Colonel Hyrum Graff Quotes in Ender’s Game The Ender’s Game quotes below are all either spoken by Colonel Hyrum Graff or refer to Colonel Hyrum Graff. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one: “He’s clean. Ender's Game Quotes Colonel Hyrum Graff: We won. The way we win matters. Ender Wiggin: No. Graff counters that he enjoys the end result, when the children become good soldiers. Ender Wiggin: Bernard is living proof that chimps still fly in space. That's all that matters. Although Graff does at times seem to take pleasure in torturing Ender and the others, his pleasure stems more from thinking of how they will one day destroy the buggers.