Starship Troopers Quotes

Carmen: Incoming plasma energy bolts from the planet's surface, ma'am.
Captain Deladier: Bug batteries. According to Military Intelligence, it will be random and light. Drop status?
Zander: Troop drop status is 35% complete, ma'am.
[from the bridge more and more bug plasma energy bolts are seen zoom by, two coming dangerously

close to the ship. Carman looks back at Captain Deladier with concern]
Captain Deladier: Steady as she goes, Number Two. Prepare for warp.

Net Correspondent: No one here in the AQZ knows exactly when the invasion of klendathu will occur. But everyone's talking about it and the talk says tomorrow. Here's a bunch of M.I. kids that look like they could eat bugs for lunch.
Dizzy Flores: [chuckling] Yum, yum, yum.
Net Correspondent: So trooper, you're not too worried about

fighting the Arachnids?
Ace Levy: Hey shoot a nuke down a bug hole, you got a lot of dead bugs am I right?
Kitten Smith: I just hope it's not over before we get some.
Net Correspondent: Some say the bugs were provoked by the intrusion of humans into their natural habitat, that a "Live-and-let-live" policy is preferable to war

with the bugs.
Johnny Rico: Let me tell you something. I'm from Buenos Aires, and I say kill them all!

[as the unloading of Mobile Infantry from the starfleet continues, one transport is hit and destroyed by planetary bug plasma energy fire as hundreds of plasma energy bolts are flying all around the starfleet]
Captain Deladier: This isn't random or light. Someone made a mistake.
Zander: That's it. Drop status is 100%. We're empty, ma'am.

[suddenly in front of them, a starship's starboard engines are hit by plasma energy fire. Captain Deladier, Carmen and Zander look in horror as the ship veers off course and crashes into another starship, setting both afire]
Captain Deladier: Someone made a BIG goddamn mistake! Break for high orbit! Evasive action, now!

Johnny Rico: This is Roughneck Two-Zero-One. We are under heavy attack!
Radio operator: [voice] But we have Planet P as secure.
Johnny Rico: This place crawls, sir! I request retrieval, now!
Radio operator: [voice] What is your location?
Johnny Rico: Come down on this transmission.
Radio operator: [voice] On the

outpost? That's crazy!
Johnny Rico: Well, I hope you have a crazy pilot. Out.

[reporting on the failed invasion of Klendathu]
Newsreel announcer: Crisis for humankind. Fleet officials admit they underestimated the Arachnids' defensive capability.
[switch over to the Federal council]
Newsreel announcer: Accepting responsibility for Klendathu, Sky Marshal Dienes resigns. His successor, Sky Marshal Tehat Maru, outlines her

new strategy.
Sky Marshal Tehat Meru: To fight the bug, we must understand the bug. We can ill afford another Klendathu.
Newsreel announcer: Would you like to know more?

Carl: So you haven't done it yet, have you? Don't lie!
Johnny Rico: I'm not in any hurry.
Carl: [Indicating Dizzy Flores] Others are waiting.
Johnny Rico: [Looking at Dizzy] Did you read her mind?
Carl: Don't have to. It's pretty clear what she wants.
Johnny

Rico: Yeah, but I want Carmen.
Carl: Oh, you got it bad!

Expert: When a colony reaches a certain size, 300 generations or something, it gets smarter.
Expert: Insects with intelligence? Have you ever met one? I can't believe I'm hearing this nonsense. This is the most ridiculous conversation I have ever had.
Expert: Would you just wait a moment
[steps on his shoe to get his

attention]
Expert: Maybe, there is some kind of bug that we haven't seen yet, a leadership caste, a hive brain.
Expert: Brain? Bugs? Frankly, I find the idea of a bug that thinks offensive!