Jack Braddock Quotes in Blue Thunder (1983)

Jack Braddock: [after Lymangood interrupts him chewing out Murphy] You're supposed to be stupid, son. Don't abuse the privilege.

Jack Braddock: I've been trying to get you all night. Why don't you answer your fucking beeper?

Frank Murphy: I just wanna tell you, Jack, that the next time I'm suspended, so is my fucking beeper!

Jack Braddock: But there's a bright side to this, and a moral. I think morals are good for you, I love morals, and the moral of this story is: If you're walkin' on eggs, don't hop.

[Icelan and Braddock are discussing Murphy]

Icelan: He checks his sanity with a wrist watch!

Jack Braddock: What do you check yours with, a dipstick?

Jack Braddock: You think I don't know about that silly twit up in Encino, for Chrissakes? I had twenty years in this outfit, when your idea of a good time was sittin' in front of the TV tube, watchin' Bugs Bunny and gnawing on your fudgcicle.

[Murphy walks out to the pad]

Jack Braddock: Well Murph, feeling any pressure?

Frank Murphy: Yeah. About 15 pounds per square inch at sea level.

[after the demonstration, Murphy and Braddock walk over to meet Blue Thunder's pilot]

Frank Murphy: [recognizes Cochrane as the pilot] Well, what do you know!

Jack Braddock: Friend of yours?

Frank Murphy: [smiling ruefully] An old war buddy. Bastard tried to have me court-martialed once.

Jack Braddock: Who are you fooling with that phony radio bullshit? Jesus Christ, Frank, that went out three days after Marconi invented the fucking thing!

Kress: If it was me, I'd ground him.

Jack Braddock: He'll be all right.

Kress: Personally, I wouldn't fly with him for a bull that pissed Jack Daniels.

Jack Braddock: Is that right?

Jack Braddock: [to Murphy] You know what they'll do with this? They'll burn you... me... your idiotic friend here... and my whole damn division. And I don't want my division burnt!

Jack Braddock: [about Col. F.E. Cochrane] Irritating little cocksucker, isn't he?