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Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisor...
[Khan discovers the Enterprise and realizes it isn't as badly damaged as he thought] Khan: There she is! There she is! Ah... not so wounded as we were led to believe. So much the better!
Kirk: I suppose you're about to remind me that logic alone dictates your actions? Spock: I would not remind you of that which you know so well.
Kirk: Khan, how do I know you'll keep your word? Khan: Oh, I've given you no word to keep, Admiral. In my judgment, you simply have no alternative.
Kirk: Engine room. Well done, Scotty! McCoy: Jim... I think you'd better get down here. Kirk: Bones? McCoy: Better hurry...
Saavik: Trouble with the nebula, sir. All that static discharge and gas will cloud our visual display. Tactical won't function, and shields will be useless! Spock: Sauce for the goose, Mr Saavik - the odds will be even!
McCoy: Admiral, wouldn't it be easier to put an experienced crew back on the ship? Kirk: Galloping around the cosmos is a game for the young, Doctor. [Leaves] Commander Nyota Uhura: Now what is that supposed to mean?
[Kirk remotely commands Reliant's shields to drop] Joachim: Our shields are dropping. Khan: Then raise them! Joachim: [pounds fists on console] I can't! Khan: The override. Where's the override?
David Marcus: Don't have kittens, Genesis is going to work. You'll be remembered in one breath with Newton, Einstein, Surak... Carol Marcus: Huh! No respect from my offspring.
[Saavik has just left the turbolift] Dr. McCoy: Did she change her hairstyle? Kirk: I hadn't noticed. Dr. McCoy: Wonderful stuff, that Romulan Ale.
[Smithsonian Guard discovers that Captain America's World War II uniform has been stolen] Smithsonian Guard: Oh, man. I am so fired.
Danny Butterman: What about... 'Lethal Weapon'? Nicholas Angel: No. Danny Butterman: You've seen 'Die Hard', though? Nicholas Angel: No. Danny Butterman: 'Bad Boys II'? Nicholas Angel: No. Danny Butterman: You ain't seen 'Bad Boys II'?
O-Dog: I'll be larger then that nigga Steven Seagal I'll be a big-ass-movie-star, shit. A-Wax: Yeah that shit was cool, but I would have it done much better - it's all about A-wax.
Caine: I seen lotsa people killed before, but I ain't never done it myself. I mean, I never had a reason to. But when they killed my cousin, I knew I was gonna kill them.
Kirk: Physician, heal thyself! McCoy: [Lying on the floor, propping himself up on one elbow] Is that all you've got to say? What about my performance? Kirk: I'm not a drama critic!
Khan: [quoting from Melville's Moby Dick] To the last, I will grapple with thee... from Hell's heart, I stab at thee! For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!
Saavik: [speaking to Spock in Vulcan] He's never what I expect, sir. Spock: What surprises you, Lieutenant? Saavik: He's so - human. Spock: Nobody's perfect, Saavik.
Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of women, moving women into the workplace; our feelings about our role in the world. All of that comes in a v...
We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.
We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.
