National Security Decision Making:
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Player Quotes From Previous Games



PRC Foreign Min’s reply to U.S. SecState, who wanted to know how he’d anticipated a sneaky move by Russia at G-8 meeting:
I’m omniscient.
U.S. SecState: I thought you guys were Buddhist.



U.S. Media to a controller who happened to be standing by as the American player entered the Iranian cell during a coup:

Cover me. I'm going in.



One U.S. player’s review of a candidate for the Presidency :

He doesn’t have a plan... but he’s got great talking points.



Iranian observer on U.S. President’s State of the Union address:

Okay, who stopped the payment on her reality check?



U.S. President, asking the cabinet to come up with “bells and whistles” to help him “sell” the Policy & Budget to Congress:

I have the bread, I just need the baloney.



PRC Controller to Game Director, reporting that the PRC PolitBuro members were slowly coming to the realization that they’d put the wrong guy in charge of The Button:

They had that “Silence of the Lambs” look.



Israeli PM gives his considered opinion of Egyptian President:

A typical cow in the herd.



U.S. President to U.S. Navy player: Did you send another carrier to the Med?
U.S. Navy player: No; did you want me to?
U.S. President to U.S. Navy player : Well, I wasn’t very specific. All I said was, “Send another carrier to the Med.”

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