“It would be well for your government to consider that having your...” – Dr. Jeffrey Pelt, The Hunt for Red October ... Movie Quotes Database

[to the Soviet Ambassador]

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.

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