amanda Waller (New Earth)

An artificial intelligence, a Jewish computer. I wonder if it's reform, conservative, or orthodox?

--Amanda Waller (New Earth)

Gentlemen, Checkmate and the entire intelligence community is about to enter into a war!

--Amanda Waller (New Earth)

We'll do whatever it takes, throw it all at the wall until something works.

--Amanda Waller (New Earth)

I crossed the line, Simon. I knew it and did it deliberately. Given the same situation, I'd do the exact same thing again. If I did it and just got away with it, I'd undermine everything I'm supposed to be defending. I had to pay a price -- and I did.

--Amanda Waller (New Earth)

I know exactly what you used to do for the Brazilians before you got your power and I know exactly how much you enjoyed yourself while doing it. Now get to it, killer.

--Amanda Waller (New Earth)

The administration needs something they can disavow if things go wrong. That's us.

--Amanda Waller (New Earth)

What'd I tell you? We're about to get screwed.

--Amanda Waller (New Earth)

I will make it my personal business to see your butt is used for shoe leather!

--Amanda Waller (New Earth)

You didn't wear gloves in that cell, Batman; we got a nice set of prints. I promise you that, if you blow the whistle on us, I will find out who you are and do the same by you.

--Amanda Waller (New Earth)

Not so much a fake as a joke -- and it's all on you!

--Amanda Waller (New Earth)

I'm not proud of what I had to do -- but I would do it again. You all quit, you all die, I can still guarantee you one thing -- the Squad will go on.

--Amanda Waller (New Earth)

I am not taking no more charity -- not from kin, not from friends, and especially not from no damn government! The taste of it rots in my mouth! I'm gonna get me power over my own life! And heaven help the one who tries to take that power from me!

--Amanda Waller (New Earth)

If I can deal with family, I can deal with anything.

--Amanda Waller (New Earth)

You're here sooner than I expected, Steel. Job must be especially nasty and you folks must be especially desperate.

--Amanda Waller (New Earth)

I don't care. I'm not part of the law anymore. Kill them.

--Amanda Waller (New Earth)

Nobody can decide for anybody else to be well or strong or whole. People have to decide that on their own -- and you have to let 'em.

--Amanda Waller (New Earth)

Maybe this time the sacrifice that has to be made is mine.

--Amanda Waller (New Earth)

The facts of life. I know those experiments that gave you superstrength also made your skin so tough only an exploding shell could penetrate it. That was in the thirties. This is the nineties and we got things called lasers that can burn right through you.

--Amanda Waller (New Earth)

You got any brains? You want to keep them? You maybe want to sit down and cooperate?

--Amanda Waller (New Earth)

I am a sick old woman who is trying to save the world and if you give me any backtalk I will get up out of my death bed and skin you alive starting where it is most sensitive! You understand me?

--Amanda Waller (New Earth)

Every day, I go back, and I remember the names and faces of those who've died since I started the Squad. Every day I number the dead. I know how they died, and why. Others may die. I may die. We all know that going in. But I never take it lightly. Never will. Never. I wish I could say that everyone we've worked for felt the same.

--Amanda Waller (New Earth)

I started the Squad for reasons, girl. I had goals. We've never come near them. Oh, we've done some good, in some ways, sometimes. I guess. Just once, I'd like to see us do something right. This may be our last chance.

--Amanda Waller (New Earth)

The Squad is flawed, Ben. Has been since day one and I've been too stubborn -- too proud -- to see it. I've seen dark reflections of the Squad with Bolt and the others, with Task Force X. I saw into myself, back there in the jungle. And I'm not who I started out to be. All that's ahead would be more people, our people, getting killed. It's time to stop.

--Amanda Waller (New Earth)