Michael Garibaldi quotes from Babylon 5

Lennier

It was the year of fire...

Zack Allan

...the year of destruction...

G'Kar

...the year we took back what was ours.

Lyta Alexander

It was the year of rebirth...

Vir Cotto

...the year of great sadness...

Marcus Cole

...the year of pain...

Delenn

...and a year of joy.

Londo Mollari

It was...a new age.

Stephen Franklin

It was the end of history.

Susan Ivanova

It was the year everything changed.

Michael Garibaldi

The year is 2261.

John Sheridan

The place, Babylon 5.

Michael Garibaldi

That is a hell of a lot of ships.

Susan Ivanova

And more on the way. The captain wants the biggest fleet in history if we're gonna end this war. The way things are shaping up out there it looks like he just might get it.

Garibaldi

And then what?

Ivanova

And then what what?

Garibaldi

Well if we lose, there is no "then what", and if we win, what next? We're still renegades. I don't think there's anybody left on this side of the galactic core we haven't already honked off. We can't go home. Sometimes I don't know which scares me more, winning or losing.

Ivanova

God, I thought I was depressing.

It's one-third your fee!

Michael Garibaldi

It is? [looking] Yeah, it is. Well, I am going to have to take this up with Bookkeeping. I mean, this hardly even covers my expenses. I--well, now that I think about it, I am the Bookkeeping Department. I'll tell you what. I don't wanna get me into trouble over this, so...why don't we just let it go at 30%?

Michael Garibaldi

Everybody lies.

William Edgars

That's a very sad view of the universe, Mr. Garibaldi.

Garibaldi

Yeah, well, it's the only one I got. And it works for me.

Edgars

Do you know how the ancient Greeks defined happiness?

Garibaldi

Not off-hand, but I'd be willing to bet it involved three goats and a jug of wine.

Edgars

"Happiness", they said, was "the exercise of vital powers along lines of excellence, in a life affording them scope".

William Edgars

The truth will be revealed in a couple of days. How many people can say that?

Michael Garibaldi

I don't know. But I think the last guy got thirty pieces of silver for the same job.

Lyta Alexander

Michael, if I do a deep scan, it could damage you.

Michael Garibaldi

And if you don't, they're gonna kill me. Now, a headache I can get over. I'm not sure I'm gonna get over being dead anytime soon.

Lyta

It's true. What he told us, it's all true.

Like that means a damn! How do we know that anything you say is the truth? You could be saying whatever the hell you want–

Lyta

What do YOU know about Hell? Hmm? [she turns to face Number One, her eyes completely black] Would you like me to show it to you? Mine and his?

[recoils] It's true. Damned, it's true!

Garibaldi

Okay, who gulped? Somebody gulped. We have got a long way to go. We're supposed to sip, not gulp.

Franklin

I didn't gulp.

Lyta

I sipped.

Garibaldi

[to Lyta] You I believe.

Franklin

[chagrined] What? Why do you believe her and not me?

Garibaldi

Because when you lie, it's all over your face. She's a better liar than you are.

Lyta

Thank you. [pause] Wait a minute! [...] What do you mean I'm a good liar?

Lochley

What the hell is your problem?

Michael Garibaldi

For starters, I don't know you, therefore I don't trust you.

Lochley

The world's full of people you don't know.

Garibaldi

I worry about that all the time.

Lochley

Tough. Get over it.

It's some guy's fantasy. A love hungry red-head who will disappear in the morning never to be seen again!

Michael Garibaldi

I'm sorry Dodger, what were you saying?

[frustrated] It's a good thing I'm only here another hour or so, cupcake. Two weeks of this, I'd kill you.

Michael Garibaldi

What's with the streets? They're so narrow, you can hardly get by.

Tradition. Goes back centuries. To prevent invaders from taking their city, they built their streets too narrow for armies or engines of war. When you have to go by two or three at a time, you are most vulnerable.

Michael Garibaldi

See, now you can fly over and drop these things called "bombs".

I'm sorry.

Michael Garibaldi

I don't want you to be sorry. I don't need your pity. I don't need anybody's pity. All I know is that I'm tired of being controlled. Controlled by others, by fear, by my past, by what everybody else expects of me and it's enough. Enough. And this? [points at the bottle] This is my own private little act of rebellion, yeah. I may not be able to control what other people do to me, but I can at least be in control what I do to myself.

Michael Garibaldi

I need to know, Lyta. Something's happened to your abilities. You're not a P-5 anymore, hell, you're not even a P-12. You're the strongest telepath I've ever seen. What did the Vorlons do to you, Lyta? Who…what are you?

Lyta

I've only recently begun to understand it myself. You know the Vorlons used telepaths as weapons during the Shadow War, but what no one stopped to consider was that in a war, you have a certain number of small weapons, a certain number of medium-size weapons, and one or two big ones. The kind of weapons you drop when you're out of small weapons and the medium weapons and you've got nothing left to use.

Garibaldi

Someone like that would be the telepathic equivalent of a thermonuclear device. A doomsday weapon.

Lyta

Pleased to meet you, Mr. Garibaldi.

Sheridan

A toast. To...absent friends. In memory still bright.

Michael Garibaldi

G'Kar.

Vir

Londo.

Delenn

Lennier.

Franklin

Mar--

Susan Ivanova

Marcus.

Vir Cotto

You know, Londo never liked the Pak'ma'ra. They're stubborn, lazy, obnoxious, greedy—

Michael Garibaldi

They kinda look like an octopus that got run over by a truck.

Vir

That too! But one day, Londo and I were walking past their quarters, and we heard them…singing.

John Sheridan

Singing? They can sing?

Stephen Franklin

There's nothing in the literature about that.

Vir

Apparently, it's something they only do certain times of the year as part of their religious ceremonies. You may not believe this, but, it was the most beautiful sound I have ever heard. I-I-I couldn't make out the words, but I knew it was full of sadness and hope and wonder and a terrible…sense of loss. I-I looked at Londo, and, this is the amazing part…there was a tear running down his face. I said, "Londo, we-we should leave. I mean, this is upsetting you." And he just stood there and listened. And when it was over, he turned to me and he said, "There are 49 gods in our pantheon, Vir. To tell you the truth, I never believed in any of them. But if only one of them exists, then God sings with that voice." It's funny. After everything we had been through…all he did? I miss him.

Sheridan

A toast. To…absent friends. In memory still bright.

Garibaldi

G'Kar.

Vir

Londo.

Delenn

Lennier.

Franklin

Mar—

Susan Ivanova

Marcus.