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Dr. Strangelove Quotes

Dr. Strangelove is a television program that appeared on TV in 1970 . Dr. Strangelove completed its run in 1970.

It features Stanley Kubrick as producer, Laurie Johnson in charge of musical score, and Gilbert Taylor as head of cinematography.

Dr. Strangelove is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of Dr. Strangelove is 94 minutes long. Dr. Strangelove is distributed by Columbia Pictures.

The cast includes: George C. Scott as General "Buck" Turgidson, Keenan Wynn as Colonel "Bat" Guano, Peter Bull as Ambassador de Sadesky, Sterling Hayden as General Jack D. Ripper, Slim Pickens as Major T. J. "King" Kong, and James Earl Jones as Lieutenant Lothar Zogg.

Dr. Strangelove Quotes

Peter Bull as Ambassador de Sadesky

  • (President Merkin Muffley) "But this is absolute madness, Ambassador. Why should you build such a thing?"
  • (Peter Bull) "There were those of us who fought against it, but in the end we could not keep up with the expense involved in the arms race, the space race, and the peace race. At the same time our people grumbled for more nylons and washing machines. Our doomsday scheme cost us just a small fraction of what we had been spending on defense in a single year. The deciding factor was when we learned that your country was working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a doomsday gap."
  • (President Merkin Muffley) "This is preposterous. I've never approved of anything like that."
  • (Peter Bull) "Our source was the New York Times."
  • (President Merkin Muffley) "I'm afraid I don't understand something, Alexi. Is your premier threatening to explode this if our planes succeed in carrying out their attack?"
  • (Peter Bull) "No, sir. It is not a thing a sane man would do. The doomsday machine is designed to to trigger itself automatically."
  • (President Merkin Muffley) "But surely you can disarm it somehow."
  • (Peter Bull) "No. It is designed to explode if any attempt is ever made to untrigger it."
  • (President Merkin Muffley) "Automatically?"
  • (George C. Scott) "It's an obvious Commie trick, Mr. President. We are wasting valuable time. Look at the big board, they're getting ready to clobber us."
  • (Dr. Strangelove) "Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you keep it a secret. Why didn't you tell the world, EH?"
  • (Peter Bull) "It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. As you know, the Premier loves surprises."

George C. Scott as General "Buck" Turgidson

  • (George C. Scott) "If the pilot's good, see, I mean if he's reeeally sharp, he can barrel that baby in so low -- oh you oughta see it sometime. It's a sight. A big plane like a '52 -- varrrooom. Its jet exhaust -- frying chickens in the barnyard."
  • (George C. Scott) "Mr. President, if I may speak freely, the Russkie talks big, but frankly, we think he's short of know how. I mean, you just can't expect a bunch of ignorant peons to understand a machine like some of our boys. And that's not meant as an insult, Mr. Ambassador, I mean, you take your average Russkie, we all know how much guts he's got. Hell, lookit all them Nazis killed off and they still wouldn't quit."
  • (George C. Scott) "When the Russians see that on their radar, they are going to go absolutely APE ."
  • (President Merkin Muffley) "I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler."
  • (George C. Scott) "Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American People than with your image in the history books."
  • (George C. Scott) "Mr. President, about, uh, 35 minutes ago, General Jack Ripper, the commanding general of, uh, Burpelson Air Force Base, issued an order to the 34 B-52's of his Wing, which were airborne at the time as part of a special exercise we were holding called Operation Drop-Kick. Now, it appears that the order called for the planes to, uh, attack their targets inside Russia. The, uh, planes are fully armed with nuclear weapons with an average load of, um, 40 megatons each. Now, the central display of Russia will indicate the position of the planes. The triangles are their primary targets; the squares are their secondary targets. The aircraft will begin penetrating Russian radar cover within, uh, 25 minutes."
  • (President Merkin Muffley) "General Turgidson, I find this very difficult to understand. I was under the impression that I was the only one in authority to order the use of nuclear weapons."
  • (George C. Scott) "That's right, sir, you are the only person authorized to do so. And although I, uh, hate to judge before all the facts are in, it's beginning to look like, uh, General Ripper exceeded his authority."
  • (George C. Scott) "Is that the Russian ambassador you're talking about?"
  • (President Merkin Muffley) "Yes it is, General."
  • (George C. Scott) "A-A-Am I to understand the Russian ambassador is to be admitted entrance to th-the War Room?"
  • (President Merkin Muffley) "That is correct, he is here on my orders."
  • (George C. Scott) "I -- I don't know exactly how to put this, sir, but are you aware of what a serious breach of security that would be? I mean, he'll see everything, he'll -- he'll see the Big Board."
  • (George C. Scott) "Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines."
  • (George C. Scott) "Hello --"
  • (George C. Scott) "I told you never to call me here, don't you know where I am? -- Well look, baby, I c-, I can't talk to you now -- my president needs me --. Of course Bucky'd rather be there with you --. Of course it isn't only physical --. I deeply respect you as a human being -- Some day I'm gonna make you Mrs Buck Turgidson --. Oh, listen uh, you go back to sleep hon, and Bucky'll be back there just as soon as he can -- All right -- listen, sug, don't forget to say your prayers."
  • (George C. Scott) "Hmm -- Strangelove? What kind of a name is that? That ain't no Kraut name is it, Stainesey?"
  • (Mr. Staines) "He changed it when he became a citizen. Used to be Merkwürdigliebe."
  • (George C. Scott) "Well, a Kraut by any other name, uh Stainesey?"
  • (Miss Scott) "It's 3 o'clock in the morning."
  • (George C. Scott) "Weh-heh-heh-ll, the Air Force never sleeps."
  • (Miss Scott) "Buck, honey, I'm not sleepy either --"
  • (George C. Scott) "I know how it is, baby. Tell you what you do: you just start your countdown, and old Bucky'll be back here before you can say "Blast off.""
  • (President Merkin Muffley) "And why haven't you radioed the planes countermanding the go-code?"
  • (George C. Scott) "Well, I'm afraid we're unable to communicate with any of the aircraft."
  • (President Merkin Muffley) "Why?"
  • (George C. Scott) "As you may recall, sir, one of the provisions of Plan 'R' provides that once the go-code is received, the normal SSB Radios in the aircraft are switched into a special coded device which I believe is designated as CRM-114. Now, in order to prevent the enemy from issuing fake or confusing orders, CRM-114 is designed not to receive at all; unless the message is preceded by the correct three-letter recall code group prefix."
  • (President Merkin Muffley) "Then do you mean to tell me, General Turgidson, that you will be unable to recall the aircraft?"
  • (George C. Scott) "That's about the size of it. However, we are plowing through every possible three-letter combination of the code. But since there are 17,000 permutations -- it's going to take us about two-and-a-half days to transmit them all."
  • (President Merkin Muffley) "How soon did you say our planes will be entering Russian radar cover?"
  • (George C. Scott) "About 18 minutes from now, sir."
  • (George C. Scott) "General Ripper called Strategic Air Command headquarters shortly after he issued the go code. I have a portion of the transcript of that conversation if you'd like me to to read it."
  • (President Merkin Muffley) "Read it."
  • (George C. Scott) "Ahem -- The Duty Officer asked General Ripper to confirm the fact that he had issued the go code, and he said, uh, "Yes gentlemen, they are on their way in, and no one can bring them back. For the sake of our country, and our way of life, I suggest you get the rest of SAC in after them. Otherwise, we will be totally destroyed by Red retaliation. Uh, my boys will give you the best kind of start, 1400 megatons worth, and you sure as hell won't stop them now, uhuh. Uh, so let's get going, there's no other choice. God willing, we will prevail, in peace and freedom from fear, and in true health, through the purity and essence of our natural -- fluids. God bless you all" and he hung up."
  • (George C. Scott) "Uh, we're, still trying to figure out the meaning of that last phrase, sir."
  • (President Merkin Muffley) "There's nothing to figure out, General Turgidson. This man is obviously a psychotic."
  • (George C. Scott) "We-he-ell, uh, I'd like to hold off judgement on a thing like that, sir, until all the facts are in."
  • (President Merkin Muffley) "General Turgidson. When you instituted the human reliability tests, you assured me there was no possibility of such a thing ever occurring."
  • (George C. Scott) "Well, I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir."
  • (George C. Scott) "Mr. President, we are rapidly approaching a moment of truth both for ourselves as human beings and for the life of our nation. Now, truth is not always a pleasant thing. But it is necessary now to make a choice, to choose between two admittedly regrettable, but nevertheless distinguishable, postwar environments: one where you got twenty million people killed, and the other where you got a hundred and fifty million people killed."
  • (President Merkin Muffley) "You're talking about mass murder, General, not war."
  • (George C. Scott) "Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks."

Keenan Wynn as Colonel "Bat" Guano

  • (Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake) "Colonel. Colonel, I must know what you think has been going on here."
  • (Keenan Wynn) "You wanna know what I think?"
  • (Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake) "Yes."
  • (Keenan Wynn) "I think you're some kind of deviated prevert. I think General Ripper found out about your preversion, and that you were organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts. Now MOVE."
  • (Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake) "Just one second, operator."
  • (Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake) "They won't accept the call. Have you got 55 cents?"
  • (Keenan Wynn) "What, you don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do you?"

Sterling Hayden as General Jack D. Ripper

  • (Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake) "Erm, what about the planes, sir? Surely we must issue the recall code immediately."
  • (Sterling Hayden) "Group Captain, the planes are not gonna be recalled. My attack orders have been issued, and the orders stand."
  • (Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake) "Well, if you'll excuse me saying so, sir, that would be, to my way of thinking, rather -- well, rather an odd way of looking at it. You see, if a Russian attack was in progress, we would certainly not be hearing civilian broadcast."
  • (Sterling Hayden) "Are you certain of that, Mandrake?"
  • (Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake) "Oh, I'm absolutely positive about it."
  • (Sterling Hayden) "And what if it is true?"
  • (Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake) "Well, I'm afraid I'm still not with you, sir, because, I mean, if a Russian attack was not in progress, then your use of Plan R; in fact, your order to the entire Wing -- Oh. I would say, sir, that there were something dreadfully wrong somewhere."
  • (Sterling Hayden) "Now why don't you just take it easy, Group Captain, and please make me a drink of grain alcohol and rainwater, and help yourself to whatever you'd like."
  • (Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake) "General Ripper, Sir, as an officer in Her Majesty's Air Force, it is my clear duty, under the present circumstances, to issue the recall code, upon my own authority, and bring back the Wing. If you'll excuse me, sir."
  • (Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake) "I'm afraid, sir, I must ask you for the key, and the recall code. Have you got them handy, sir?"
  • (Sterling Hayden) "The base is being put on Condition Red. I want this flashed to all sections immediately."
  • (Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake) "Condition Red, sir, yes, jolly good idea. That keeps the men on their toes."
  • (Sterling Hayden) "Group Captain, I'm afraid this is not an exercise."
  • (Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake) "Not an exercise, sir?"
  • (Sterling Hayden) "I shouldn't tell you this, Mandrake, but you're a good officer and you've a right to know. It looks like we're in a shooting war."
  • (Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake) "Oh, hell. Are the Russians involved, sir?"
  • (Sterling Hayden) "Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk -- ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream."
  • (Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake) "Lord, Jack."
  • (Sterling Hayden) "You know when fluoridation first began?"
  • (Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake) "I -- no, no. I don't, Jack."
  • (Sterling Hayden) "Nineteen hundred and forty-six. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works."
  • (Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake) "Uh, Jack, Jack, listen -- tell me, tell me, Jack. When did you first -- become -- well, develop this theory?"
  • (Sterling Hayden) "Well, I, uh -- I -- I -- first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love."
  • (Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake) "Hmm."
  • (Sterling Hayden) "Yes, a uh, a profound sense of fatigue -- a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I -- I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence."
  • (Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake) "Hmm."
  • (Sterling Hayden) "I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women uh -- women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh -- I do not avoid women, Mandrake."
  • (Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake) "No."
  • (Sterling Hayden) "But I -- I do deny them my essence."
  • (Sterling Hayden) "Were you ever a prisoner of war?"
  • (Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake) "Well -- yes I was, matter of fact, Jack. I was."
  • (Sterling Hayden) "Did they torture you?"
  • (Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake) "Uh, yes they did. I was tortured by the Japanese. Jack, if you must know; not a pretty story."
  • (Sterling Hayden) "Well, what happened?"
  • (Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake) "Oh, well, I don't know, Jack, difficult to think of under these conditions; but, well -- what happened was they got me on the old Rangoon-Ichinawa railway. I was laying train lines for the bloody Japanese puff-puff's."
  • (Sterling Hayden) "No, I mean when they tortured you. Did you talk?"
  • (Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake) "Ah, oh, no -- well, I don't think they wanted me to talk really. I don't think they wanted me to say anything. It was just their way of having a bit of fun, the swines. Strange thing is they make such bloody good cameras."

James Earl Jones as Lieutenant Lothar Zogg

  • (James Earl Jones) "Hey, where'd Major Kong go?"

Slim Pickens as Major T. J. "King" Kong

  • (Slim Pickens) "Well, boys, I reckon this is it; nuclear combat toe to toe with the Roosskies. Now look, boys, I ain't much of a hand at makin' speeches, but I got a pretty fair idea that something doggone important is goin' on back there. And I got a fair idea the kinda personal emotions that some of you fellas may be thinkin'. Heck, I reckon you wouldn't even be human bein's if you didn't have some pretty strong personal feelin's about nuclear combat. I want you to remember one thing, the folks back home is a-countin' on you and by golly, we ain't about to let 'em down. I tell you something else, if this thing turns out to be half as important as I figure it just might be, I'd say that you're all in line for some important promotions and personal citations when this thing's over with. That goes for ever' last one of you regardless of your race, color or your creed. Now let's get this thing on the hump; we got some flyin' to do."
  • (Slim Pickens) "Well, shoot. We ain't come this far just to dump this thing in the drink. What's the nearest target opportunity?"
  • (Slim Pickens) "Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff."
  • (Slim Pickens) "Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones. You sure you got today's codes?"
  • (Slim Pickens) "Goldie, how many times have I told you guys that I don't want no horsing around on the airplane?"
  • (Slim Pickens) "All set. Check bomb door circuits one through four."
  • (James Earl Jones) "Uh -- bomb door circuits negative function. The lights are all red."
  • (Slim Pickens) "Switch into backup circuits."
  • (James Earl Jones) "Backup circuits are switched on. Still negative function."
  • (Slim Pickens) "Engage emergency power."
  • (James Earl Jones) "Emergency power is on. Still negative, sir."
  • (Slim Pickens) "Operate manual override."
  • (James Earl Jones) "Roger."
  • (James Earl Jones) "Manuel override negative function. I think the cable link to the override must be sheared away."
  • (Slim Pickens) "Fire the explosive bolts."
  • (James Earl Jones) "Roger --"
  • (James Earl Jones) "Negative, sir. The operating circuits are dead, sir."

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