General Rogard Quotes in The Iron Giant (1999)

General Rogard: That missile is targeted to the giant's current position! WHERE'S THE GIANT, MANSLEY?

Kent Mansley: Oooh... We can duck and cover! There's a fallout shelter not far from...

General Rogard: There's no way to survive this thing, you idiot!

Kent Mansley: You mean we're all going to...

General Rogard: To die, Mansley. For our country.

Kent Mansley: Screw our country! I WANT TO LIVE!

General Rogard: Nothing can stop this thing. We've hit it with everything we got.

Kent Mansley: Not everything, General... the Bomb. The Nautilus has first strike capability and is anchored just off shore.

General Rogard: You scare me, Mansley. You want us to bomb ourselves in order to kill it?

Kent Mansley: The robot seems to go after whatever attacks it. We can lure it away from the town, then destroy it.

General Rogard: [to soldier] Radio the Nautilus. Tell them to stand by and await my command.

General Rogard: You'll be Chief Inspector of Subway Toilets by the time I'm through with you!

Dean McCoppin: Don't shoot! There's a kid in his hand! Kent, he only acts defensively. If you don't shoot, he's harmless. You gotta tell the general.

Kent Mansley: This is your fault, beatnik. If you haven't interfered...

Dean McCoppin: Will you just listen? Tell the general to stop. He's got the kid with him.

Kent Mansley: I'll take care of it.

[Dean leaves; Kent goes over to General Rogard]

Kent Mansley: He said the monster has killed a kid. Sir, we must stop it at all costs.

General Rogard: [On walkie-talkie] Go to Code Red! Repeat, Code Red!

General Rogard: You realize how much hardware I brought out here? You just blew millions of Uncle Sam's dollars out of your butt!

[over the telephone]

Kent Mansley: Sir, this thing is a menace. It destroyed a power station, it... it caused a train wreck!

General Rogard: What did, Mansley? Tell me again, and this time, listen to yourself.

Kent Mansley: [sighs] A giant... metal monster.

[Rogard laughs uncontrollably over the phone]

Kent Mansley: Please, Sir, I've got a feeling about this one.

General Rogard: That's nice, Mansley, but let me explain how things are supposed to work. If you had, say, a footprint, I might be able to send over an expert to make a plaster cast of it. Hell, you get me a photograph of this thing, I can send some troops down there! But you tell me you've got a feeling...

Kent Mansley: All right... you want evidence? I'll get you evidence. And when I do, I'm gonna want a memo distributed!

General Rogard: That's just swell, Mansley.

Kent Mansley: And I'm gonna want that memo carbon copied and distributed...

[Rogard hangs up]