The truth is, the choice isn't yours, and it isn't mine.

6 seconds sound clip from the G.I. Jane movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:36:39 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- I don't resent that. So if you've come here lookin' for me to apologize for keeping alive you better pull up a chair, 'cause you're gonna be here for a while.

- Tell me you didn't sell me out. Tell me you didn't sink my whole career to make you look good.

- Those charges will be dismissed. Your career will go forward, albeit back here in Washington.

- Oh, come on. Don't tell me you wanted that kind of life. Squat-pissing in some third-world jungle with some guys looking up your behind.

- I wanted the choice. That's how it's supposed to be.

- The truth is, the choice isn't yours, and it isn't mine.

- American families are just not prepared to have their daughters and young mothers in harm's way.

- You don't know that.

- Yes, I do. Roper, Paris, Gallup, all the polls, they all come back the same way.

- What are you saying? That a woman's life is more valuable than a man's? That a woman's death is more hurtful than a man's?

- No politician can afford to let women come home in body bags... especially me.

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