Awwww…he’s making so many friends and oh gee! He’s enrolled in school and I thought I saw him playing kickball! Awwww! Well guess what, you idiots? He’s still an outer space alien and he still belongs in a science zoo to be studied!
-The Lead Scientist, mocking a group of assistant scientists who wondered if they were overreacting and maybe ET could just live on Earth like a person.
Source: ET: Deleted Scenes