50 Best Air Force One Quotes

President: Do you know who I am? I'm the President of the United States!
Boris: Don't think that means I don't shoot you!

Grace: Where is my husband?
Ivan: He has fled. The coward chose to save himself. But one can always... strike a bargain.
Grace: No, you listen to me. I don't know who you are or what you want, but you will never get it. He will not negotiate.
Ivan: Really? His wife. His daughter. A man could not live with himself. And it would be such... bad politics.
[putting his gun to her head]
Ivan: I think he'll negotiate.

AFO: [as Ivan and Andrei are trying to get into the cockpit and stop the plane from landing] . No matter what happens, we land this aircraft. Is that understood?

President: [to Korshunov just before he knocks him off the back of Air Force One] Get off my plane!

President: Peace isn't merely the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice.

General: Nobody does this to the United States. The President will get his baseball glove back and play catch with this guy's balls!

White: [after hearing the president] My God! Is he saying what I think he's saying?
Vice: If we're going to act, we have to act now.
Defense: It's too risky.
Vice: The president is up there with a gun to his head.
General: He asking us to do that to Air Force One?
Vice: He's not asking. Your Commander-in-Chief has issued a direct order. Do it!

[first lines]
Major: [after landing in Kazakstan] Quick head count! One, two, three, four, five. Move out!

General: Moscow police found six members of a Russian TV news crew murdered. The same crew that was cleared to fly on Air Force One.
White: Jesus.
Vice: Oh, please tell me it's not that easy.
White: No. You would have to generate fake ID, photo, fingerprints.
General: Could be with a little help from Moscow.
Vice: How would they get the weapons on board the plane?
Defense: There's no way to get weapons aboard Air Force One. It's impossible.
Vice: Well, there are enough weapons already on board to take Panama, but who has access to them?
Defense: You think someone on the plane helped them?
Vice: What if somebody did and they're still on the plane? Who do they trust up there? Who do we trust?

Alice: I'm twelve years old, Dad. In caveman days, I'd be having children of my own.
President: That's what we call progress, young lady.

President: Did you hear my speech?
Grace: Yeah.
President: Yeah?
Grace: You're gonna get yourself re-elected.
President: That's what I keep telling them.

[Phillips is talking Marshall through dumping fuel with the avionics panel]
Phillips,: Hold on, just let me double-check, sir...
President: Oh, for Christ's sakes, man, hurry up!
Phillips,: Sir, if you get the wrong wire, you'll cut the engine feeds, and the plane will crash.
President: Then we don't want to get the wrong wire, do we?

Vice: What does the psych profile say? How far do they say he'll go?
Defense: He's a Radek loyalist. That tells us all we need to know, doesn't it?
White: He'll see this thing through to the last hostage or his own death.
Defense: You release this bastard, and all of Central Asia will go up in flames!
Vice: I'm well aware of that.
Defense: Bring back the old Soviet empire under a flag of genocide? Radek with a nuclear arsenal? I hate to say this, but 50 people is a small price to pay to stop that from happening.
White: Even if one of them is the president?
Defense: The presidency is bigger than any one man. Didn't they teach you that at Yale?

[Crossing three wires blindly]
President: I'm counting on you, red, white and blue.

Vice: How the hell did they get Air Force One?

Ivan: When you talk to the President, you might remind him that I am holding his wife, his daughter, his chief of staff, his national security advisor, his classified papers - and his baseball glove! If he wants them back, he will prevail upon the puppet regime in Moscow to release General Radek. Fifty for one. It's a good deal. How's your blouse?
Vice: What assurances do I have that you'll keep your word?
Ivan: I'll wait for confirmation that General Radek has been released. Until then... I will execute a hostage every half an hour. You have my word.

Ivan: I understand that Air Force One can refuel in mid-air. Well we need fuel, and we need it now.
Vice: I'm sure we can come to some kind of arrangement. If you land the plane we'll trade fuel for hostages.
Ivan: This is bullshit! It's simple physics. Without fuel the plane crashes,
[scoffs]
Ivan: everybody dies!
Vice: We're trying to do everything we can.
Ivan: Tell me what I want to hear or I will execute a member of the senior staff and continue killing one hostage every minute until the plane crashes, or refueling plane arrive. Well what do you say?
Vice: Fuel's on its way.
Ivan: Thank you.

President: Kathryn, if you give a mouse a cookie...
Vice: It's gonna want a glass of milk.

Ivan: I know what you're thinking, First Lady. You want me dead. Well, it might come to that. In the war, people die.
Grace: This isn't war! You just murdered an unarmed woman.
Ivan: You, who murdered a 100,000 Iraqis to save a nickel on a gallon of gas. Are going to lecture me about the rules of war? Don't!

President: [after seeing an enemy plane being blown up] HAHAHA. The good guys are here.

Defense: We found the escape pod. It's empty.
Vice: So where's the president?
Defense: I think we have to acknowledge the possibility that the president may be dead.
White: Why wouldn't they tell us?
Defense: Diversion. Try to buy some time. It could've happened in a crossfire, and they're afraid we'll retaliate.
General: Damn right we'll retaliate. We'll release General Radek into the god damn atmosphere.
Vice: It doesn't add up. That terrorist knew that we'd recover the pod in short order. He expected that we'd be talking to Marshall.
White: Let's not bury him yet. He could still be alive on that plane. Let's not forget this president is a Medal of Honor winner. In Vietnam, he flew more helicopter rescue missions than any man in my command. He knows how to fight.
Vice: Then he's taking a terrible chance with his life.
White: The element of surprise is a formidable advantage in combat. If he's up there, he's the best chance that we have.
Vice: That pod was designed for a reason, General. He has no right to take chances with his life.

F: Sir, pull up! You've got one on your tail.
President: Get him off my tail!
F: Missile away. Air Force One. Break left and climb!
Major: Sir, we've lost countermeasures.
F: This is Halo-2. They've lost countermeasures. I'm going in.
[takes the missile for Air Force One]

Grace: She couldn't stay your little girl forever Jim.
President: I know. But I was hoping she could wait until she was 14 or 15... or 50.

Ivan: You've been very busy downstairs, haven't you? Killing my men?
Ivan: [Slaps President Marshall's face after been tied with tape]
Ivan: [Punches President Marshall's stomach]
Ivan: [Lies down President Marshall against a desk and takes his gun and points it at his head]
Grace: NO!
President: You don't wanna do that. I'm what you came for, don't forget that.
Ivan: Then I'll kill them. Or just one? You pick. That's what you do in the White House? You play God.

Vice: I want to understand what it is that you want.
Ivan: What do I want? When Mother Russia becomes one great nation again, when the capitalists are dragged from the Kremlin and shot in the street, when our enemies run and hide in fear at the mention of our name, and America begs our forgiveness on that great day of deliverance, you will know what I want.

President: [after he is slammed by Korshunov against a computer] Petrov will never give up Radek!
Ivan: Petrov is a dog, eh. He does as you tell him to.
Ivan: [Slams President Marshall against the earphone plugs and points his gun at his neck] Tell him to do this.
President: [while holding a glass] Petrov used me, I just want to stop the bloodshed, he wanted a personal victory. Petrov hates Radek.
Ivan: Of course he hates Radek, Radek is everything he is not. A great man, A STRONG MAN. What are you saying? He will refuse you.
President: You'd be playing right in to his hands, are you an idiot, you'd make him into a hero, the man who stopped the terrorist. Or better yet, the man who stopped me.
Ivan: [Grabs Marshall's neck] You talk as you have nothing to do with this. This is all you are doing, this infection, you call freedom without meaning and without purpose. You have given my country to gangsters, and prostitutes. You have TAKENED EVERYTHING FROM US! There's nothing left.
[Spits on Marshall's face and puts his gun again at his neck and grabs a phone]
Ivan: Call him.
President: No. No!

Major: [the Liberty 24 pararescue team only has time for one more retrieval] Mr. President, it's time to get you off this plane!

Alice: [watching a football game] Pass interference. That's cheating!
President: Only if they get caught.

Vice: Can't we release him today and pick up the pieces tomorrow? We caught him before, we catch him again.
Defense: If Petrov releases Radek, his government will fall. I promise you that. Then who's gonna stand up to Radek? You go to catch him again, you're gonna find him in Moscow.
White: With all respect, Mr. Secretary, we don't need more dramatics. We need options.
Defense: It's not an option.
White: We need a decision.
Defense: It's not her decision.
Vice: No?
Defense: This is a military situation. I'm the Secretary of Defense. Check your regs. In the absence of the president, the buck stops here.
Vice: Get the Attorney General with a copy of the Constitution. We have...
[checking their watches]
Vice: Oh, my god! 19 minutes. I'm gonna consult with President Petrov.

Grace: You said you were gonna release us.
Ivan: Forgive me. I lied.

National: [to Ivan] The Vice President in this case is like the Queen of England. You can't even buy airline tickets without talking to someone like me. Therfore, let me speak to The White House because I can assure you, I'm the one person who can make this all work out.

Defense: The United States does not negotiate with terrorists. It's been our bedrock principle for 25 years. You can't give in to them now. It'll be open season on the U.S. Many more will die.

Ivan: The President is safe - but then you must know that. He ran from here like a whipped dog! I'm sure you can't wait for him to get back to making the decisions so you can stop... sweating... through that silk blouse of yours!

Ivan: Your national security advisor has just been executed. He's a very good negotiator. He bought you another half hour.

President: Where are your chutes, guys?
Agent: We stay with the president.
President: Thank you.

President: If this works, you get to be Postmaster General.

Colonel: Okay guys give me some room. I've just been ordered to fire on Air Force One.

President: These MiGs... how far away are they?
["Radar Lock" screen beeps]
President: Never mind

[last lines]
Liberty: Mr. President, welcome aboard, sir!

Vice: This is the Vice President of the United States. To whom am I speaking?
Ivan: This is the person who controls Air Force One. The world's most... secure aircraft.
Vice: What is it that you want?
Ivan: We'll get to that.

Chief: Your speech is leading the news. They're already calling it the "Be Afraid" speech.
President: Good.
National: With all due respect, sir, next time you want to make a major policy departure, you might want to discuss it with your National Security Advisor first.
President: We did discuss it, Jack.
National: We discussed it in private, which is where I thought it would remain.
President: Well, now it's public. Now it's policy. Get behind it.
National: The allies are gonna be very upset they weren't consulted about this.
Chief: It might come back and bite us in the ass in November.
President: It's the right thing to do. And you know it.

Chief: Who's down there in the baggage deck? The Russians said it's a secret service agent. Who?
Agent: We have no idea sir.
Chief: Melanie was shot because one of your men wouldn't show himself. I want to know who the son of a bitch he is.
Agent: We'd like to know ourselves.
Major: Sir, it's someone who is smart enough to know if you're hunting with one bullet, you wait for a clean shot.
Chief: What are you saying, Major?
Major: I am saying sir, whoever that is down there, he may be our only hope.
Chief: Our only hope is that Washington complies with this bastard. Because any minute now another one of us is dead. And you know what? I'm afraid it might be me.

Melanie: Mr. President, the Russian news crew is with us. I told them you'd give them a sound bite about life in the White House.
President: There *is* no life in the White House!

Ivan: I would turn my back on God Himself for Mother Russia

Agent: Give me the strap!
President: I trusted you with my life.
Agent: So will the next President. Now, give it to me.

[Ivan has just killed Melanie Mitchell]
Ivan: I know what you're thinking First Lady, you want me dead. Well, we may come to that. You see people do die in wars.
Grace: This isn't war! You just murdered an unarmed woman!

President: You're not here for this, you want something. What is it?
Ivan: I want Radek.
President: How can I do that, I can't do that!
Ivan: Then you die the three of you.
President: I'll do anything to save my family DON'T ASK ME FOR SOMETHING I CAN'T GIVE!
Ivan: The most powerful man on the earth, and there certain things you cannot do. This is very curious, stop with your fuckin' LIES!

Russian: Today we are honoring this brave man. Ladies and gentlemen, my friend, the President of the United States of America.
President: IN RUSSIAN. The dead remember our indifference. The dead remember our silence.
President: I came here tonight to be congratulated, but today when I visited the Red Cross camps, overwhelmed by the flood of refugees fleeing from the horror of Kazakhstan, I realized I don't deserve to be congratulated. None of us do.
National: What's he doing?
Chief: That's not the speech.
President: Let's speak the truth. And the truth is, we acted too late. Only when our own national security was threatened did we act. Radek's regime murdered over 200,000 men, women, and children, and we watched it on TV. We let it happen. People were being slaughtered for over a year and we issued economic sanctions and hid behind the rhetoric of diplomacy. How dare we? The dead remember. Real peace is not just the absence of conflict, it's the presence of justice. And tonight I come to you with a pledge to change America's policy. Never again will I allow our political self-interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right. Atrocity and terror are not political weapons and to those who would use them: your day is over. We will never negotiate. We will no longer tolerate, and we will no longer be afraid. It's your turn to be afraid.

Alice: [to Korshunov] You are a monster, and my father is a great man. You're nothing like my father!

Liberty: Blue Star... Air Force One is down!
Control: Liberty 24 have you got the president?
[static]
Control: Liberty, do you have the president?
Liberty: Standby...
Liberty: [President Marshal is grabbed off the line and taken on board, a watching crew member on his ear set] ... Liberty 24 is changing call sign, Liberty 24 is now Air Force One!