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Battlestar Galactica Quotes; It's Become A Tradition ...
Topic Started: Jul 11 2007, 09:00 PM (305 Views)
monty24llr
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Commander William Adama: There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.
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That is my favorite Adama quote ever. I love it. I think it should be posted in very large letters in every room of the white house!
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Sharon Valerii: "It's what you said at the ceremony before the attack, when Galactica was being decommissioned. You gave a speech, it sounded like it wasn't the one you prepared. You said that humanity was a flawed creation, and that people still kill one another for petty jealousy and greed. You said that humanity never asked itself why it deserved to survive. Maybe you don't. ”

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Starbuck: "This is a fracked up thing that I've been asked to do. But we kill people for a living. If they say shoot...we shoot."
Apollo: "So, you're really going to do this?"
Starbuck: "Yeah. I'm gonna do it. I could use some back up. I'll understand if you can't."
Apollo: "You know better than that."
Starbuck: "Yeah. I guess so."
Apollo: "People have to have this Kara. Trust. Your word and my word. We don't have this...then we really are no different from the cylons."
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One of the only humorous scenes I can remember from this show:

<span style='font-family:Optima'>President Roslin is bedridden, dying of cancer, and coughing profusely.

Commander William Adama: What can I get you?

President Laura Roslin: A new body. Perhaps, one of those young Cylon models from the Resurrection Ship.

Adama: I can't see you as a blonde.

Laura: You'd be surprised.
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Good one Kerra. I loved that scene. Such a good moment between those two. Here's one that I thought was funny.

(Starbuck returns from a reconnaissance mission in the stealth ship and sees the Pegasus and Galactica vipers about to engage each other in a shootout. Suddenly, they pick her up on sensors and they all turn on her thinking she's a cylon)

"Starbuck to all vipers do not fire! Repeat: Do not fire!
I'm a friendly, OK!
We're all friendlies.
So let's just.....be friendly."
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Baltar: All right, that's it! No more Mr. Nice Gaius!
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Admiral Cain: "Do you drink Thrace?"
Starbuck: "Only to excess, sir."
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Gaius Baltar: You'll forgive me, Madam President, if I don't wish to be executed based solely on your... gut feeling.
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Roslyn: “It is remarkable”
Chief: “ It’s just a ship, ma’am.”
Roslyn: “Oh, you’re much to modest. After what we’ve been through it would be very easy to give up…to lose hope.
But not here. Not today. This is more than a ship. This is an act of faith.
It is proof that despite all we’ve lost…we keep trying and we will get through, all of us, together. I promise.”
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Quote from the original series:


Lieutenant Boomer: Just keep it up, old buddy, you're going to get us into real trouble.

Starbuck: Ten thousand light years from nowhere, our planet shot to pieces, people starving, and *I'm* gonna get us in trouble?
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One of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite episodes. The president has been told she only has a month to live and Adama has just narrowly evaded having to assasinate a fellow officer....losing some of Starbucks respect in the process.


Roslyn: "Rumor has it, that I know very little about military protocol. But I do believe that someone who commands more than one ship is called an Admiral."
[She hands Adama his Admiral insigna pins]
"Congratulations Admiral Adama"

Adama: "Thank you madam President. I....I never gave up hope I just stopped trying to get these a long time ago."

Roslyn: "It just goes to show you Bill. Never give up hope."

Adama: "Same goes for you Laura."


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"Flesh and Bone" Leoben Conoy to Starbuck, towards the end of his interrogation, just before Roslin's arrival:

Conoy: Each of us plays a role; each time a different role. Maybe the last time I was the interrogator and you were the prisoner. The players change, the story remains the same. And this time – this time – your role is to deliver my soul unto God. Do it for me. It’s your destiny. And mine. (He pauses) And I told you I had a surprise for you. Are you ready? You are going to find Kobol, birthplace of us all. Kobol will lead you to Earth. This is my gift to you, Kara.
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From the Battlestar Galactica miniseries

During the Galactica decommissioning speech:

Adama: The Cylon War is long over, yet we must not forget the reasons why so many sacrificed so much in the cause of freedom. The cost of wearing the uniform can be high, but...

[very long pause]

sometimes it's too high. You know, when we fought the Cylons, we did it to save ourselves from extinction. But we never answered the question "Why?" Why are we as a people worth saving? We still commit murder because of greed and spite, jealousy, and we still visit all of our sins upon our children. We refuse to accept the responsibility for anything that we've done, like we did with the Cylons. We decided to play God, create life. And when that life turned against us, we comforted ourselves in the knowledge that it really wasn't our fault, not really. You cannot play God then wash your hands of the things that you've created. Sooner or later, the day comes when you can't hide from the things that you've done anymore.
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From Pegasus. Kara questions Admiral Cain's plan.


Adm. Cain: Let me tell you something. I've had to watch a lot of kids be put into body bags. They're covered in flags and floated out that airlock. You think I don't understand his feelings towards his men. Sometimes terrible things have to be done. Inevitably, each and every one of us will have to face a moment where we have to commit that horrible sin and if we flinch in that moment, if we hesitate for one second, if we let our conscience get in the way, do you know what happens? There are more kids in these body bags. More kids floating out that airlock. I don't know why but I have a lot of faith in you. And I want you to promise me that when the moment comes you won't flinch. Do not flinch.
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From season 2 Pegasus:

(Starbuck is awaiting the command from Adama to assasinate Adm. Cain.)


Adama:
"I've been thinking about what we talked about before.
It's not enough to survive. One has to be worthy of surviving."
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Upon discovering that he is a Cylon:

Tigh: My name is Saul Tigh. I am an officer in the Colonial Fleet. Whatever else I am, whatever else it means, that's the man I want to be. And if I die today, that's the man I'll be.
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From the episode "The Son Also Rises":

Romo Lampkin: Everybody has demons. Them, Baltar, you, me. Even the machines. The law is just a way of exorcising them. That's what your father's father told me. You want to know why I hated him? Because he was right.

Lee Adama: So you hated him because he was right, and I hated the law because it was wrong. Because of what... of what it put him through. I mean, he defended the worst of the worst. I remember reading about him. The outrage. Helping murderers go free. What I don't understand is why he put himself through all that abuse.

Romo Lampkin: You think he gave a flying frak? Joe Adama cared about one thing. Understanding why people do what they do. Why we cheat our friends, why we reward our enemies. Why we go to war, sacrificing our lives for lost causes. Why we build machines in the hope of correcting our flaws and our shortcomings. Why we forgive, defying logic and the laws of nature with one stupid little act of compassion. We're flawed. All of us. I wanted to know why, so I did what he did. I spent my life with the fallen. The corrupt. The damaged.
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From the episode "The Son Also Rises":

Adm. Adama: "After what you did to Tigh, you are the last person I would consider to confide in."

Lee Adama: "Me? I didn't do anything to Tigh. He was drunk. It is really not my fault."

Adm. Adama: "You told Lampkin about Ellen."

Lee Adama: "I didn't even know about Ellen."

Adm. Adama: "Yeah, right."

Lee Adama: "Are you calling me a liar?"

Adm. Adama: "I'm calling you a liar and a coward — one who doesn't have the guts to go after a man himself, and instead you hand this shift to a stranger and let him stab Tigh in the back…. For what? That traitorous piece of garbage Gaius Baltar who doesn't even deserve a trial?"

Lee Adama: "Are you done?"

Adm. Adama: "Yes."

Lee Adama: "Then so am I. I will not serve under a man who questions my integrity."

Adm. Adama: "And I won't have an officer under my command who doesn't have any."
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