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This is a list of quotes used on the "Quote of the Day" portion of the Main Page. Right now, they are selected by date.
January
February
President Laura Roslin: Colonel, once we find the fleet, I'd like to have a word with you.
Colonel Saul Tigh: There's nothing to talk about. You went up against the old man and you lost.
March
Commander William Adama: Every man has to decide for themselves which side they are on.
Captain Lee Adama: I didn't know we were picking sides. (walks off)
Commander Adama: That's why you haven't picked one yet.
April
"The Cylon War is long over. Yet we must not forget the reasons why so many sacrificed so much in the cause of freedom. The cost of wearing the uniform can be high, but... Sometimes it's too high. You know, when we fought the Cylons, we did it to save ourselves from extinction, but we never answered the question "Why?". Why are we as a people worth saving? We still commit murder because of greed and spite and jealousy. And we still visit all of our sins upon our children. We refuse to accept the responsibility for anything that we've done, like we did with the Cylons. We decided to play God, create life. When that life turned against us, we comforted ourselves in the knowledge that it really wasn't our fault. Not really. You cannot play God then wash your hands of the things that you've created. Sooner or later, the day comes when you can't hide from the things that you've done anymore."
--Commander William Adama (Miniseries)
May
Lee Adama: "Did the defendant make mistakes? Sure. He did. Serious mistakes. But did he actually commit any crimes? Did he commit treason? No. I mean, it was an impossible situation. When the Cylons arrived, what could he possibly do? What could anyone have done? [. . .] What would you have done? If he had refused to surrender, the Cylons would have probably nuked the planet right then and there. So did he appear to cooperate with the Cylons? Sure. So did hundreds of others. What's the difference between him and them? The President issued a blanket pardon. They were all forgiven, no questions asked. [. . .] I'd say we are very forgiving of mistakes. We make our own laws now; our own justice. And we've been pretty creative in finding ways to let people off the hook for everything from theft to murder. And we've had to be, because...because we're not a civilization anymore. We are a gang, and we are on the run, and we have to fight to survive. We have to break rules. We have to bend laws. We have to improvise. But not this time, no. Not this time. Not for Gaius Baltar. (looking at Baltar) No, you...you have to die, because, well, because we don't like you very much. Because you're arrogant. Because you're weak. Because you're a coward, and we, the mob, want to throw you out of the airlock, because you didn't stand up the Cylons and get yourself killed in the process. That's justice now. You should have been killed back on New Caprica, but since you had the temerity to live, we're going to execute you now. That's justice. "
--Crossroads, Part II
June
Commander Jack Fisk: Is Madam President always so "right in your face"?
Gaius Baltar: Her last-minute resurrection seems to have invigorated her somewhat.
Fisk: Yeah, well, maybe too much. She doesn't really think her made-up plans and regulations are going to change anything, does she?
July
Number Six: You know you're not safe.
Doctor Gaius Baltar: No, course not. The Cylons will follow us again, as they have the last two hundred and thirty-seven times.
Six: You're right, you know. There are limits. Eventually you'll make a mistake.
Baltar: And then you'll kill us all. Yes. Yes, I know, but...not for another thirty-three minutes.
--33
August
Gaius Baltar: What's all this graph business?
CPO Galen Tyrol: It's a five-paragraph order. It's a basic command tool. It's taught at officer candidate school. It's just not usually used this... literally in the field.
--Fragged
September
"Looking at it in a post-9/11 world, brings with it a different resonance than it did (in 1978 ). It's a surprisingly dark premise. Twelve entire planets are wiped out in the pilot; entire civilizations destroyed and the survivors are on the run from the enemy. They're not heroically doing anything except trying to survive and hunting for a place called Earth... In the original version, where the characters are coming to peace, and in the version I want to tell where they are at peace, suddenly this bolt from the blue happens and it just shocks their collective psyche in a very profound way... What happens to the people in Galactica is what happened to us in September, but in several orders of magnitude larger. It's sort of like saying September 11th happens, but the only people who survive are the people inside the Twin Towers. So it feels like what we'll be able to do is play out the psychic and emotional reverberations of that kind of an apocalypse through the characters and through the series."
--Ronald D. Moore, in an interview with SFX Magazine, June 22
[ As he rips down a NCP recruitment poster ]
"If you work for the toasters, it's treason."
--Lieutenant Tucker "Duck" Clellan (Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance - Episode 1).
"Ladies and gentlemen, please. Please. We are in a laboratory. There are hazardous chemical compounds everywhere. That--that's a thermo-nuclear bomb, for frak's sake, so..."
--Dr. Gaius Baltar (Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down)
Jammer: Wait a minute. You want to hide firearms in the temple?... It's sacrilege.
Colonel Saul Tigh: Well, tell you what. You say a prayer, ask the Gods to forgive us. We move the guns in tonight.
Samuel Anders: Galactica's not coming back. Just accept that.
Colonel Saul Tigh: The old man is not just going to leave us to the Cylons.
"And I don’t like being accused of participating in the genocide of the human race based solely on the word of a woman whom I have already indicated to you may well be a Cylon agent...I did not conspire with the Cylons. I’m an innocent man who is being convicted in the court of public opinion without trial."
--Dr. Gaius Baltar (Six Degrees of Separation)
"Sometimes you gotta roll the hard six."
--Commander William Adama (The Hand of God)
--Captain Lee Adama (Valley of Darkness)
Number Three: Is the love of that man really worth losing all of this?
Caprica-Six: If you had ever experienced love, you wouldn't have to ask.
"Oh, don't blow up on me, you bastard."
--Lt. Kara Thrace (Flight of the Phoenix)
"Can they really be that different from one another? Commander, if you're asking me if it's possible that your judgement's been clouded by your history with this particular Cylon model, well, I'd have to say yes. But... we created them. There's always a chance we might find common ground."
--Laura Roslin (Flight of the Phoenix)
"There's a reason we separate military and the police: one fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."
--Commander William Adama (Water)
"I make these demands not for me... but for you, the people. The survivors of the holocaust and the children of humanity's future. I am Tom Zarek, and this is the first day of a new era."
--Tom Zarek (Bastille Day)
"You never should have brought me back in the service. If you'd just let me be, I'd have died back there on Caprica along with everyone else, and been happier for it. I don't want a command. I never did. Don't you dare die on me now."
--Colonel Saul Tigh (Scattered)
"My name is Gaius Baltar, and I am here to help you."
--Dr. Gaius Baltar (Pegasus)
"In the fight to protect our future, we must confront our past, the lies we've told, the decisions we'd made, the people we have loved. As the struggle for survival continues, we can't face our enemy until we face ourselves."
--Colonel Saul Tigh, narration (Season 3 teaser)
"It suffered no serious head injuries and therefore no physical damage to its neural pathways or cognitive reasoning centers. But it's quite clearly traumatized, which would suggest that its current condition is psychological in nature. Had you thought of that? No. It shows that the Cylon consciousness is just as susceptible to the same pressures and cleavages as the human psyche, it can be manipulated in the same fashion. Simply put, Admiral, you have already used the stick. It's time to use a carrot."
--Dr. Gaius Baltar (Pegasus)
"You have work to do."
--Commander William Adama (Pegasus)
"I have a soul. I see patterns. I know you, you're damaged. You were born to a woman who believes that suffering was good for the soul, so you suffered. Life is a testament to pain, injuries, accidents. Some inflicted upon others, some inflicted upon yourself. Surrounds you like a bubble but it's not... real it's just -- that's just something she put into your head. It's something that you wanna believe 'cause it means that you're the problem, not the world that you live in. You wanna believe it because... it means that you're bad luck. Like a cancer that needs to be removed. Because you hear her voice every day and you want her to be right."
--A copy of Leoben Conoy (Flesh and Bone)
"That is one ugly baby."
--Chief Peter Laird (Pegasus)
"Get your men ready, or I will find someone who can!"
--Admiral William Adama to Commander Lee Adama (Occupation)
October
"This is the Admiral. You've heard the news. You know the mission. You should also know that there is only one way that this mission ends, and that's with the successful rescue of our people off of New Caprica. Look around you. Take a good look at the men and women that stand next to you. Remember their faces, for one day you will tell your children and your grandchildren that you served with such men and women as the universe has never seen. And together you accomplished a feat that will be told and retold down through the ages, and find immortality as only the Gods once knew. I'm proud to serve with you. Good hunting."
--Admiral William Adama (Exodus, Part I)
"There's no boundaries for the Cylons, there's no boundaries for us!"
--Colonel Saul Tigh (Occupation)
"Look, you're worried that I'm not gonna pull it out of the fire with some high-risk retina-detaching move, the way Starbuck would. Well, Kara, I'm sorry you're not suiting up. Because, believe me, everyone will feel so much better, me included, if you were riding along with us. But this isn't an ego trip, this is my job. And don't think for one moment that I will not get it done."
--Captain Lee Adama (The Hand of God)
"Actually, I do [think that my pilots deserve special consideration]. Like everyone else, my pilots have lost their families, and their friends, everyone they ever cared about. But on top of that, they're asked to put their lives on the line every single day for a fleet that seems more interested in what they do wrong than in what they do right. They're not asking for your pity, but they damn well deserve your respect."
--Captain Lee Adama (Final Cut)
"We were docking at Scorpian Fleet Shipyard. We were getting ready to go for a three-month overhaul. Most of the crew was getting ready for extended shore leave and family reunions. XO had the deck. I was down in my quarters, wrapping up some paperwork, and getting ready to pack up and go home to Tauron. And that's when the Cylons attacked. They hit the shipyard with three, maybe four nukes. Five ships, two of them battlestars, they were destroyed right there. And by the time I got back to CIC, I discovered that I'd lost over 700 men."
--Admiral Helena Cain (Pegasus)
Captain Karl "Helo" Agathon: All decks finally report condition one, sir. Should we launch the alert fighters?
Admiral Adama: Begin jump prep. We're leaving. But we'll be back. Start your prep.
Galen Tyrol: This is crazy. You know, we'll need to figure out whose side we're on.
Saul Tigh: Which side are we on? We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We are evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction where ever we go. I'm surprised you didn't know that.
[ After hearing that contact had been established with New Caprica ]
"It's gonna be okay. It's really gonna be okay."
--Admiral William Adama (Occupation)
"Pilots call me 'Starbuck', you may refer to me as 'God'. You have all flown before but you're about to enter a whole new world, so pay attention. We don't have any flight simulators onboard so we're putting you in the cockpit... today. This is a Viper Mark II. It's as maneuverable as a jackrabbit and can flip end for end in point-three-five seconds. You have never flown anything remotely like it so don't think that you have. Today we will be doing basic launch, approach and landing maneuvers. Anyone not paying attention is liable to end up as a puddle of something to be hosed out of the cockpit by the chief of the deck."
--Lt. Kara Thrace (Act of Contrition)
"They expect us to take this lying down? Now you're flying a frakking Raptor. It's humiliating."
--Lt. Kara Thrace (Pegasus)
"This is the Commander. Moments ago, this ship received word of a Cylon attack against our homeworlds is under way. We do not know the size or the disposition or the strength of the enemy forces, but all indications point to a massive assault against Colonial defenses. Admiral Nagala has taken personal command of the Fleet aboard the battlestar Atlantia following the complete destruction of Picon Fleet Headquarters in the first wave of the attacks. How, why doesn't really matter now. What does matter is that as of this moment, we are at war."
--Commander William Adama (Miniseries)
Captain Lee Adama : Sir, "Apollo" is just my call sign. My name is Lee Adama.
President Laura Roslin : I know who you are, but "Captain Apollo" has a nice ring to it, don't you think?
Will make contact this freq every twelve hours. Prepare sitrep for command authority.Have hope.
We're coming for you.Message from Admiral Adama to the New Caprica Resistance.
Number Six: Your escape is a temporary one at best. We will find you.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Yeah, you can try. It's a big universe.
Number Six: You haven't addressed the real problem, of course.
Baltar: Yes, yes. There may be Cylon agents living among us, waiting to strike at any moment.
Number Six: Some may not even know they're Cylons at all. They could be sleeper agents programmed to perfectly impersonate human beings until activation.
Baltar: If there are Cylons aboard this ship, we'll find them.
Number Six: We? You're not on their side, Gaius.
Baltar: I am not on anybody's side.
"You know, sometimes I think that you've got ice water in those veins. And other times, I think you're just a naive 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 godsdamn 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. So, take your piety, and your moralizing, and your high-minded principles, and stick 'em somewhere safe until you're off the rock and sitting in your nice, cushy chair on Colonial One again. I've got a war to fight."
--Saul Tigh to Laura Roslin about the suicide bombings on New Caprica (Precipice)
Helo: I'm not going to let you kill her. She's carrying my child.
Starbuck: My Gods, men are so painfully stupid sometimes! How do you know that?
--Kara Thrace and Karl Agathon after Starbuck shoots at Caprica Valerii (Scattered)
"Let's go toaster shopping."
--Captain Lee Adama (Valley of Darkness)
Captain Lee Adama: I'm not suggesting that. I'm just saying we can't leave them behind. They should jump with us.
Lt. Felix Gaeta: I don't know how we're going to manage that...
Lee: We could pick a jump spot far enough outside the combat zone for—
Col. Saul Tigh: What the hell's "outside the combat zone" at this point?
Commander William Adama: (Notices Billy "flirting" with Dualla) They better start having babies.
Tigh (after a beat): Is that an order?
Adama: It may be before too long.
"No pain, no gain. No cliche left unturned as, as Kara Thrace returns to the world of the walking. Can she do it or will she fall on her ass?"
--Captain Lee Adama (Six Degrees of Separation)
"I need you to know something. I'm Sharon, but I'm a different Sharon. I know who I am. I don't have hidden protocols or programs lying in wait to be activated. I make my own choices. I make my own decisions. And I need you to know this is my choice."
--The Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii (Home, Part II)
"Well, Mr. Zarek, it would seem the enemy of my enemy is my friend."
--Laura Roslin (Resistance)
"There are 12 Cylon models."
--A note found by Commander William Adama in his own quarters (Miniseries)
Admiral William Adama: I'll see you at the rendezvous point.
Commander Lee Adama: Eighteen hours. Try not to be late.
William Adama: I'm getting old; I'm a little slow, but I'll be there.
Lee Adama: Gods, I wish I could talk you out of this...
William Adama: You can't. You tried.
Lee Adama: You know, Dad, um...
William Adama: Don't. Don't make me cry on my own hangar deck.
"She was more than that to us. She was more than that to me. She was a vital, living person… aboard my ship for almost two years. She couldn’t have been just a machine. Could you love a machine?"
--Commander William Adama (The Farm)
Kara Thrace: Congratulations...Really, congratulations.
(Holds out hand her for Lee Adama to shake)
Kara Thrace: You deserve it.
Lee Adama: I know why I was mad at you Kara.
Kara Thrace: A simple thank you would of been sufficient.
The Cylons were created by Man.
They were created to make life easier on the Twelve Colonies.
And then the day came when the Cylons decided to kill their masters.
After a long and bloody struggle, an armistice was declared.
The Cylons left for another world to call their own.
A remote space station was built where Cylon and Human could meet and maintain diplomatic relations.
Every year, the Colonials send an officer.
The Cylons send no one.
No one has seen or heard from the Cylons in over forty years.
--Opening to the Miniseries
"Gotta lighten up a bit. It's only the end of the world."
--Samuel Anders to Kara Thrace (The Farm)
"And unto the leader they gave a vision of serpents numbering two and ten, as a sign of things to come."
--The Book of Pythia (The Hand of God)
Gina: Suicide is a sin. But I need to die!
Gaius Baltar: What you need is justice. I know a place where you can stay, where you can be safe, where I can look after you.
Gina: Why—Why would you do that?
Baltar: Because I love you.
Lee Adama: C'mon Starbuck, you can do it.
(Kara Thrace gets out of bed, using it as a support.)
Adama (mockingly): Ah, that smarts. (walks over to Kara on crutches) That smarts. But I. Don't. Care.
Kara Thrace: You don't care?
Adama: I don't care. Because your pain is my entertainment. (hands crutches over to Thrace) Your Crutches of Death, sir. Use them wisely.
Thrace: Shut up.
"God didn't create the Cylons. Man did."
--Commander William Adama to Leoben Conoy (Miniseries)
November
Baltar: Oh, God.
Cavil:: She'll be back...
Cavil: ... but if he pulls that trigger now, you won't.
Commander William Adama: Is this (baby) the shape of things to come?
Dr. Gaius Baltar: That's my understanding.
Adama: Only one thing for it then. (He drowns the baby)