President Alma Coin Quotes in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)

President Alma Coin: [spreads her arms] Welcome to the New Panem. Today, on the Avenue of the Tributes, all of Panem, a free Panem, will watch more than a mere spectacle. We are gathered to witness an historic moment of justice. Today, the greatest friend to the revolution will fire the shot to end all wars. May her arrow signify the end of tyranny and the beginning of a new era. Mockingjay, may your aim be as true as your heart is pure.

President Alma Coin: [message appears onscreen] Good evening. For those of you who don't know me, please allow me to introduce myself. I am President Alma Coin, leader of the Rebellion. I have interrupted a broadcast from your President in which he attempted to defame a brave young woman. "A face picked from the masses," he called her.

President Snow: Plucked.

President Alma Coin: As if a leader, a true leader, could be anything else. I had the privilege of knowing a small-town girl from the Seam in District 12 who survived the Hunger Games and the Quarter Quell and rose up and turned a nation of slaves into an army! Dead or alive, Katniss Everdeen will remain the face of this revolution. She will not have died for nothing.

[Katniss has just escaped for the Capitol]

President Alma Coin: What is she doing?

Plutarch Heavensbee: [nonchalant, shrugs slightly] I don't know. It's so frustrating when she goes rogue.

President Alma Coin: This isn't just adolescent, it's insubordination.

Plutarch Heavensbee: Put her on the first hovercraft back.

President Alma Coin: Don't be ridiculous. She can't come back now. She's mythic.

President Alma Coin: Do you have any other conditions?

Katniss Everdeen: My sister gets to keep her cat.

President Alma Coin: Maybe you should've rescued the boy instead.

Plutarch Heavensbee: No. No, no, listen to me. No one else who can do this but her.

President Alma Coin: This is not the girl you described.

Plutarch Heavensbee: Obviously, we need to make it personal. Remind her who the real enemy is.

President Alma Coin: She knows who the enemy is. That's not the issue.

Plutarch Heavensbee: Unless she's forgortten. There's explaining and there's showing. Let her see what the capital did to 12.

President Alma Coin: She can't handle it. The Games destroyed her.

Plutarch Heavensbee: This is the only choice you have. People don't always show up the way you want them to, Madame President. But that anger, that anger-driven defiance, that's what we want. And we can redirect it. We need to unite these people out there that have been doing nothing but killing each other in an arena for years. We have to have a lightning rod. They'll follow her. She's the face of the revolution. Let her see it. Let her go home.

President Alma Coin: We can't guarantee her safety.

Katniss Everdeen: You'll never be able to guarantee my safety... I wanna go.

President Alma Coin: And if you're killed?

Katniss Everdeen: Make sure you get it on camera.

President Alma Coin: Reduce oxygen to 14% to conserve it.

Katniss Everdeen: I've decided I will be your Mockingjay, but I have... some conditions. Peeta and the other tributes, Johanna Mason and Annie Cresta, will be rescued at the earliest opportunity. If and when Peeta is liberated, he will receive a full and unconditional pardon, no punishment will be inflicted. And the same goes for the other tributes.

President Alma Coin: [nods, considers the demand, but:] No.

Katniss Everdeen: It's not their fault. You be them in the arena. They're doing and saying whatever they can to survive.

President Alma Coin: Individuals don't make demands in 13. There will be a tribunal, and a fair judgment.

[coldly:]

President Alma Coin: Thank you.

Katniss Everdeen: [adamant] The victors will be granted immunity, and you will announce that in front of the entire population of 13. You will hold yourself and your government responsible, or you will find another Mockingjay.

Plutarch Heavensbee: [pleased] That's it! That's her! Right there! Isn't that what I promised you? Now if she wears the costume, gunfire in the background, a hint of smoke... Our Mockingjay. Madam President, we're losing ground because people are losing heart, this is worth the risk, she's worth the risk. Pardons, tribunals, power to the people, that can all be the bedrock for the new Panem, but with more time I think even the normal sub-causes can be bent a little bit, right?

President Alma Coin: [swayed] Do you have any other conditions?

Katniss Everdeen: [consults her note] My sister gets to keep her cat.