- Nikolai Zaleshoff: How did you know the gun wasn't loaded?
- Joe Barton: By its weight.
- Nikolai Zaleshoff: There might have been one bullet in it.
- Joe Barton: That's the chance I had to take.
- Nikolai Zaleshoff: YOU had to take?
- 'Mac' McNamara: [Last lines Asking about Joe and Tamara] What are you going to do in Moscow?
- Joe Barton: We're gonna cement Russian-American relations.
- Colonel Robinson: Curious touch of the grotesque: A dead man on the floor; a condemned man sitting before me; and a Strauss waltz as a funeral march. What could be more entertaining?
- Colonel Robinson: They're taking you downstairs to the cellars. You'll be separated from this room by several meters of stonework, but I think I'll be able to hear your reactions to Capt. Mailler's persuasive methods.
- Colonel Robinson: [To Rudick] In international diplomacy, the shortest distance between two points is never a straight line.
- Mailler: [Pointing a gun] Keep moving. Understand?
- Joe Barton: [Reacting to the gun] That's one language I do understand.
- Colonel Robinson: Our problem is a simple one. We must create an incident. Any kind of an incident that will convince Turkey Russia is about to attack her. How we accomplish this does not matter.
- Colonel Robinson: In international diplomacy, the shortest distance between two points is never a straight line. We must use the back door to Turkey. Somewhere on the road to Ankara, we will make use of our friends. Friends who can be bought for the occasion.
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