TV show quotes
[Apollo confronts Colonel Tigh after finding that he dealt in the Fleet's black market.]
Don't you play "holier than thou" with me. I haven't done anything that most people on this ship haven't done. Including you.
Doesn't make us right, Colonel, just a whole lot of people wrong.
[Roslin tries to convince Baltar to resign the Vice Presidency.]
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.
You what?
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.
Charming.
Doctor. This is a one-time offer. I suggest you reconsider.
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.
It is funny. You know the President says that we're saving humanity for a bright, shiny future on Earth. That you and I are never gonna see. We're not. Because we go out over and over again until someday, some metal motherfrakker is gonna catch us on a bad day and just blow us away.
Bright, shiny futures are overrated anyway.
Cylon raiders tend to isolate the wingman and gang up on individual Vipers before his wingman can protect him. [a crewman walks in and hands Starbuck a notice]... which is exactly what happened to JoJo twenty minutes ago.
[engaging the Cylon Raider Scar with a near-suicidal charge] How does it feel, you bastard? One of us has to pull up, and it sure isn't going to be me!
So say we all!
[After a bout of negotiations with Sesha Abinell, leader of the Cloud 9 terrorists, Adama briefly confers with Tigh.]
Saul, we can't give her Sharon. I hope you know that, right?
I know that. Against our dealing with the terrorists... if we start now, it'll open the floodgates; and it will never stop. And by the way, it's not Sharon. It's a frakking Cylon.
You don't think I know that?
I think there's part of you that looks into that thing's eyes and still sees that young girl that reported aboard two years ago as a rook pilot. Well, it's not. It never was. Bill, it's a machine.
[Following the Cylon ambush of Pegasus and the death of Commander Barry Garner (Pegasus's commanding officer).]
In your opinion, off the record, what was Garner's flaw?
He was used to working with machines. Command is about people.
Remember that, as you take command of "The Beast". Garner was my decision; his failures, my responsibility. Don't let me fail a second time. Congratulations, Commander.
[About Garner]
So, barely competent and paranoid? That's a hell of a combination.
[Caprica-Sharon has gone into premature labor with her Hybrid baby.]
I find it absolutely amazing you people went to all the trouble to appear human, and didn't upgrade the plumbing.
[Six and Three are talking about Boomer-Eight's resistance to her Cylon psychology]
Caprica, you don't understand. She really needs your help. If we don't turn her around soon, there's talk of boxing her.
Putting her memories in cold storage? You can't be serious.
[sardonically] Well, that's a charming way to deal with emotional problems! One might almost call it inhuman. Oh, that's right, you are!
[Six is talking to the original Galactica-Sharon about Baltar's house.]
I always loved the view. Sunlight on the water. It's my favorite spot in the universe.
Yeah, it's magical. Too bad you nuked it.
[Roslin, Baltar, Admiral Adama and Colonel Tigh discuss what to do with the hybrid baby.]
If the baby does survive, the question is -- what do we do with it?
Do? What are you suggesting? That we throw it out of an airlock?
I don't make suggestions, Mr. Baltar. If I want to toss a baby out of an airlock, I'd say so.
Look, God loves you.
[showing photo of her Galactica crewmates] This is love. These people loved me. I loved them. I didn't pretend to feel something so I could screw people over. I loved them. And then I betrayed them. I shot a man I loved. Frakked over another man, ruined his life. And why? Because I'm a lying machine. I'm a frakking Cylon!
[Roslin is trying to control her pre-debate giggles.]
You just have to really try to think about something serious. That always helps, right?
Like what?
Well, like, uh... [they look at each other and crack up laughing]
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