Dr. Strangelove or - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Quotes
Major T. J. "King" Kong : Stay on the bomb run, boys! I'm gonna get them doors open if it harelips ever'body on Bear Creek!
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[ discussing the Doomsday machine ]
President Merkin Muffley : How is it possible for this thing to be triggered automatically and at the same time impossible to untrigger?
Dr. Strangelove : Mr. President, it is not only possible, it is essential. That is the whole idea of this machine, you know. Deterrence is the art of producing in the mind of the enemy... the FEAR to attack. And so, because of the automated and irrevocable decision-making process which rules out human meddling, the Doomsday machine is terrifying and simple to understand... and completely credible and convincing.
President Merkin Muffley : How is it possible for this thing to be triggered automatically and at the same time impossible to untrigger?
Dr. Strangelove : Mr. President, it is not only possible, it is essential. That is the whole idea of this machine, you know. Deterrence is the art of producing in the mind of the enemy... the FEAR to attack. And so, because of the automated and irrevocable decision-making process which rules out human meddling, the Doomsday machine is terrifying and simple to understand... and completely credible and convincing.
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General "Buck" Turgidson : Is that the Russian ambassador you're talking about?
President Merkin Muffley : Yes it is, General.
General "Buck" Turgidson : A-A-Am I to understand the *Russian* ambassador is to be admitted entrance to th-the War Room?
President Merkin Muffley : That is correct, he is here on my orders.
General "Buck" Turgidson : I... I don't know exactly how to put this, sir, but are you aware of what a serious breach of security that would be? I mean, he'll see everything, he'll... he'll see the Big Board!
President Merkin Muffley : Yes it is, General.
General "Buck" Turgidson : A-A-Am I to understand the *Russian* ambassador is to be admitted entrance to th-the War Room?
President Merkin Muffley : That is correct, he is here on my orders.
General "Buck" Turgidson : I... I don't know exactly how to put this, sir, but are you aware of what a serious breach of security that would be? I mean, he'll see everything, he'll... he'll see the Big Board!
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General Jack D. Ripper : Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.
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[ General Turgenson's phone rings in the war room ]
General "Buck" Turgidson : Hello... [ whispering ]
General "Buck" Turgidson : I told you never to call me here, don't you know where I am?... Well look, baby, I c-, I *can't* talk to you now... my president needs me!... Of *course* Bucky'd rather be there with you!... Of *course* it isn't only physical!... I deeply respect you as a human being... Some day I'm gonna make you *Mrs* Buck Turgidson!... Oh, listen uh, you go back to sleep hon, and Bucky'll be back there just as soon as he can... All right... listen, sug, don't forget to say your prayers!
General "Buck" Turgidson : Hello... [ whispering ]
General "Buck" Turgidson : I told you never to call me here, don't you know where I am?... Well look, baby, I c-, I *can't* talk to you now... my president needs me!... Of *course* Bucky'd rather be there with you!... Of *course* it isn't only physical!... I deeply respect you as a human being... Some day I'm gonna make you *Mrs* Buck Turgidson!... Oh, listen uh, you go back to sleep hon, and Bucky'll be back there just as soon as he can... All right... listen, sug, don't forget to say your prayers!
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General "Buck" Turgidson : Mr. President, we must not allow a mineshaft gap!
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General Jack D. Ripper : Were you ever a prisoner of war?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Well... yes I was, matter of fact, Jack. I was.
General Jack D. Ripper : Did they torture you?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Uh, yes they did. I was tortured by the Japanese. Jack, if you must know; not a pretty story.
General Jack D. Ripper : Well, what happened?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Oh, well, I don't know, Jack, difficult to think of under these conditions; but, well... what happened was they got me on the old Rangoon-Ichinawa railway. I was laying train lines for the bloody Japanese puff-puff's.
General Jack D. Ripper : No, I mean when they tortured you. Did you talk?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Ah, oh, no... well, I don't think they wanted me to talk really. I don't think they wanted me to say anything. It was just their way of having a bit of fun, the swines. Strange thing is they make such bloody good cameras.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Well... yes I was, matter of fact, Jack. I was.
General Jack D. Ripper : Did they torture you?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Uh, yes they did. I was tortured by the Japanese. Jack, if you must know; not a pretty story.
General Jack D. Ripper : Well, what happened?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Oh, well, I don't know, Jack, difficult to think of under these conditions; but, well... what happened was they got me on the old Rangoon-Ichinawa railway. I was laying train lines for the bloody Japanese puff-puff's.
General Jack D. Ripper : No, I mean when they tortured you. Did you talk?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Ah, oh, no... well, I don't think they wanted me to talk really. I don't think they wanted me to say anything. It was just their way of having a bit of fun, the swines. Strange thing is they make such bloody good cameras.
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General Jack D. Ripper : The base is being put on Condition Red. I want this flashed to all sections immediately.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Condition Red, sir, yes, jolly good idea. That keeps the men on their toes.
General Jack D. Ripper : Group Captain, I'm afraid this is not an exercise.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Not an exercise, sir?
General Jack D. Ripper : I shouldn't tell you this, Mandrake, but you're a good officer and you've a right to know. It looks like we're in a shooting war.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Oh, hell. Are the Russians involved, sir?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Condition Red, sir, yes, jolly good idea. That keeps the men on their toes.
General Jack D. Ripper : Group Captain, I'm afraid this is not an exercise.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Not an exercise, sir?
General Jack D. Ripper : I shouldn't tell you this, Mandrake, but you're a good officer and you've a right to know. It looks like we're in a shooting war.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Oh, hell. Are the Russians involved, sir?
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General Jack D. Ripper : Mandrake, have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Well, no, I can't say I have.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Well, no, I can't say I have.
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Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Do I look all rancid and clotted? You look at me, Jack. Eh? Look, eh? And I drink a lot of water, you know. I'm what you might call a water man, Jack - that's what I am. And I can swear to you, my boy, swear to you, that there's nothing wrong with my bodily fluids. Not a thing, Jackie.
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Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : If you don't put that gun away and stop this stupid nonsense, the court of Enquiry on this'll give you such a pranging, you'll be lucky if you end up wearing the uniform of a bloody toilet attendant.
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[ Strangelove's plan for post-nuclear war survival involves living underground with a 10: 1 female-to-male ratio ]
General "Buck" Turgidson : Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Dr. Strangelove : Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
Ambassador de Sadesky : I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.
General "Buck" Turgidson : Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Dr. Strangelove : Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
Ambassador de Sadesky : I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.
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Dr. Strangelove : Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*! Why didn't you tell the world, EH?
Ambassador de Sadesky : It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. As you know, the Premier loves surprises.
Ambassador de Sadesky : It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. As you know, the Premier loves surprises.
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Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : [ trying to pay for his phone call ] Colonel, they will not let me through without the right amount. Do you have an extra 18 cents on you?
Colonel "Bat" Guano : You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do you?
Colonel "Bat" Guano : You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do you?
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General "Buck" Turgidson : Hmm... Strangelove? What kind of a name is that? That ain't no Kraut name is it, Stainesey?
Mr. Staines : He changed it when he became a citizen. Used to be Merkwürdigeliebe. [ the German word for "Strangelove" ]
General "Buck" Turgidson : Well, a Kraut by any other name, uh Stainesey?
Mr. Staines : He changed it when he became a citizen. Used to be Merkwürdigeliebe. [ the German word for "Strangelove" ]
General "Buck" Turgidson : Well, a Kraut by any other name, uh Stainesey?
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Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Is it that bad, sir?
General Jack D. Ripper : Looks like it's pretty hairy.
General Jack D. Ripper : Looks like it's pretty hairy.
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General "Buck" Turgidson : Mr. President, if I may speak freely, the Russkie talks big, but frankly, we think he's short of know how. I mean, you just can't expect a bunch of ignorant peons to understand a machine like some of our boys. And that's not meant as an insult, Mr. Ambassador, I mean, you take your average Russkie, we all know how much guts he's got. Hell, lookit look at all them them Nazis killed off and they still wouldn't quit.
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[ first lines ]
Narrator : For more than a year, ominous rumors had been privately circulating among high-level Western leaders that the Soviet Union had been at work on what was darkly hinted to be the ultimate weapon: a doomsday device. Intelligence sources traced the site of the top secret Russian project to the perpetually fog-shrouded wasteland below the Arctic peaks of the Zhokhov Islands. What they were building or why it should be located in such a remote and desolate place no one could say.
Narrator : For more than a year, ominous rumors had been privately circulating among high-level Western leaders that the Soviet Union had been at work on what was darkly hinted to be the ultimate weapon: a doomsday device. Intelligence sources traced the site of the top secret Russian project to the perpetually fog-shrouded wasteland below the Arctic peaks of the Zhokhov Islands. What they were building or why it should be located in such a remote and desolate place no one could say.
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President Merkin Muffley : You mean people could actually stay down there for a hundred years?
Dr. Strangelove : It would not be difficult, Mein Führer. Nuclear reactors could - heh, I'm sorry, Mr. President - nuclear reactors could provide power almost indefinitely.
Dr. Strangelove : It would not be difficult, Mein Führer. Nuclear reactors could - heh, I'm sorry, Mr. President - nuclear reactors could provide power almost indefinitely.
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President Merkin Muffley : Why haven't you radioed the plans countermanding the go-code?
General "Buck" Turgidson : Well... I'm afraid we're unable to communicate with any of the aircraft.
President Merkin Muffley : Why?
General "Buck" Turgidson : As you may recall, sir, one of the provisions of Plan 'R' provides that once the go-code is received, the normal SSB Radios on the aircraft are switched into a specially coded device which I believe is designated as CRM-114. Now, in order to prevent the enemy from issuing fake or confusing orders, CRM-114 is designed not to receive at all. Unless the message is the correct three-letter recall code prefix.
President Merkin Muffley : You mean to tell me, General Turgidson, that you will be unable to recall the aircraft?
General "Buck" Turgidson : That's about the size of it. However, at this moment our men are plowing through and transmitting every possible three-letter combination of the recall code. But since there are over 17,000 permutations... it's going to take us about two-and-a-half days to transmit them all.
President Merkin Muffley : How soon did you say our planes will be entering Russian radar cover?
General "Buck" Turgidson : About 18 minutes from now, sir.
General "Buck" Turgidson : Well... I'm afraid we're unable to communicate with any of the aircraft.
President Merkin Muffley : Why?
General "Buck" Turgidson : As you may recall, sir, one of the provisions of Plan 'R' provides that once the go-code is received, the normal SSB Radios on the aircraft are switched into a specially coded device which I believe is designated as CRM-114. Now, in order to prevent the enemy from issuing fake or confusing orders, CRM-114 is designed not to receive at all. Unless the message is the correct three-letter recall code prefix.
President Merkin Muffley : You mean to tell me, General Turgidson, that you will be unable to recall the aircraft?
General "Buck" Turgidson : That's about the size of it. However, at this moment our men are plowing through and transmitting every possible three-letter combination of the recall code. But since there are over 17,000 permutations... it's going to take us about two-and-a-half days to transmit them all.
President Merkin Muffley : How soon did you say our planes will be entering Russian radar cover?
General "Buck" Turgidson : About 18 minutes from now, sir.
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[ first title card ]
Title Card : It is the stated position of the U.S. Air Force that their safeguards would prevent the occurrence of such events as are depicted in this film. Furthermore, it should be noted that none of the characters portrayed in this film are meant to represent any real persons living or dead.
Title Card : It is the stated position of the U.S. Air Force that their safeguards would prevent the occurrence of such events as are depicted in this film. Furthermore, it should be noted that none of the characters portrayed in this film are meant to represent any real persons living or dead.
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President Merkin Muffley : I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler.
General "Buck" Turgidson : Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American People than with your image in the history books.
General "Buck" Turgidson : Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American People than with your image in the history books.
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Lieutenant Lothar Zogg : Hey, where'd Major Kong go?
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