- President Sawyer: Martin, as the President of the United States, this comes with the full weight, power and authority of my office. Fuck you.
- Finnerty: There's a series of tunnels. JFK used them to sneak Marilyn Monroe in.
- Cale: I thought that was a myth.
- President Sawyer: It's true.
- Cale: Donnie's gonna be pissed.
- Stenz: Your little bitch says you're gonna put me in jail!
- [a few minutes later, Stenz has the upper hand]
- Stenz: I'm gonna *carve my name into your chest*!
- [a few minutes later, Cale has the upper hand]
- Cale: No jail for you, you little bitch!
- [Roars Stenz in the face like the Hulk]
- Stenz: NO... NO... NO
- [blows up Stenz with a belt of unpinned grenades]
- Donnie the Guide: [clubs terrorist to death with clock] Stop... hurting... my... White House! German mantle clock. Empire style.
- [throws clock away]
- Cale: I got three rounds. Tell me you got some weapons in the residence.
- President Sawyer: No, we usually have two agents right there with machine guns. We got some knives in the kitchen.
- Cale: What?
- President Sawyer: They're big knives.
- Cale: Great, then you can make me a sandwich.
- Agent Kellerman: [after seeing the president carrying a rocket launcher] This is something you don't see every day.
- Raphelson: You can't do this! I am still the President of the United States!
- President Sawyer: Then consider this a coup d'état!
- President Sawyer: [to Gen. Caufield] Get this trash off my lawn!
- Raphelson: [as he is being dragged off] You won't get away with this. I have friends, powerful friends!
- President Sawyer: And I'll make sure every single one of them joins you in prison!
- Raphelson: [rants] You son of a bitch! You're not FIT to hold this office! You sold out this country by making a deal with the goddamn Arabs!
- [Raphelson's treachery has been exposed]
- Cale: You are a goddamn traitor, sir.
- Raphelson: You dim little shit! I hired you out of pity and this is how you repay me? Now when the country finds out that your beloved President helped a maniac open the nuclear football, who do think they'll believe? Now you, you would be a *nobody* whereas *I* am the President of the United States.
- President Sawyer: Oh no, you're not!
- General Caulfield: That's classified.
- Raphelson: Well I hereby unclassify it, now do you care to share with the group?
- Raphelson: Carol, we have to end this. We have to. What if the next missile that he launches is aimed at Chicago or New York? We're talking about millions of lives.
- Finnerty: Your first act as president is going to be bombing the White House?
- Raphelson: Believe me. I know, I know. But our country is stronger than one house.
- General Caulfield: Stenz used to do black ops work for us off the books, but when the new Sawyer administration came in, the Secretary of Defense shut down the operation and disavowed all its assets. Stenz was captured and ended up spending several months in a Taliban-controlled prison.
- Finnerty: No wonder he's pissed.
- General Caulfield: Sir, I not sure using heavy artillery is a wise...
- President Sawyer: I DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK IS WISE... YOU GET THAT TANK... YOU PUT A HOLE IN THE GOD-DAMN FENCE RIGHT NOW
- Donnie the Guide: Now, not too many people realize this, but the White House is actually three buildings: there's the East Wing, where you guys came in, there's the West Wing, which houses the Oval and Executive Offices of the president, and we're about to enter the residence, which is the big, famous building in the middle that got blown up in "Independence Day".
- Midwestern Woman: What's in there?
- Donnie the Guide: Well, that's the president's home theater. Membership has its privileges.
- Walker: As, uh, many of you are well aware, this is my last week here, so I wanna make this clear to everybody: if there are any congratulatory cakes or any of that nonsense...
- [on cue, a cake is wheeled in, and the agents break out into "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow"]
- Walker: ...I will be compelled to use deadly force. I hate you. I hate you all.
- Cale: Do you know these men?
- President Sawyer: That old son of a bitch that just killed everybody, his name is Martin Walker. He's also the head of my Secret Service.
- Cale: Maybe you should have a conversation with him about how serious you take your protection detail.
- President Sawyer: I didn't pick him.
- Cale: Why is he doing this?
- President Sawyer: I think it has something to do with his son, Kevin.
- Cale: Why? What happened?
- President Sawyer: He was a Marine, and he got killed last year in this covert action that I ordered.
- Cale: Would he do all this for a personal vendetta? He said he wanted you alive.
- President Sawyer: There's gotta be a bigger play. We gotta get out of this elevator shaft. I'm, uh...
- Cale: Don't tell me you're claustrophobic.
- Donnie the Guide: Get out of here! There's an air strike coming! Come on!
- Melanie: What? My daughter Emily was in there. Emily Cale.
- Donnie the Guide: She's still in there.
- [she rushes past him]
- Donnie the Guide: Wait!
- Melanie: Emily!
- Donnie the Guide: What is with this family?
- President Sawyer: [flying over the Lincoln Memorial] Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. president who was in favor of women having the vote? As a matter of fact, he wrote a paper on suffrage while he was still in the Illinois legislature.
- Finnerty: Yes, I did know that, because you tell me every time we do this.
- Cale: I literally just walked in the door. What did I do?
- Melanie: You missed her talent show.
- Cale: No, I didn't miss it. That's, like, next Thursday.
- Melanie: No, it was last Thursday. It was on the school calendar.
- Cale: What did she do?
- Melanie: She was a flag twirler.
- Cale: That's a talent?
- Melanie: She practiced for, like, six weeks, John. She thought you were gonna be there.
- Cale: All right, it would've been really nice to just have a little bit of a reminder.
- Melanie: Come on, I'm not your secretary, John.
- Cale: I'm not asking you to be my secretary. Look, I'm just... I'm trying. I'm trying really hard to be in her life.
- Melanie: It's a little late for that, wouldn't you say?
- North Gate Guard: Good morning, sir.
- Cale: Good morning. How are you?
- North Gate Guard: Fine, thank you. Yourself?
- Cale: Good.
- North Gate Guard: Photo IDs, please. Thank you.
- Emily: [watching the guards give the car a once-over] What are you guys looking for?
- North Gate Guard: Explosives.
- Emily: [whispering to John] This is awesome.
- Finnerty: This job requires a university degree. You dropped out of GW after our first semester there. You don't finish things.
- Cale: Check the file, Carol. Two years in college night school. A certificate of graduation should be in there.
- Finnerty: Great. Yeah, John, you barely maintained a "C" average.
- Cale: Look, I'm sorry, I didn't have our little study sessions like we used to back in the day, did I?
- Finnerty: Uh, evaluations from your senior officers: "Sergeant Cale frequently does not complete his field reports on time."
- Cale: It has nothing to do with protecting someone.
- Finnerty: Fine. "Sergeant Cale demonstrates a lack of respect for authority". "Sergeant Cale has raw potential, but seems determined not to realize it."
- Cale: You can keep reading that. That is not me anymore. I've changed, and I'm not the kid you used to know in college, either. I've buttoned up every single thing that I have to to qualify for this job, and I have ten times more experience than any kid coming out of Ivy League schools, so...
- Finnerty: It's not just about experience. I would need to depend on you every day.
- Cale: What do you want me to do? I'll start at the... I'll start at the bottom. Just give me a chance.
- Walker: Good morning. Light day at the White House today. Eagle will remain on the eighteen acres. He has phone calls to the congressional leadership. First Lady is back tonight?
- Agent Hope: Empress is wheels down at 1845. Uh, they're supposed to have a private dinner at the residence, but you know how they are.
- Walker: So we should have an advance on Obelisk, Marcel's, the usual.
- Agent Todd: What if she wants sushi?
- Finnerty: [entering] No, no, she's off sushi. Remember she had that thing on the Japan trip?
- Walker: Carol, how are you still awake?
- Finnerty: Caffeine and patriotism, sir.
- Donnie the Guide: Oil painting by Tom Freeman to commemorate the burning of the White House by the British in 1814.
- Cale: Wait, the White House burned down?
- Donnie the Guide: Yeah, yeah, in the War of 1812. Practically had to be rebuilt from the ground up. When I look at this painting, I get very emotional.
- Emily: I think I need avail myself of one of the 35 bathrooms in here.
- Donnie the Guide: [amused laugh] There's a ladies' room downstairs.
- Cale: Where? I'll take her.
- Emily: I can go by myself, John. I'm not a child.
- Cale: Hey, just don't touch anything, or-or wander off or talk to anybody that you shouldn't be talking to.
- Emily: I make no promises.
- Cale: All right, look, we gotta get you to a phone. And you call SEAL Team Six, and they come in here and they'll shoot these assholes in the head.
- President Sawyer: We keep a scrambled satphone in the residence.
- Cale: Great. Where's that at?
- [Sawyer points to an elevator door just above their heads]
- Cale: Of course it is. You ever been rock climbing?
- President Sawyer: What, we climbing this?
- Cale: Unless you got a better idea, yeah.
- Vice President Hammond: [after hearing Walker's threat to kill Sawyer] Jesus. The head of his own detail.
- General Caulfield: At least we know how they got in so easily. The question is can we be sure he's the only Secret Service member who's been compromised?
- Finnerty: Oh, go to hell.
- Jenna: John, have you heard what's happening? It-it's so not a good time.
- Cale: Jenna, do not hang up on me. I'm with the president. We're in the White House.
- Jenna: That's not funny, John.
- Cale: No... does this sound like a joke to you? Yeah, he's...
- President Sawyer: [taking the phone] Jenna, this is James Sawyer. For the past ten minutes, I've been getting shot at with this young man, so if you could connect me to whatever command and control structure we still have left, I would really appreciate it.
- Jenna: Um...
- President Sawyer: And let 'em know...
- Jenna: Um... hold on.
- President Sawyer: That the president... hello? Th-thank you.
- Cale: She hung up?
- President Sawyer: She, uh, put me on hold when I was thanking her.
- Walker: A little birdie told me you're finally moving the money.
- Muriel Walker: Martin? I had to tell them about the tumor, Martin.
- Walker: That's all right.
- Muriel Walker: Please stop this. Please just come home.
- Walker: I have to do this, honey.
- Muriel Walker: No, you don't.
- Walker: They have to pay for what they did to Kevin. And when it's over, I promise... I promise you'll understand.
- Muriel Walker: You're doing this for Kevin?
- Walker: I swear to God.
- Muriel Walker: Then you do whatever it takes. You make them pay for what they did to our boy.
- Finnerty: What the hell are you doing?
- [picking up the receiver]
- Finnerty: Walker, you stop this, or I'm gonna make sure she spends the rest of her life in a federal prison.
- Walker: You have nineteen minutes.
- Cale: Okay, I'm gonna have to get that out.
- President Sawyer: When did you become a doctor all of a sudden?
- Cale: [handing over his flashlight] Hold that.
- President Sawyer: Look, just talk to me. Get my mind off it. Talk to me about your daughter.
- Cale: Emily? She's completely in love with you. She even tried to get me to vote for you.
- President Sawyer: You didn't vote for me?
- President Sawyer: Your daughter's smart. You should listen to her.
- Cale: She was, like, three when I enlisted. And to be honest with you, I was probably just running from my marriage. Right after I deployed, Emily was watching TV, and there was coverage on the troops in Afghanistan. She swears to me that she saw me. After that point, she became obsessed with politics. And that's when she first saw you. The man that was gonna bring Daddy home. And when I finally did come home, I realized that... I'm not her hero anymore. So I guess I just figured that I'd try to help protect the man that is.
- President Sawyer: Well, if she saw you today, Cale, she'd be proud of you.
- Cale: You know how when they're young and they come running up to you and they hug you with all their might, and they're shouting "Daddy," and all of a sudden, one day, that just stops?
- President Sawyer: Yeah.
- Cale: I'd give anything for that hug just one more time.