“This isn’t the first time SHIELD has been declared dead. It’s an organization that has been in and out of existence so many times since I joined. If the President thinks he finally killed it, he’s wrong. We’ll be back eventually.”
“I remember when Fury first recruited me. I had tried to kill him, but that’s not relevant. He told me about SHIELD and how it operated. He didn’t paint it as perfect and that’s something I loved. I was ready for anything different from HYDRA, but SHIELD saved my life. It gave me some purpose.”