“Gen. Gray: Are you all right? President Thomas Whitmore: I saw...its thoughts. I saw what they're planning to do. They're like locusts. They're moving from planet to planet...their whole civilization. After they've consumed every natural resource they move on... and we're next. Nuke 'em. Let's nuke…”
— Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich, President Thomas J. Whitmore, Bill Pullman, imdb.com