Michael Kitz quotes from Contact (1997)

Michael Kitz

Your having sent this announcement all over the world may well constitute a breach of national security.

This isn't a person-to-person call. You can't possibly think that a civilization sending this kind of message would intend it just for Americans.

Michael Kitz

I'm saying you might have consulted us; obviously, the contents of this message could be extremely sensitive.

You want to classify prime numbers?

I assume you read the confidential findings report from the investigating committee.

Michael Kitz

I flipped through it.

I was especially interested in the section on Arroway's video unit. The one that recorded the static?

Michael Kitz

Continue.

The fact that it recorded static isn't what interests me.

Michael Kitz

Continue...

What interests me is that it recorded approximately eighteen hours of it.

Michael Kitz

That is interesting, isn't it?

Twenty million people died defeating that son of a bitch, and he's our first ambassador to outer space?

Actually the Hitler broadcast from the...

David Drumlin

'36 olympics was the first television transmission of any power that went in to space. That they recorded it, and sent it back, is simply a way of saying "hello, we heard you."

Michael Kitz

Or, "Sieg Heil, you're our kind of people."