General Grey Mr President we got an AWAC off the coast eta to target 4 minutes.
7th most-quoted character in Independence Day (1996): in 8 of its 115 quotes
A line from General GreyGet on the wire and inform the squadron around the world. Tell them how to bring those sons of bitches down!
More lines from General Grey
4 quotes General Grey General Grey Mr President your primary target has shifted course and I think our Secrets out! they are heading straight for us!
General Grey Your out of time! You got to disable it now!
General Grey Your out of time! GET YOUR ASS OUT OF THERE! Get as far away as you can.
Scenes with General Grey
3 scenes
[David, Connie, Grey, and Nimzicki are all taking at once, after David objects to them using nuclear weapons]
Shut up! Captain, get him out of here!
Hey, don't tell him to shut up! You'd all be dead now if it wasn't for my David! None of you did anything to prevent this!
General Grey There was nothing we could do! We were totally unprepared for this.
Oh don't give me "unprepared"! It was, what? In the nineteen- what, fifties. Whatever You had that spaceship.
Dad.
Yeah, that thing you found in New Mexico. Where was that?
Dad, not the spaceship.
Roswell. Roswell, New Mexico. No, you had the spaceship and you had the bodies. They were locked up in a, in a bunker. Where was that?
Sir…I don't know.
David? Area 51, right? Area 51! You knew then! And you did nothing!
President Whitmore
Sir, regardless of what you may have read in the tabloids, there has 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.
What, which part?
General Grey Is that glass bulletproof?
Major Mitchell No, sir. [Shoots glass]
[having arrived at Area 51 with his alien and a fleet of refugees, Steven talks to General Grey]
Sir, I'm really anxious to get back to El Toro.
General Grey [calmly]
Hasn't anyone told you? El Toro has been completely destroyed.
