Quotes for
Johnny Rico (Character)
from Starship Troopers (1997)

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Starship Troopers (1997)

Johnny Rico: Mr. Rasczak, I want to join the Federal Service and become a citizen. But my Dad thinks I should go to college and remain a civilian as he has. What should I do?
Jean Rasczak: Figuring things out for yourself is practically the only freedom anyone really has nowadays. Use that freedom.

Johnny Rico: I'm from Buenos Aires, and I say kill 'em all!

[last lines]
Newsreel announcer: We have the ships. We have the weapons. We need soldiers. Soldiers like Lieutenant Stack Lumbreiser...
Lt. Lumbreiser: Over the target area now, Captain.
Newsreel announcer: ...and Captain Carmen Ibanez.
Carmen: This is the captain speaking. All personnel prepare for drop.
Newsreel announcer: Soldiers like Private Ace Levy and Lieutenant John Rico.
Johnny Rico: Come on you apes, you wanna live forever?
Newsreel announcer: We need you all. Service guarantees citizenship.

Johnny Rico: Someone asked me once if I knew the difference between a civilian and a citizen. I know now. A citizen has the courage to make the safety of the human race their personal responsibility. Dizzy was my friend. She was a soldier. But most important, she was a citizen of the Federation.

Carl: We thought there might be a Brain Bug on 'P'.
Carmen: You knew and still you sent them?
Carl: We couldn't afford to launch an operation if there wasn't one.
[both Carmen and Johnny look at Carl with contempt]
Carl: You disapprove? Well, too bad! We're in this war for the species, boys and girls. It's simple numbers. They have more. And every day I have to make decisions that send hundreds of people like you to their deaths.
Johnny Rico: Didn't they tell you, Colonel? That's what the Mobile Infantry is good for.

Johnny Rico: You're some sort of big, fat, smart-bug, aren't you?

Dizzy: Rico, I'm dying.
Johnny Rico: No Diz, you’ll be fine.
Dizzy: But it's OK, because I got to have you.

Johnny: M.I. does the dying. Fleet just does the flying.

Johnny Rico: This is Roughneck Two-Zero-One. I request retrieval now! This place crawls, sir!
Radio operator: [voice] What is your location?
Johnny Rico: Come down on this transmission.
Radio operator: On the outpost? That's crazy!
Johnny Rico: Well, I hope you have a crazy pilot. Out.

Johnny Rico: These are the rules. Everybody fights, nobody quits. If you don't do your job I'll kill you myself. Welcome to the Roughnecks
Private Sugar Watkins: Rico's Roughnecks

Johnny Rico: Who are these kids?
Ace Levy: We got reinforced. Most of them are fresh out of boot.
Johnny Rico: We're the old men, Ace.

Private Sugar Watkins: Gimme the nuke
Johnny Rico: You trying to be a hero, Watkins?
Private Sugar Watkins: Just trying to kill some bugs, sir.

Johnny Rico: I hear you got a bug problem ma'am?
Corporal Birdie: Ah, stuff it, Rico!

Jean Rasczak: You got 10 minutes to get ready and go.
Johnny Rico: Yes sir.
Jean Rasczak: Whos's in there with you?
Dizzy: Flores, sir.
Jean Rasczak: Make it 20.
Johnny Rico: We can do it.

General Owen: I had to evade capture. The lives of the Federation were at stake
Ace Levy: [background] Fire in the Hole!
[explosion]
General Owen: [startled by the explosion] I have operational knowledge of what were up to out here.
Jean Rasczak: Dizzi, give me a status report.
Johnny Rico: [softly] she's working on it
General Owen: Here, they did it to Farley, they got into his mind. They made Farley call HeadQuarters.
Johnny Rico: The distress call was a trap.
General Owen: They're just like us, they wanna know what makes us tick. They wanna knows so they can kill us.
Jean Rasczak: This is Rasczak, prepare for attack, i repeat prepare for attack!

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Starship Troopers (2005) (VG)

General John Rico: Come on, you apes. You want to live forever?

General John Rico: Bugs, bugs, bugs.

General John Rico: Kill em' all.

General John Rico: On the bounce!

General John Rico: Starship Troopers.

General John Rico: The only good bug is a dead bug.

General John Rico: Listen up.

General John Rico: You are a Starship Trooper.

General John Rico: Do you want to know more?

General John Rico: Saddle up!

General John Rico: Kill everything with more than two legs.

General John Rico: Marauder.

General John Rico: Way to go.

General John Rico: They sucked his brains out.

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