Nick Fury: Have you even listened to a word that I've said?

Rhodey: Yeah, I have. The world is on the line. The enemy is a million times more dangerous than HYDRA, but they can only be vanquished by you. Alone. And you want me to make the power mean something by helpin' a brother out. But you should know better than most. The reason we wrestled this power from mediocre men who don't look like us was not simply to turn around and hand it to mediocre men who do. The point of this power is to be uncompromising, to be unsparing, to be able to sit across from a man we greatly admire, with whom we share an entire professional, personal, ancestral history with and to tell him without any reservation, that he's fired. That's what this moment right here, right now is about, Nick.