Gentlemen, for the last fifteen years, I've fought at this table alongside your predecessors in the struggle against the Soviet. Now I do not wish to seem melodramatic, but I do wish to impress upon you a lesson I learned with bitter tears and great sacrifice. The Soviet understands only one language: action. Respects only one word: force.
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Dean Acheson Let's hope appeasement doesn't run in families. I fear weakness does.
Dean Rusk We were eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fella just blinked.
Robert Kennedy You know, these past couple days, I've been thinking. Thinking about what we've had to do to get where we are... and I was wondering, why the hell are we doing it?
Kenny O'Donnell I don't know about you, but... I'm in it for the money.
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