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"I want you to know that I think the whole fucking bunch of you are certifiably insane. This code of honor of yours makes me want to beat the shit out of somebody."
"We're in the business of saving lives, Matthew. That is a responsibility that I think we have to take pretty seriously. And I believe that taking a Marine who's not quite up to the job and shipping him off to some other assignment puts lives in danger. [Markinson rises to leave] Sit down, Matthew. We go back a while. We went to the Academy together, we were commissioned together, we did our tours in Vietnam together. But I've been promoted up the chain with greater speed and success than you have. Now, if that's a source of tension or embarrassment for you, I don't give a shit. We're in the business of saving lives, Lt. Col. Markinson. Don't ever question my orders in front of another officer."
"In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth."
"Tom Cruise - Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee"
"Demi Moore - Lieutenant Commander Joanne Galloway"
"Jack Nicholson - Colonel Nathan R.Jessup"
"Kevin Bacon - Captain Jack Ross"
"Kiefer Sutherland - Lieutenant Jonathan Kendrick"
"J.T. Walsh - Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Markinson"
"Kevin Pollak - Lieutenant Junior Grade Sam Weinberg"
"James Marshall - Private First Class Louden Downey"
"Matt Craven - Lieutenant Dave Spradling"
"Wolfgang Bodison - Lance Corporal Harold W.Dawson"
"J.A. Preston - Judge Julius Alexander Randolph"
"Noah Wyle - Corporal Jeffrey Barnes"
"Cuba Gooding Jr. - Corporal Carl Hammaker"
"John M. Jackson - Captain West"
"Xander Berkeley - Captain Whitaker"
"Joshua Malina - Tom"
"Christopher Guest - Dr.Stone"
"Aaron Sorkin - Lawyer bragging in tavern"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.