Background to Danger

Colonel Robinson:
Curious touch of the grotesque: A dead man on the floor; a condemned man sitting before me; and a Strauss waltz as a funeral march. What could be more entertaining?

Nikolai Zaleshoff:
Oh, you Americans, always in a hurry, hurry, business, business!

'Mac' McNamara:
[Last lines Asking about Joe and Tamara] What are you going to do in Moscow?

Joe Barton:
We're gonna cement Russian-American relations.

Nikolai Zaleshoff:
How did you know the gun wasn't loaded?

Joe Barton:
By its weight.

Nikolai Zaleshoff:
There might have been one bullet in it.

Joe Barton:
That's the chance I had to take.

Nikolai Zaleshoff:
YOU had to take?

Colonel Robinson:
They're taking you downstairs to the cellars. You'll be separated from this room by several meters of stonework, but I think I'll be able to hear your reactions to Capt. Mailler's persuasive methods.

Joe Barton:
When you flop in your country you end up in a coffin.

Colonel Robinson:
[ To Rudick] In international diplomacy, the shortest distance between two points is never a straight line.

Joe Barton:
There's a couple of numbers that won't do you any good. They're in Brooklyn.

Mailler:
[Pointing a gun] Keep moving. Understand?

Joe Barton:
[Reacting to the gun] That's on language I do understand.

Joe Barton:
[Dryly to Robinson] You still talk as much as ever.

Nikolai Zaleshoff:
[Petulantly] I want some vodka! I WANT SOME VODKA!

Nikolai Zaleshoff:
[to Joe] You're a marked man. You're wanted for murder.

'Mac' McNamara:
Where are you headed for now?

Joe Barton:
A wild ride on a Turkish merry-go-round.