Laura Roslin quotes from Battlestar Galactica (2003)

Remember, just head away from the sound of gunfire.

Roslin

What about you?

We're heading towards the gunfire.

Roslin

[to the Quorum of Twelve] Thank you all for coming. I have a statement I would like to make. The attempted military coup against the lawful government of the Colonies is illegal, ill-advised, and clearly doomed to failure. I have not resigned the Presidency, and I will fight this action with everything at my command.

Tigh

She's crazy. She's nuts! She thinks she's a prophet or some such nonsense. Go ahead and ask her, she'll tell you. Just listen to her! What was it, the...Arrow Of Apollo will open the Tomb of...Artemis, or some such nonsense.

Roslin

Everything I have done is consistent and logical. We have found Kobol, we have found the City of the Gods, and when we retrieve the Arrow, we will open the tomb of Athena, and we will find the road to Earth.

Roslin

Doctor, I need your help, but it's illegal, dangerous, and a violation of your oath as an officer.

You're a lousy salesman.

Adama

I took your advice, met on common ground.

Roslin

And what was that?

Adama

We both wanted to live.

Roslin

The spirit of the law requires something here more than summary executions.

Cain

[to Roslin and Adama] Is this what the two of you have been doing for the past six months? Debating the finer points of Colonial law? Well, guess what, we're at war! And we don't have the luxury of academic debate over these issues!

Roslin

You saved my life. And I'm grateful. But I sense that there is some unease in you about assuming the presidency, and I'd like to offer you an out.

Baltar

You what?

Roslin

Resign. Return to your scientific work o­n Galactica. No o­ne will question your motives. You can consider it a second chance, like the o­ne you gave me.

Baltar

Charming.

Roslin

Doctor. This is a o­ne-time offer. I suggest you reconsider.

Baltar

You know, Madame President, I've never been particularly interested in politics. I never wanted any lofty position of power. I never wanted to be the Vice President. That is, until this very moment. Because right now, I can't think of anything I want more.

Roslin

If the baby does survive, the question is -- what do we do with it?

Baltar

Do? What are you suggesting? That we throw it out of an airlock?

Roslin

I don't make suggestions, Mr. Baltar. If I want to toss a baby out of an airlock, I'd say so.

Adama

You just have to really try to think about something serious. That always helps, right?

Roslin

Like what?

Adama

Well, like, uh... [they look at each other and crack up laughing]

Baltar

Not your night, I guess.

Roslin

Why don't you go frak yourself?

Tigh

You see, little things like that don't really matter anymore. In fact, not too frakking much does matter anymore. I got one job here, lady: to keep the Cylons preoccupied with the hornets' nest they've stirred up down here so they're off-balance and out of position when the Old Man shows up in orbit. The bombings? They got the Cylons' attention, they really got their attention, and I am not giving that up.

Roslin

We are talking about people blowing themselves up.

Tigh

You know, sometimes I think that you've got ice water in those veins, and other times I think you're just a naïve little school teacher. I've sent men on suicide missions in two wars now, and let me tell you something: it don't make a Gods' damned bit of difference whether they're riding in a Viper or walking out onto a parade ground. In the end, they're just as dead. (puffs on cigarette) So take your piety and your moralizing and your high-minded principles and stick 'em some place safe till you're off this rock and you're sitting in your nice, cushy chair on Colonial One again. I've got a war to fight.

Don't make me angry, Gaius.

Adama

You wouldn't like her when she's angry.

Roslin

I've always wanted you.

Baltar

Oh no.

Roslin

What?

Baltar

I'm dreaming, aren't I?

Roslin

Yes, you are. [kisses him]

Laura Roslin

[walks over to Adama] Didn't expect you to find you playing in the sand.

Adama

It's not sand it's alluvial deposits, this used to be the river mouth.

And you just had to take off your shoes and play in the alluvial deposits. How romantic.

Roslin

Too bad we're bluffing.

Adama

Are we?

Adama

Mr. Hoshi, order nuclear ground-strike missiles into launch tubes 4-10.

[On the intercom] Aye sir, This is a nuclear mission order...

Roslin

What are you doing?

Adama

Nuking the planet.

Adama

You took the Cylons to the Temple. To the Eye of Jupiter. What did it tell them? What did it tell them about Earth?

Baltar

I wasn't looking for..

Adama

What were you looking for, doctor? What were you looking for?

Baltar

Their faces but they wouldn't show them to me.

Roslin

Their faces? Whose faces?

Baltar

Five. Final Five.

Roslin

The Final Five.. Cylons?

Baltar

I thought I might be one of them. I told them I wanted to be one of them.

Roslin

A Cylon? Why?

Baltar

All my sins forgiven. A new beginning.

Roslin

Are you a Cylon, doctor Baltar?

Baltar

[After a lengthy pause] No..

Adama

[on Kara Thrace's words] What if she's telling the truth? She was supposed to die out there. She didn't. I can't explain it. What if she was meant to help us? And this was a--

Roslin

A what? A miracle? Is that what you want to call this? Go ahead,say it. Grab your piece of the golden arrow. I want to hear admiral atheist say that a miracle happened.

Adama

You shot at her and missed at close range.

Roslin

Doloxan fraks with your aim.

Adama

So does doubt.