Albert Nimzicki quotes from Independence Day (1996)

Albert Nimzicki

Two words, Mr. President: "Plausible deniability".

Albert Nimzicki

Oh, yeah! It's a hit!

Albert Nimzicki

Shut up! Captain, get him out of here!

Julius Levinson

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.

Julius Levinson

Oh don't give me "unprepared"! It was, what? In the nineteen- what, fifties. Whatever You had that spaceship.

David Levinson

Dad.

Julius Levinson

Yeah, that thing you found in New Mexico. Where was that?

David Levinson

Dad, not the spaceship.

Julius Levinson

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.

Julius Levinson

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.

Albert Nimzicki

Uh…excuse me, Mr. President. That's not entirely accurate.

David Levinson

What, which part?

Albert Nimzicki

I understand you are upset over the death of your wife, but that's no excuse for making another fatal mistake.

President Whitmore

No, the only mistake I ever made to appoint a sniveling little weasel like you as Secretary of Defense!

Albert Nimzicki

I don't think you understand-

President Whitmore

HOWEVER, that is one mistake, I am thankful to say, that I don't have to live with.

Albert Nimzicki

Mr. President-

President Whitmore

Mr. Nimzicki… you're fired.

Albert Nimzicki

He can't do that.

Well, he just, um, did.

Albert Nimzicki

I'm not Jewish.

Julius Levinson

Nobody's perfect.