General Kimsey Quotes in Armageddon (1998)

General Kimsey: If you're trying to make me feel better about this scenario, give it up.

Truman: To tell you the truth, I'm kind of encouraged. This guy Chick here was an Air Force commando for six years.

General Kimsey: We got robbery, assault, arrest, resisting arrest. We got a collection agent for the mob. Two of these guys have done serious time.

Truman: Look, they're the best at what they do.

General Kimsey: So am I. And I'm not so optimistic. We spend 250 billion dollars a year on defense. And here we are. The fate of the planet is in the hands of a bunch of retards I wouldn't trust with a potato gun.

Dan: With the proximity of the asteroid, and no prep time, none of our primary plans can work.

General Kimsey: Why don't we just send up a hundred and fifty nuclear warheads and blast that rock apart?

Ronald Quincy: Terrible idea.

General Kimsey: Was I talkin' to you?

Dan: This is Dr. Ronald Quincy from Research. Pretty much the smartest man on the planet You might wanna listen to him.

General Kimsey: And the ones this morning?

Dan: Uh, those were nothing. Uh, they're the size of basketballs and, uh, Volkswagens, things like that.

Truman: [a team of soldiers come into the control room via the elevators] What is this?

General Kimsey: Secondary protocol.

Truman: But they haven't drilled the damn hole yet!

General Kimsey: The president's advisors feel that the drilling isn't working. And we've lost radio contact, maybe for good. We've only got a few minutes left of guaranteed ability to remote detonate that nuke. If we don't do it now, we could lose control and we may never get it back.

Truman: Well, you tell the president that he better fire his so-called advisors! And if you detonate that nuke on the surface, we've wasted a perfectly good bomb. And we have one chance to save this planet!