Independence Day

Earth. Take a good look. It could be your last.

"Everyone's trying to get out of Washington, and we're the only schmucks trying to get in."

    --  Lulius Levinson
 

"I picked a helluva day to quit drinkin'."

    --  Russel Casse
 

"In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. "Mankind." That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom... Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight!" We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!"

    --  President Whitmore
 

"Sir, regardless of what you may have read in the tabloids, there have never been any spacecraft recovered by our government. Take my word for it, there's no Area 51. There's no recovered spaceship."
"Uh... Excuse me, Mr. President? That's not entirely accurate."

    --  President Whitmore and Albert Nimzicki
 

"You didn't think they actually spent ten thousand dollars for a hammer and thirty thousand for a toilet seat, did you?"

    --  Julius Levinson
 

"I ain't heard no fat lady!"
"Forget the fat lady. You're Obsessed with fat lady. Just get us out of here!"

    --  Captain Steven Hiller and David Levinson