Air Force One (1997)
Glenn Close: Vice President Kathryn Bennett
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Quotes
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President James Marshall : Kathryn, if you give a mouse a cookie...
Vice President Kathryn Bennett : It's gonna want a glass of milk.
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White House General : [after hearing the president] My God! Is he saying what I think he's saying?
Vice President Kathryn Bennett : If we're going to act, we have to act now.
Defense Secretary Walter Dean : It's too risky.
Vice President Kathryn Bennett : The president is up there with a gun to his head.
General Northwood : He asking us to do that to Air Force One?
Vice President Kathryn Bennett : He's not asking. Your Commander-in-Chief has issued a direct order. Do it!
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Ivan Korshunov : When you talk to the President, you might remind him that I am holding his wife, his daughter, his chief of staff, his national security advisor, his classified papers - and his baseball glove! If he wants them back, he will prevail upon the puppet regime in Moscow to release General Radek. Fifty for one. It's a good deal. How's your blouse?
Vice President Kathryn Bennett : What assurances do I have that you'll keep your word?
Ivan Korshunov : I'll wait for confirmation that General Radek has been released. Until then... I will execute a hostage every half an hour. You have my word.
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Defense Secretary Walter Dean : We found the escape pod. It's empty.
Vice President Kathryn Bennett : So where's the president?
Defense Secretary Walter Dean : I think we have to acknowledge the possibility that the president may be dead.
White House Aide Thomas Lee : Why wouldn't they tell us?
Defense Secretary Walter Dean : Diversion. Try to buy some time. It could've happened in a crossfire, and they're afraid we'll retaliate.
General Northwood : Damn right we'll retaliate. We'll release General Radek into the god damn atmosphere.
Vice President Kathryn Bennett : It doesn't add up. That terrorist knew that we'd recover the pod in short order. He expected that we'd be talking to Marshall.
White House General : Let's not bury him yet. He could still be alive on that plane. Let's not forget this president is a Medal of Honor winner. In Vietnam, he flew more helicopter rescue missions than any man in my command. He knows how to fight.
Vice President Kathryn Bennett : Then he's taking a terrible chance with his life.
White House General : The element of surprise is a formidable advantage in combat. If he's up there, he's the best chance that we have.
Vice President Kathryn Bennett : That pod was designed for a reason, General. He has no right to take chances with his life.
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General Northwood : Moscow police found six members of a Russian TV news crew murdered. The same crew that was cleared to fly on Air Force One.
White House Aide Thomas Lee : Jesus.
Vice President Kathryn Bennett : Oh, please tell me it's not that easy.
White House Aide Thomas Lee : No. You would have to generate fake ID, photo, fingerprints.
General Northwood : Could be with a little help from Moscow.
Vice President Kathryn Bennett : How would they get the weapons on board the plane?
Defense Secretary Walter Dean : There's no way to get weapons aboard Air Force One. It's impossible.
Vice President Kathryn Bennett : Well, there are enough weapons already on board to take Panama, but who has access to them?
Defense Secretary Walter Dean : You think someone on the plane helped them?
Vice President Kathryn Bennett : What if somebody did and they're still on the plane? Who do they trust up there? Who do we trust?
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Ivan Korshunov : I understand that Air Force One can refuel in mid-air. Well we need fuel, and we need it now.
Vice President Kathryn Bennett : I'm sure we can come to some kind of arrangement. If you land the plane we'll trade fuel for hostages.
Ivan Korshunov : This is bullshit! It's simple physics. Without fuel the plane crashes,
[scoffs]
Ivan Korshunov : everybody dies!
Vice President Kathryn Bennett : We're trying to do everything we can.
Ivan Korshunov : Tell me what I want to hear or I will execute a member of the senior staff and continue killing one hostage every minute until the plane crashes, or refueling plane arrive. Well what do you say?
Vice President Kathryn Bennett : Fuel's on its way.
Ivan Korshunov : Thank you.
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Vice President Kathryn Bennett : What does the psych profile say? How far do they say he'll go?
Defense Secretary Walter Dean : He's a Radek loyalist. That tells us all we need to know, doesn't it?
White House Aide Thomas Lee : He'll see this thing through to the last hostage or his own death.
Defense Secretary Walter Dean : You release this bastard, and all of Central Asia will go up in flames!
Vice President Kathryn Bennett : I'm well aware of that.
Defense Secretary Walter Dean : Bring back the old Soviet empire under a flag of genocide? Radek with a nuclear arsenal? I hate to say this, but 50 people is a small price to pay to stop that from happening.
White House Aide Thomas Lee : Even if one of them is the president?
Defense Secretary Walter Dean : The presidency is bigger than any one man. Didn't they teach you that at Yale?
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Vice President Kathryn Bennett : How the hell did they get Air Force One?
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Vice President Kathryn Bennett : This is the Vice President of the United States. To whom am I speaking?
Ivan Korshunov : This is the person who controls Air Force One. The world's most... secure aircraft.
Vice President Kathryn Bennett : What is it that you want?
Ivan Korshunov : We'll get to that.
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Vice President Kathryn Bennett : Can't we release him today and pick up the pieces tomorrow? We caught him before, we catch him again.
Defense Secretary Walter Dean : If Petrov releases Radek, his government will fall. I promise you that. Then who's gonna stand up to Radek? You go to catch him again, you're gonna find him in Moscow.
White House Aide Thomas Lee : With all respect, Mr. Secretary, we don't need more dramatics. We need options.
Defense Secretary Walter Dean : It's not an option.
White House Aide Thomas Lee : We need a decision.
Defense Secretary Walter Dean : It's not her decision.
Vice President Kathryn Bennett : No?
Defense Secretary Walter Dean : This is a military situation. I'm the Secretary of Defense. Check your regs. In the absence of the president, the buck stops here.
Vice President Kathryn Bennett : Get the Attorney General with a copy of the Constitution. We have...
[checking their watches]
Vice President Kathryn Bennett : Oh, my god! 19 minutes. I'm gonna consult with President Petrov.
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Vice President Kathryn Bennett : I want to understand what it is that you want.
Ivan Korshunov : What do I want? When Mother Russia becomes one great nation again, when the capitalists are dragged from the Kremlin and shot in the street, when our enemies run and hide in fear at the mention of our name, and America begs our forgiveness on that great day of deliverance, you will know what I want.
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Vice President Kathryn Bennett : What are your intentions?
Ivan Korshunov : What arrogance... to think you could ever understand my intentions!