Philip: I told her she'd have you to talk to.
Elizabeth: What do you think I was just doing?

Elizabeth: We cook, Claudia, Paige, and me. We watch old movies and listen to movies and talk. It feels... and then I walk out of there and it just hits me in the face. Here.
Philip: Yeah.
Elizabeth: I hate it, Philip.

Philip: Honestly, the way things are going, I think in a couple of years, we'll have Stan over here for Zharkoye.
Elizabeth: What are you talking about?
Philip: Things are changing back home, opening up, and it's not just politics, it's, it's young people, it's music, it's different. I mean, they're talking about opening a Pizza Hut in Moscow. You see the papers.
Elizabeth: What? The Washington Post? You know, all this talk, Perestroika and Glasnost. The Americans, they eat it up. They want us to be just like them. I don't want to be like them! And neither do the people back home!
Philip: You haven't talked to anyone back home in over 20 years.
Elizabeth: Neither have you.

You can't live your life being afraid, Paige. You wouldn't do anything. You want to make a difference, you make a difference.

Elizabeth

Elizabeth: No matter how risky it is, it's OK.
Paige: What do you mean it's OK?
Elizabeth: That no matter what happens to me that if I'm fighting for something that important...
Paige: You don't care if you die?
Elizabeth: Well, of course I do. But I'm not afraid.

Claudia: What does she draw?
Elizabeth: People, faces, I don't know. Kind of strange.
Claudia: You don't like her work?
Elizabeth: I don't know why people like her spend their life doing that. At least her husband is doing something.

I can't tell you how much better I feel just dealing with murderers, drug dealers, and corrupt politicians. I'm serious.

Stan

Elizabeth: I suppose she would have just drifted off.
Claudia: It's not usually that easy.
Elizabeth: Well, she's really gonna suffer now.
Claudia: You just have to keep her alive through the summit.

It is finally getting to you, after all these years. You're amazing, but it is finally getting to you.

Philip

Philip: I know how tired you are, but I need to talk to you.
Elizabeth: If you knew how tired I am, you wouldn't still be talking.

Oleg: We need your help.
Philip: We?
Oleg: The people running the organization right now have a very old life view of things, and Gorbachev doesn't have the power to get rid of them.
Philip: I'm out of it.
Oleg: I'm told. I wouldn't be here except some very powerful people out there to get rid of Gorbachev, to stop all the good things that have been happening lately in our country. Your wife had a meeting in Latin America with the General of Strategic Rocket Forces. Strange, right?
Philip: No stranger than us meeting here. My wife just does her job. That's all she's ever done. She's good at it.
Oleg: I know. But it's possible that she's being used by the people who are trying to stop all the progress that we've been making. Or she's one of them.

Stephanie: Art's not really my thing.
Erica: That's like saying "life's" not really my thing. "Duty's" not really my thing.

The Americans Quotes

Interrogator: There will be no spy trades under this president.
Philip: I'm not a spy.

We will find this traitor and put a bullet in his head.

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