“Once again, the L.A.P.D. is asking Los Angelenos not to fire their guns at the visitor spacecraft. You may inadvertently trigger an interstellar war.”
Gary W. Cruz - Video Newscaster

“Wanna know what a blast wound looks like? What an OR in the desert smells like? What really happens to them? How they die? You really wanna know? You want us to come back like nothing ever happened. You don't want to get your handsdirty with the details.”

Samuel L. Jackson - Will Marsh

“- Joe Huxley: Those are Minuteman missiles!
- Cynthia: Like a test, sort of... like a warning?
- Joe Huxley: They're on their way to Russia. They take about 30 minutes to reach their target.
- Aldo: So do theirs, right?”

John Lithgow - Joe Huxley
Alston Ahern - Cynthia
Stephen Furst - Aldo

“It would be well for your government to consider that having your ships and ours, your aircraft and ours, in such proximity... is inherently dangerous. Wars have begun that way, Mr. Ambassador.”
Richard Jordan - Jeffrey Pelt

“Sure be glad when this war is ended, so then we can putt without being blown up.”

Ernest Borgnine - Gen. Worden