Player Quotes From Previous Games

Yeltsin to Zhyuganov, after hearing rumors of coup plot:

Try it and your picture’ll be on a vodka bottle.

European delegate to Brussels, assuring a Japanese player that he had the credentials to sit in on the Europeans’ meeting:

It’s an EU meeting. You don’t even have to be alive...

U.S. SecDef to DCI after the Media had just asked -- for about the fifteenth time -- for “The Truth about UFOs at Area 51”:

C’mon, you remember, Bill. We were all sitting around the flying saucer, toasting marshmallows.

Russian player explaining why he visits European cell so much:

I always spend a lot of time in the European cell. They’re fun to watch.

U.S. Secretary of State explaining the U.S. President’s ill-temper to the visiting Japanese Prime Minister:

Don’t even try to talk to him for 15 minutes after he gets back from China. Twenty minutes, if it’s Congress...

Overhearing the SecState-PM dialogue, the Secretary of Interior just had to get the last word in:

Quit complaining; at least he didn’t throw up on your shoes.

The U.S. Attorney General to a Senator objecting to his conduct:

When I want your opinion, I’ll subpoena you.

Advice from an experienced Russian player to a new player:

If you see one of the other ministers embezzling, don’t try it yourself. The media always catches the second guy.