Team Rocket's Mottos

In almost every season and/or region, Team Rocket has a motto - either Cassidy and Butch or Jessie and James. Sometimes Ash and his friends imitate Jessie, James, and Meowth's mottos.

Original Motto
Jessie: Prepare for trouble...

James: ...and make it double!

Jessie: To protect the world from devastation!

James: To unite all peoples within our nation!

Jessie: To denounce the evils of truth and love!

James: To extend our reach to the stars above!

Jessie: Jessie!

James: James!

Jessie: Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!

James: Surrender now or prepare to fight!

Meowth: Meowth, dat's right!

Butch and Cassidy Motto
Butch and Cassidy had their own motto which they insist is the correct version.

Cassidy: Prepare for trouble...

Butch: ...and make it double!

Cassidy: To infect the world with devastation!

Butch: To blight all people in every nation!

Cassidy: To denounce the goodness of truth and love!

Butch: To extend our wrath to the stars above.

Cassidy: Cassidy.

Butch: Butch

Cassidy: We're Team Rocket, circling Earth day and night.

Butch: Surrender to us now or you'll surely lose the fight.

Raticate: Raticate.

Cassidy's and James's motto

 * Cassidy: Prepare for trouble, it's a brand new day!
 * James: We're making it double anyway!
 * Mime Jr.: Mime mime, mime mime mime!
 * Cassidy: Let's see if I can remember my lines! An evil as old as the galaxy!
 * James: Sent here to fulfill our destiny!
 * Cassidy: To denounce the goodness of truth and love!
 * James: To extend our reach to the stars above!
 * Cassidy: Whenever there's a piece of pie in the universe!
 * James: Of pie!?
 * Cassidy (stopping the motto): Aaah... I goofed it, so what!?
 * James (despairing): Forget it...

Jessie's and Butch's motto
 Battle Frontier Motto
 * Jessie: Prepare for trouble, we've shuffled the deck!
 * Butch: It's not my thing, but what the heck!?
 * Jessie: An evil as old as the galaxy!
 * Butch: I'm doing this all from memory!
 * Jessie: To denounce the evils of truth and love!
 * Butch: To extend my arm with a big white glove!
 * Jessie (angrily looking at him): Jessie!
 * Butch (realizing that his previous line was somewhat idiotic): Aaah, Butch...
 * Jessie (kicking him in the face): Cut! Do it right or don't do it at all!
 * Cassidy and Butch's Sinnoh motto
 * Cassidy: A shrieking whine! A blast from the past!
 * Butch: Spinning like a Gyro Ball and moving fast!
 * Cassidy: To the moon...
 * Butch: ...And beyond...
 * Both: ...What a blast!
 * Cassidy: Administering justice with lightning speed!
 * Butch: Bashing the bad guys, should we feel the need.
 * Cassidy: So here's a newsflash from across the wire...
 * Butch: The real Team Rocket is now on fire!
 * Cassidy: Cassidy!
 * Butch: And it's Butch!
 * Shuckle: Shuck-uckle!
 * Cassidy: Teaching the losers a thing or two...
 * Butch: ...The true Team Rocket...
 * Both: Us! Not you!

Jessie: Prepare for trouble from beyond the skies!

James: From beyond the stars, a nasty surprise!

Jessie: An evil as old as the galaxy...

James: ...sent here to fulfill our destiny!

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Meowth: Plus, there's me! (sometimes spoken as "Meowth, dat's me!")

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Jessie: To denounce the evils of truth and love!

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">James: To extend our reach to the stars above!

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Jessie: Jessie!

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">James: And James!

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Meowth: And Meowth are the names! (sometimes spoken as "Meowth's my name!")

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Jessie: Anywhere there's peace in the universe...

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">James: Team Rocket...

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Meowth: ...Will be there...

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Jessie, James, and Meowth: To make everything worse!

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Wobbuffet: Wobbuffet!

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Mime Jr: Mime Mime!

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Sinnoh Motto 

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Jessie: Listen, is that a voice I hear?

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">James: It's speaking to me loud and clear.

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Jessie: Melting on the wind...

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">James: Past the stars...

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Meowth: And in ya' ear!

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Jessie: Bringing chaos at a break neck pace...

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">James: Dashing hope, bringing fear in it's place.

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Jessie: A rose by any other name is just as sweet...

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">James: When everything's worse, our work is complete.

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Jessie: Jessie!

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">James: And it's James!

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Meowth: And Meowth, now dat's a name!

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Jessie: Putting the do-gooders in their place...

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">James: ... We're Team Rocket...

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Meowth: And we're in ya' face!

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Wobbuffet: Wooobuffet!

<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Mime Jr.: Mime! Mime! Unova Motto:

Jessie: Again is the question so twerpish indeed!

James: The answer to come as we feel the need!

Jessie: Bringing the blinding, white light of evil into the future!

James: Thrusting the hammer of justice down onto the black darkness of the universe!

Meowth: And carving our names into the rock of eternity!

Jessie: The fiery destroyer: I'm Jessie!

James: And with thunderous emotion, I am James!

Meowth: Wisest of the wise, I am Meowth!

Jessie, James, and Meowth: Now gather, under the name of Team Rocket!

Lines: (Japanese)

 * Original Motto:

Jessie: If one asks this or that,: James: The answer we'll give is society's sympathy. Jessie: To prevent world destruction James: To protect world peace Jessie: We carry out an evil of love and truth! James: Playing the lovely, charming villain roles... Jessie:Musashi! (Jessie!) James: Kojiro! (James!) Jessie:The Rocket Gang travels to any star in the galaxy and... James: A white hole...a white tomorrow is waiting for us! Meowth: That's right! OR (the Team Rocket motto have many translations) Jessie: If anyone asks us this or that, James: The answer we'll give is society's sympathy. Jessie: For the sake of preventing world destruction, James: For the sake of protecting world peace, Jessie: To penetrate the evils of love and truth, James: The lovely and charming villains, Jessie: Musashi! James: Kojiro! Jessie: Wagering the galaxy, we're the Rocket Gang couple. James: A white hole...we're waiting for a white tomorrow! Meowth: That's right!

Ash and his Gang's (changes) motto:

Bye Bye Butterfree

 * Ash: Prepare for trouble!
 * Misty: And you can make that triple!
 * Brock: To protect the world from devastation!
 * Ash and Misty: To unite all peoples within our nation!
 * Jessie (deadpan): This was just...
 * James (deadpan): Too good...
 * Meowth (deadpan): To last.
 * Ash: You got that right.
 * Pikachu: Pika!
 * Misty: We're defending the beauty of truth and love!
 * Brock: Let's do it!
 * Meowth (interrupting them): We gotta stop that!

Ditto's Mysterious Mansion
<p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">(So far, this is the only episode of the series to show Ash and his friends actually completely doing the whole original motto.)


 * Ash: Prepare for trouble!
 * Brock: And make it Double, Double!
 * James (angrily): Uhh, quit imitating us!
 * Misty: To protect the world from devastation!
 * Duplica: To ignite all people within our nation!
 * Jessie (angrily): Err! This is insulting!
 * Ash: To denounce the evils of truth and love!
 * Misty: To extend our reach to the stars above!
 * Ash: Ash!
 * Misty: Misty!
 * Brock: And Brock!
 * Duplica: Duplica, that's right!
 * Brock: Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light!
 * Duplica: Surrender now, or prepare to fight all of us!
 * Pikachu: Pika, Pika!

Schpielbunk's motto
<p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In the episode Lights, Camera, Quacktion! the director, Cleavon Schpielbunk, introduces himself with a motto which is very similar to that of Team Rocket.


 * Prepare for trouble! No stunt double!
 * To protect the movies from devastation!
 * To restore spectacle and imagination!
 * To make great epics of hate and love!
 * To direct the best films you ever heard of!
 * Cleavon Schpielbunk, winner of the Golden Growlithe for best director at the Flea Collar Film Festival!
 * Lights! Camera!
 * Hit your mark when I call "Action!" or prepare to fight!
 * That's right!

The Chikorita Rescue
<p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In this episode, Ash Ketchum breaks into a Team Rocket hideout to save a Chikorita, captured by Jessie and James. He recites a motto and Team Rocket instinctively says their phrases.


 * Ash: Team Rocket, prepare for trouble! On second thought, make that double!
 * Jessie (surprised): To protect the world from devastation?
 * James (surprised): To unite all peoples within our nation?
 * Ash: Maybe you think I'm a little too brash. But the master is here and my name is Ash!
 * Pikachu: Pikachu!
 * Ash: My Pokémon team is faster than light! Surrender now or you're in for a fight!
 * Meowth: Meowth! That's right!

Mass Hip-Po-Sis

 * Dawn (really angry): Get ready for trouble!
 * Pikachu (really angry): Pika!
 * Brock (really angry): Make it double!
 * James (shocked): Hey, no fair!

The Keystone Pops!

 * Ash: Listen, is that bad-guy talk I hear?
 * Dawn: It speaks to me loud and clear!
 * Ash: On the wind!
 * Dawn: Past the stars!
 * Brock: In your ear!
 * Jessie (interrupting them): It's that kind of imitation they invented lawsuits for!
 * Dawn: Chill out! We couldn't care less!
 * Ash: We're looking for Spiritomb!

Summary
There are even more Team Rocket mottos, that have only been said in one episode - because they tend to change it, or have failed. Also, they usually have 'copied phrases', when a 'good person' asks a question; and if one of their team members are not at presence, one of the trio fills in for that person (e.g. Jessie has a cold, then James fills her line...).