- Harry Sherwood: Why don't you xerox 100 copies of that report, pass them out among 100 guys in Washington and then organize 100 meetings to discuss it, and by that time the meteor will have hit and we won't have any more problems!
- Dr. Paul Bradley: You'd like it here, you know. We've got everything. Power cuts, strikes, unemployment, race riots, and a terrific crime rate.
- Dr. Paul Bradley: [attempting to reduce the number of interpreters who continue to speak over each other] If it's a matter of choosing, I'll take the pretty one.
- Harry Sherwood: That meteor is five miles wide, and it's definitely gonna hit us!
- Dr. Paul Bradley: Shit!
- Dr. Paul Bradley: Would you really have gone across my bows?
- Coast Guard Officer: Yes, sir!
- Dr. Paul Bradley: Well then I would have rammed you.
- Coast Guard Officer: All the way to the bottom, sir!