Secretary of Defense John Keller I want our President in that bunker. And I don't want to discuss a damn thing other till that becomes reality. That's our first priority; That's our only priority right now.
Played by Jon Voight 
Transformers (2007) · 197 quotes
Transformers (2007) · 197 quotes
5th most-quoted character in Transformers (2007): in 15 of its 197 quotes
Most scenes with: Agent Simmons (4), Tech Sgt. Epps (3), Capt. William Lennox (2)
Gentlemen, the President has ordered Sector Seven be terminated, and the remains of the dead aliens disposed of. The Laurentian Abyss is seven miles below sea level, deepest place on our planet. The massive depth and pressure there, coupled with subfreezing temperatures, would crush and entomb them... leaving no evidence.
More lines from Secretary of Defense John Keller
9 quotes Secretary of Defense John Keller Secretary of Defense John Keller Bring them home. You get those men stateside right now, I want them debriefed in 10 hours.
Secretary of Defense John Keller We're facing war against a technological civilization far superior to our own. Our enemy can take any shape. They could be anywhere!
Secretary of Defense John Keller We're on a hair-trigger, people. The President has dispatched battle groups in the Arabian Gulf and Yellow Sea. This is as real as it's ever gonna get. I'm gonna leave that to your officer-in-charge. You'll break up into teams, and you'll start your work. Good luck... to us all.
Secretary of Defense John Keller Are we talking about... an invasion?
Secretary of Defense John Keller [Upon seeing the frozen body of Megatron]
Dear God... what is this?
Secretary of Defense John Keller [to Maggie]
Now, if you could find proof to back up your theory, I'm gonna be happy to listen. But if you don't get a handle on that brain-mouth thing, you're gonna be off the team. You understand?
Secretary of Defense John Keller [to Sector 7 agents]
Gentlemen, they know the Cube is here.
Secretary of Defense John Keller [about Lennox]
Simmons, I'd do as he says. Losing's really not an option for these guys.
Scenes with Secretary of Defense John Keller
5 scenes John Keller You're coming with me. You're going to be my advisor.
Me too?
John Keller Who's this?
He's... my advisor.
John Keller He comes too.
All right, you've all had direct contact with the NBEs...
Non-Biological Extraterrestrials. Try to keep up with the acronyms.
Tom Banachek
What you're about to see is totally classified... [Megatron is revealed]
John Keller [awestruck]
Dear God, what is that?
Tom Banachek
We think that when he made his approach over the North Pole, our gravitational field screwed up his telemetry and crashed into the ice, probably a few thousand years age. We shipped him here to this facility in 1934.
We call him NBE-1.
I don't mean to correct you on all that you think you know, but that's Megatron. He's the leader of the Decepticons.
Tom Banachek
He's been in cryo-stasis since 1935. Your great-great-grandfather made one of the greatest discoveries in the history of mankind.
Fact is, you're looking at the source of the modern age. The microchip, lasers, cars, space flight: all reverse-engineered by studying him. [sneers at Sam] NBE-1, that's what we call it!
John Keller And you didn't think the United States Military might need to know that you're keeping a hostile alien robot frozen in the basement?
Until these events, we had no credible threats to national security.
John Keller Well, you got one now!
[Epps and Glen stare at the gashes in the Allspark chamber]
Whoa. Has Freddy Krueger been in here?
Naw, man! Freddy Krueger's got four blades, that's only three! That's Wolverine! [growls and laughs] Right, that's Wolverine? [Epps looks very unimpressed]
That's very funny. [Glenn falls slient, offended] Does anyone have any mechanical devices? BlackBerry, key alarm, cell phone?
I got a phone. [hands it to Simmons]
Nokias are real nasty. You gotta respect the Japanese; they know the way of the Samurai.
Nokia's from Finland.
John Keller Yes, but he's, uh... [quietly] you know, strange. He's a little strange.
[Simmons flips a switch, shooting electricity into the box; the cellphone transforms into a well-armed miniature robot that starts shooting at the box with a gatling gun]
We're able to harness the Cube's radiation and funnel it into that box. Mean little sucker, huh?
That thing is freaky!
Kinda like the itty-bitty Energizer Bunny from Hell, huh?!
[Sector 7 agents and the special forces are in a Mexican standoff after Sam demands the return of Bumblebee]
There's an alien war going on, and you wanna start shooting?!
We didn't ask to be here.
I'm ordering you under S7 executive jurisdiction!
S7 don't exist!
Yeah, and we don't take orders from people who don't exist!
I'm gonna count to five.
I'm gonna count to three. [grabs Simmons by the collar and shoves the muzzle of his pistol into the Sector 7 agent's chest]
John Keller SIMMONS!
Yeah?
John Keller I'd do as he says. Losing's really not an option for these guys.
[to Lennox]
Okay, okay. You want to lay the fate of the world on the kid's Camaro? That's cool.
He's right. If we stay here, we're screwed with Megatron in the other hanger. Mission City is 22 miles away. We're going to sneak that Cube out of here and hide it somewhere in the city.
John Keller Good, right!
But we cannot make a stand without the Air Force.
John Keller This place must have some sort of radio link.
Yes!
John Keller Short wave, CB.
Right, yes!
[to Keller]
Sir, you're going to have to find some way to get word out of them. Let's move!
John Keller Will it work?
Anything's possible! Did you see that...?
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