Secretary of Defense Quotes in Battleship (2012)

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Secretary of Defense Quotes:

  • Secretary of Defense: [from the Pentagon] Just scramble the jets, Admiral! We need to get in there-!

    Admiral Shane: I'm far more aware than you of the need to get inside! But wasting lives will not help! You want me to send up another plane? I'll do it the second you get up here and put your ass in the co-pilot's seat, *sir*!

    [slams phone down]

  • [cabinet has been debating putting water on the plants instead of Brawndo]

    Pvt. Joe Bowers: What *are* these electrolytes? Do you even know?

    Secretary of State: They're... what they use to make Brawndo!

    Pvt. Joe Bowers: But *why* do they use them to make Brawndo?

    Secretary of Defense: [raises hand after a pause] Because Brawndo's got electrolytes.

  • Sen. John Yerkes Iselin: No evasions, Mister Secretary, no evasions if you please.

    Secretary of Defense: Evasions? What the hell are you talking about?

    Secretary of Defense: [whispering to Marco] What the hell is this nonsense?

    Marco: [covering the microphones] Mister Secretary, I'm kind of new at this job, but I don't think it's good public relations to speak that way to a US Senator, even if he is an idiot.

    Sen. John Yerkes Iselin: I am United States Senator John Yerkes Iselin, and I have here a list of two hundred seven persons who are known by the Secretary of Defense as being members of the Communist Party!

    Secretary of Defense: [amid shocked reaction from the crowd] What?

    Sen. John Yerkes Iselin: Who nevertheless are still shaping the policy of the Defense Department!

    Secretary of Defense: Senator who?

    Sen. John Yerkes Iselin: I demand an answer, Mister Secretary! There will be no covering up, sir! No covering up!

    Secretary of Defense: How did you get in here in the first place?

  • General: Do you remember what Senator Baker said when the military appropriations bill came up for vote?

    Secretary of Defense: He said we could safely reduce our armed forces by half.

    General: He wasn't only wrong, he's dead.

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