Air Force One (1997) quotes

Director
Wolfgang Petersen.

Cast
Harrison Ford.
Gary Oldman.
Glenn Close.

Communist Radicals hijack Air Force One with The U.S. President and his family on board. The Vice President negotiates from Washington D.C., while the President, a Veteran, fights to rescue the hostages on board.

GET OFF MY PLANE!
– President James Marshall

Give me the strap!
– Agent Gibbs
I trusted you with my life.
– President James Marshall
So will the next President. Now, give it to me.
– Agent Gibbs

I know what you’re thinking, First Lady. You want me dead. Well, it might come to that. In the war, people die.
– Ivan Korshunov
This isn’t war! You just murdered an unarmed woman.
– Grace
You, who murdered a 100,000 Iraqis to save a nickel on a gallon of gas. Are going to lecture me about the rules of war? Don’t!
– Ivan Korshunov

Okay guys give me some room. I’ve just been ordered to fire on Air Force One.
– Colonel Carlton

If this works, you get to be Postmaster General.
– President James Marshall

Mr. President, the Russian news crew is with us. I told them you’d give them a sound bite about life in the White House.
– Melanie Mitchel
There *is* no life in the White House!
– President James Marshall

I’m counting on you, red, white and blue.
– President James Marshall

Peace isn’t merely the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice.
– President James Marshall

I’m 12 years old, dad. In caveman days I’d be having children of my own.
– Alice Marshall
That’s what we call progress, young lady.
– President James Marshall

When you talk to the President, you might remind him that I am holding his wife, his daughter, his chief of staff, his national security advisor, his classified papers – and his baseball glove!
– Ivan Korshunov

You are a monster, and my father is a great man. You’re nothing like my father!
– Alice Marshall

Your national security advisor has just been executed. He’s a very good negotiator. He bought you another half hour.
– Ivan Korshunov

Kathryn, if you give a mouse a cookie…
– President James Marshall
It’s gonna want a glass of milk.
– Vice President Kathryn Bennett

YOU leave her alone.
– Grace
Shet Up.
– Ivan Korshunov

Pass interference. That’s cheating!
– Alice Marshall
Only if they get caught.
– President James Marshall

How the hell did they get Air Force One?
– Vice President Kathryn Bennett

I would turn my back on God Himself for Mother Russia
– Ivan Korshunov

Where are your chutes, guys?
– President James Marshall
We stay with the president.
– Agent Gibbs
Thank you.
– President James Marshall

We have the President.
– Sergei Lenski

The Vice President in this case is like the Queen of England. You can’t even buy airline tickets without talking to someone like me. Therfore, let me speak to The White House because I can assure you, I’m the one person who can make this all work out.
– National Security Advisor Jack Doherty

Mr. President, welcome aboard, sir!
– Liberty 24 Pilot

Do you know who I am? I’m the President of the United States!
– President James Marshall
Don’t think that means I don’t shoot you!
– Boris Bazylev

Why did you kill him?
– Alice Marshall
Because I believe.
– Ivan Korshunov

Go on, blyad!
– Boris Bazylev

Nobody does this to the United States. The President will get his baseball glove back and play catch with this guy’s balls!
– General Northwood