“I'm sixty-five years old. And I'm ashamed. A million years ago... the fucking regret and guilt, these things, don't ever let anyone ever say to you you shouldn't regret anything. Don't do that. Don't! You regret what you fucking want! Use that. Use that. Use that regret for anything, any way you want.”
Jason Robards - Earl Partridge

“I think there's just too much emphasis on guilt. All this guilt, guilt, guilt. Guilt for what? I'll bet if you ask any old timer in one of those old folks homes, they'd tell you they regret the stuff they didn't do. Not the stuff that they did do.”
Laura Ramsey - Audrey Dawns

“In international diplomacy, the shortest distance between two points is never a straight line.”
Sydney Greenstreet - Colonel Robinson

“- Anakin Skywalker: You call this a diplomatic solution?
- Padmé: No, I call it aggressive negotiations.”
Hayden Christensen - Anakin Skywalker
Natalie Portman - Padmé

“- Jarol: I want you to go to Nekron, to his mother, Juliana. We must negotiate.
- Taro: With the enemy?
- Jarol: No man is wholly evil. Surely there is some way to appeal to Nekron.”
Leo Gordon - Jarol
William Ostrander - Taro