1- “Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy… the fear to attack!” -Dr. Strangelove , ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
2- “Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday machine is lost if you keep it a secret! Why didn’t you tell the world?”-Dr. Strangelove , ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
3- “It would not be difficult, Mein Führer.”-Dr. Strangelove , ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
4- “Sir! I have a plan! [standing up from his wheelchair] Mein Führer! I can walk!”-Dr. Strangelove , ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
5- “Well, boys, this is it. Nuclearcombat, toe to toe with the Rooskies.” – Maj. ‘King’ Kong , ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
6- “Goldie, how many times have I told you guys that I don’t want no horsing around on the airplane?” – Maj. ‘King’ Kong , ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
7- “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.” – Maj. ‘King’ Kong , ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
8- “I want you to remember one thing, the folks back home is a countin’ on ya, and by golly we ain’t about to let ’em down. Tell you somethin’ else. If this thing turns out to be half as important is 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 every last one of you, regardless of your race, color, or your creed. Now, let’s get this thing on the hump. We got some flying to do.” – Maj. ‘King’ Kong , ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
9- “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.” – Maj. ‘King’ Kong , ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
10- “Well boys, we’ve got three engines out, we’ve got more holes in us than a horse trader’s mule, the radio’s gone and we’re leaking fuel and if we was flying any lower, why we’d need sleigh bells on this thing… But we’ve got one thing on those Ruskies… At this height, why they might harpoon us, but they dang sure ain’t gonna spot us on no radar screen!” – Maj. ‘King’ Kong , ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
11- “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.” – Maj. ‘King’ Kong , ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
12- “Stay on the bomb run, boys! I’m gonna get them doors open if it harelips ever’body on Bear Creek!” – Maj. ‘King’ Kong , ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
13- “I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.” – Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper , ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
14- “Your Commie has no regard for human life. Not even his own.” – Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper , ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
15- “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.” – Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper , ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
16- “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.” – Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper , ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
17- “You’re talking about mass murder, general, not war! – President Merkin Muffley, ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
18-“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!”- President Merkin Muffley, ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
19- “[the President calls the Soviet Premier] Hello?… Uh… Hello D- uh hello Dmitri? Listen uh uh I can’t hear too well. Do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little? … Oh-ho, that’s much better… yeah… huh… yes… Fine, I can hear you now, Dmitri… Clear and plain and coming through fine… I’m coming through fine, too, eh?… Good, then… well, then, as you say, we’re both coming through fine… Good… Well, it’s good that you’re fine and… and I’m fine… I agree with you, it’s great to be fine… a-ha-ha-ha-ha… Now then, Dmitri, you know how we’ve always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb… The bomb, Dmitri… The hydrogen bomb!… Well now, what happened is… ahm… one of our base commanders, he had a sort of… well, he went a little funny in the head… you know… just a little… funny. And, ah… he went and did a silly thing… Well, I’ll tell you what he did. He ordered his planes… to attack your country… Ah… Well, let me finish, Dmitri… Let me finish, Dmitri… Well listen, how do you think I feel about it?… Can you imagine how I feel about it, Dmitri?… Why do you think I’m calling you? Just to say hello?… Of course I like to speak to you!… Of course I like to say hello!… Not now, but anytime, Dmitri. I’m just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened… It’s a friendly call. Of course it’s a friendly call… Listen, if it wasn’t friendly… you probably wouldn’t have even got it… They will not reach their targets for at least another hour… I am… I am positive, Dmitri… Listen, I’ve been all over this with your ambassador. It is not a trick… Well, I’ll tell you. We’d like to give your air staff a complete run-down on the targets, the flight plans, and the defensive systems of the planes… Yes! I mean i-i-i-if we’re unable to recall the planes, then… I’d say that, ah… well, ah… we’re just gonna have to help you destroy them, Dmitri… I know they’re our boys… All right, well listen now. Who should we call?… Who should we call, Dmitri? The… wha-whe, the People… you, sorry, you faded away there… The People’s Central Air Defense Headquarters… Where is that, Dmitri?… In Omsk… Right… Yes… Oh, you’ll call them first, will you?… Uh-huh… Listen, do you happen to have the phone number on you, Dmitri?… Whe-ah, what? I see, just ask for Omsk information… Ah-ah-eh-uhm-hm… I’m sorry, too, Dmitri… I’m very sorry… All right, you’re sorrier than I am, but I am as sorry as well… I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri! Don’t say that you’re more sorry than I am, because I’m capable of being just as sorry as you are… So we’re both sorry, all right?… All right.”- President Merkin Muffley, ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
20-” If the pilot’s good, I mean if he’s reeeally sharp, he can barrel that thing in so low, oh it’s a sight to see. You wouldn’t expect it with a big ol’ plane like a ’52, but varrrooom! The jet exhaust… frying chickens in the barnyard!” – Gen. ‘Buck’ Turgidson, ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
21- “Mister President, we must not allow a mine shaft gap!” – Gen. ‘Buck’ Turgidson, ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
22- “Well, I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.”- Gen. ‘Buck’ Turgidson, ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
23- “You just start your countdown, and old Bucky’ll be back here before you can say… Blast Off!”- Gen. ‘Buck’ Turgidson, ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
24- “Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines.”- Gen. ‘Buck’ Turgidson, ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
25- “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.”- Gen. ‘Buck’ Turgidson, ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
26- “What, you don’t think I’d go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do you?” -Col. ‘Bat’ Guano, ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
27- “- Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper: 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.
– Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper: But I… I do deny them my essence.”‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
28- “- Col. ‘Bat’ Guano: You wanna know what I think?
– Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Yes!
– Col. ‘Bat’ Guano: I think you’re some kind of deviated pervert. I think General Ripper found out about your perversion, and that you were organizing some kind of mutiny of perverts. Now move!”‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
29- “- Gen. ‘Buck’ Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn’t that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
– Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious… service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
– Russian Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.”‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
30- “- Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Colonel… that Coca-Cola machine. I want you to shoot the lock off it. There may be some change in there.
– Col. ‘Bat’ Guano: That’s private property.
– Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Colonel! Can you possibly imagine what is going to happen to you, your frame, outlook, way of life, and everything, when they learn that you have obstructed a telephone call to the President of the United States? Can you imagine? Shoot it off! Shoot! With a gun! That’s what the bullets are for, you twit!
– Col. ‘Bat’ Guano: Okay. I’m gonna get your money for ya. But if you don’t get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what’s gonna happen to you?
– Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: What?
– Col. ‘Bat’ Guano: You’re gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.”‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’.
