If a reporter asked if you and Hardin were friends, I'd say, No. We were good friends.

4 seconds sound clip from the Clear and Present Danger movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:25:06.211 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- No one outside of this room knows anything about it.

- They will. They always do.

- It'll come out. You're absolutely right about that. But when it does, we'll downplay your relationship with Hardin somehow.

- Hmm.

- What?

- What?

- Defuse it.

- What? You disagree?

- No. Well, actually, yes. Forgive me, but I would go in the other direction.

- If a reporter asked if you and Hardin were friends, I'd say, No. We were good friends.

- If they should ask if you were good friends, I'd say, No, no, we were lifelong friends.

- I would give them no place to go, nothing to report, no story.

- I mean, it's no sense defusing a bomb after it's already... It's already gone off.

- Damn. Shit!

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