Gunny Martin: They're not even dogs anymore. They're warriors, and they come back with all the same issues we do.
John Walcott: We do not write for the people who send people's kids to war. We write for the people whose kids get sent to war.
Eric Marsh: The world's full of people taking chances.
Mark Felt: The White House is packing all its crimes in separate little boxes. Watergate, the spying, the ugliness, the rot. Each thing in a different box so that no-one can put it together, so that no-one sees it's all connected. And no-one will care, but it's all the same big thing.
Sandy Smith: And Watergate? Just the gateway.
Daphne Milne: You know what writing a book against war is like? It's like writing a book against Wednesdays. Wednesdays... are a fact of life, and if you don't like them, you could just stay in bed, but you can't stop them because Wednesdays are coming and if today isn't actually a Wednesday it soon will be.
Winston Churchill: I am choosing between trials and tribulations. Do stop adding to them.
Peter Turner: Has anyone ever told you that you look like Lauren Bacall when you smoke?
Gloria Grahame: Humphrey Bogart. And I didn't like it then either.