David Levinson quotes from Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

It crashed into Van de Graaff crater. We are not picking up any signs of life.

US President Elizabeth Lanford

Let's hope to God we did the right thing.

David Levinson

Madam President, we need to send a team up to investigate the wreckage. We need to know who we just shot down.

There's no sign of life and the threat has been neutralized. [to Lanford] We can send a team up, but David needs to be in DC.

Levinson

No, oh. Can we not make this political. I need to get up there and get answers.

Lanford

David, you can lead a team up there, but after the celebration.

David Levinson

I've had years to get us ready. We never had a chance.

President Whitmore

We didn't last time, either. We always knew they were coming back. But look how far we've come. In the last 20 years, this planet has been unified in a way that's unprecedented in human history. That's sacred. That's worth fighting for. We convinced an entire generation that this is a battle we could win. And they believed us. We can't let them down. It wasn't luck last time. It was our resolve. We all have to fight till our last breath. And that is going to lead us to victory.

David Levinson

Why are you here?

When I intercepted their distress call, I knew they would come to exterminate you. I came to evacuate as many of you as possible. But you attacked me with the same weapons that they used on us.

Levinson

They attacked you?

Correct. [shows hologram of a Harvester ship and a planet] A harvester ship conquered our planet and extracted it's molten core. They used them to refuel their ships and grow their technology. They've done this to countless civilizations. We fought them for thousands of years. But they destroyed all of our ships. I, am the sole survivor.

Dr Brackish Okun

I am so sorry to hear that. Do you have a plan?

My system holds the key to superior technology. And there is a hidden planet where I teach refugees from other fallen worlds how to build weapons that will defeat them once and for all.

That's why they're afraid of you. You're the only ones who threaten their existence.

Correct. But now that I'm activated, the queen will detect my signature and hunt me down.

It's too late. She's already on her way.

Thomas Whitmore

Yeah. She's coming.

Levinson

And what would happen if, if we're able to kill her?

No one has ever killed a harvester queen.

Okun

That's encouraging.

But as a hive, her fighters will fall and her ship will leave your planet, recalled by other harvester queens. But it's too late now. You must terminate me or she will get the coordinates to the refugee planet. And that will be the end.