Battleship (2012)

Peter MacNicol: Secretary of Defense

Quotes 

• Secretary of Defense : [from the Pentagon]  Just scramble the jets, Admiral! We need to get in there-!

  Admiral Shane : I'm far more aware than you of the need to get inside! But wasting lives will not help! You want me to send up another plane? I'll do it the second you get up here and put your ass in the co-pilot's seat, *sir*!

  [slams phone down] 

• Dr. Nogrady : It is the strong opinion of the Chinese that what crashed over Hong Kong was some kind of... communications ship.

  Secretary of Defense : You're saying that a "flying telephone" cratered and took out 20,000 people?

  Dr. Nogrady : What I'm saying is that our visitors seems extraordinarily concerned about establishing a line of communication back home.

  Air Force Chief of Staff : If they lost their communications ship, how could they do that?

  Dr. Nogrady : The same way we did. Our facility in Hawaii has the ability to transmit a signal to deep space via the Landsat-7 satellite. We believe it's for that asset that they've domed the islands. We're looking at an extinction-level event.