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Captain John Pringle: How is good old Iowa?
Phoebe Frost: Sixty-two percent Republican, thank you.
Captain John Pringle: Don't tell me it's subversive to kiss a Republican!
Erika von Schluetow: Let's go up to my apartment. It's only a few ruins away from here.
Erika von Schluetow: We've all become animals with exactly one instinct left. Self-preservation. Now take me, Miss Frost. Bombed out a dozen times, everything caved in and pulled out from under me. My country, my possessions, my beliefs... yet somehow I kept going. Months and months in air raid shelters, crammed in with five thousand other people. I kept going. What do you think it was like to be a woman in this town when the Russians first swept in? I kept going.
Erika von Schluetow: So you fly off back home. Wash your hands. Why, surely. You've got so much soap in the United States.
Congressman Pennecot: If you give a hungry man a loaf of bread, that's democracy, if you leave the wrapper on, that's imperialism.
Erika von Schluetow: [singing] Want to buy some illusions? Slightly used, just like new. Such romantic illusions, and they're all about you. I sell them all for a penny, they make pretty souvenirs. Take my lovely illusions, some for laughs, some for tears.
Phoebe Frost: We'll go there right now!
Captain John Pringle: Where?
Phoebe Frost: To the files!
Captain John Pringle: In the middle of the night? Shouldn't we get permission?
Phoebe Frost: Did we get permission to land in Normandie? Let's go!
Phoebe Frost: How do you know so much about women's clothing?
Captain John Pringle: My mother wears women's clothing.
Col. Rufus J. Plummer: Moral! Maybe someday we can send a little committee of our own investigating moral in Washington D.C.

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