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	Unknown Episode: Jeffrey Jones: I don't care what you say. The Omni needs a 60 zillion mile check-up. Phineas Bogg: Quit complaining. We almost missed the lake. Didn't we? Jeffrey Jones: Almost? Funny, I don't feel almost wet. I feel soaked!
	Unknown Episode: Jeffrey Jones: [reads the back of a boxer's shirt] Brown Bomber. You know who that is? Phineas Bogg: Are you kidding? That's Joe Louis, Heavyweight champ. Maybe the best there ever was. Jeffrey Jones: Hey! I thought you said you were at the bottom of your class. Phineas Bogg: And Light Heavyweight champ of my boxing team. This is my kind of history.
	Unknown Episode: Jeffrey Jones: [just arrived on a 747] Hey, look, right in mid-air. We never did this before. Phineas Bogg: What'd you go and Omni us out for? [refers to his boxing opponent] I was psyching him out. Jeffrey Jones: Look, I don't like the sight of blood. Okay? Especially yours.
	Unknown Episode: Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Mama's right. I best stick to my writing. I can't do Al Smith any good making a nominating speech from a wheelchair. Phineas Bogg: [gets some crutches] How about these? Franklin Delano Roosevelt: I have never used them. Phineas Bogg: Well you're gonna learn. So the delegates and the whole world can see you nominate Al Smith on your feet.
	Unknown Episode: Dr. Erika Schumann: What is safe anymore? We used to have respect, used to have a life. Now... What are we? Huh. Just something to buy? Sell? Throw away? That's not what people are for.
	Unknown Episode: Jeffrey Jones: I've traveled. Boy, have I traveled. Look, it's not the only place to live, but it stands for what you're looking for. It means being able to do what you want, being able to go where you want. [looks at Phineas] Phineas Bogg: Go on. You're doing fine. Jeffrey Jones: And if you want to build rockets to go into space, well nobody but nobody can beat us. Why do you think we're winning this war? [to Phineas] Think I overdid it? Phineas Bogg: [beams proudly] You've got my vote Senator.
	Unknown Episode: Phineas Bogg: [to Von Braun] Somehow I'm going to see that you make it to the Americans. But I can't do that if one of your own people is sabotaging us every step of the say.
	Unknown Episode: Phineas Bogg: I guess it's hard to think about leaving your country and starting all over again, huh? Dr. Erika Schumann: It is. Phineas Bogg: Well, this may not make very much sense right now, but believe me, if you and the others can get to the Americans; everything's going to be all right. You'll have a decent life.
	Unknown Episode: Phineas Bogg: [to Von Braun over the radio, on eluding the Nazis] I can't promise you anything, but there's still a good chance you can get through. Werner Von Braun: What are you talking about? Phineas Bogg: I have a plan but we'll have to work fast. And I'll need your help Doctor. We're going to make the Nazi's think the Americans are attacking the village. Werner Von Braun: You won't let go of me will you? Phineas Bogg: You're the man. You've always been the man. Your people know it and you know it too.
	Unknown Episode: Phineas Bogg: I know it's hard to understand, but, sometimes history's cruel. There's wars, disasters, injustices, but some of those things, no matter how much you want them not to happen, are supposed to happen.
	Unknown Episode: Phineas Bogg: Leyte Island, Philippines, 1944. Jeffrey Jones: World War II. This is great. Phineas Bogg: Great? You're getting a little warped kid. No war is great.
	Unknown Episode: Phineas Bogg: [looking at the flashing red Omni] December 6, 1941, Pearl Harbor. Right on target. Jeffrey Jones: Tomorrow that'll be a bad joke.
	Unknown Episode: Jeffrey Jones: You know Bogg it is kind of hard not to try. Phineas Bogg: What? Jeffrey Jones: To change history. Phineas Bogg: Oh. Yeah I know. One of the drawbacks of the job.
	Unknown Episode: Phineas Bogg: [to Jackie Knox] The kid and I travel back through time with that time machine you confiscated from us. And when we land in some place where something's wrong, we try to get things back on the right track.
	Unknown Episode: Jackie Knox: Have you ever thought of quitting? Phineas Bogg: Sure, lots of times. But, I don't know I... This is what I do. It's what I want to do. I couldn't quit.
	Unknown Episode: Phineas Bogg: We gotta stop those marriages. Jeffrey Jones: No, just one of them. Alexandra is supposed to marry Tsar Nicholas. Phineas Bogg: Well then it's Princess Victoria and her Duke who won't be hearing wedding bells.
	Unknown Episode: Jeffrey Jones: These landings start to get to you after a while. Phineas Bogg: Hard landings are an occupational hazard. We had a saying at Voyager school: "It's not where you land but how you land that counts."
	Unknown Episode: Phineas Bogg: [about the Russian Duke] Well one thing's for sure, the Princess doesn't want to marry him. Jeffrey Jones: She may not have to. The Aide said the betrothal might not come off unless the Duke wins the match. Phineas Bogg: That's not much to hang our hats on. Jeffrey Jones: Right. Buffalo Bill did ask Annie to throw it. Phineas Bogg: Yeah? Jeffrey Jones: Yeah. Something about the Duke being humiliated in front of the Queen if Annie wins. Phineas Bogg: What's so humiliating about losing to Annie? Everybody knows what a good shot she is. Jeffrey Jones: In 1887, women weren't supposed to beat men at anything. Phineas Bogg: So Annie beats the Duke and the Queen gives back the Princess's hand.
	Unknown Episode: Annie Oakley: ...when you're a woman livin' in a man's world, you learn real fast that fair's got nothin' to do with it. You learn you gotta be twice as good as a man just to be considered equal. You learn never to make a mistake. Never to lose your temper. Never to let down your guard. Cause somehow that one moment of just bein' human is gonna be used against you as a woman.
	Unknown Episode: Phineas Bogg: [the year is 1776] Pretty peaceful for a Revolution. Jeffrey Jones: Well it's gotta be here somewhere. All we gotta do is find it. Phineas Bogg: Yeah, well let me tell you something about Revolutions. If you stay around long enough in one place, they'll find you.
	Unknown Episode: Jeffrey Jones: He's going to be really mad when he finds out you tricked him. Phineas Bogg: What's he gonna do about it? Slip under the door? [Walks away] Come on. Jeffrey Jones: You know, I think you've got something against dogs. Phineas Bogg: I don't have anything against dogs. What I do have is teeth marks. Millenniums of teeth marks.
	Unknown Episode: George Washington: You know I hate boats. I'm just lucky I never joined the Navy. I get seasick. Phineas Bogg: Mind a bit of advice? George Washington: Good advice I never mind. Bad advice I tolerate. Phineas Bogg: Stand in the bow, uh, you get the wind in your face. Makes your stomach think it's on dry land. George Washington: I'll try it. Phineas Bogg: Okay.
	Unknown Episode: Phineas Bogg: Bat's breath [Jeffrey laughs] . You made me spill my guava whip. What are you laughing about? And what's the big idea Omniing us out of Hawaii? I wasn't read to leave. Jeffrey Jones: Our vacation was over. Phineas Bogg: In case you didn't notice, I was having a very intimate conversation with a girl in a grass skirt. Jeffrey Jones: I noticed. Phineas Bogg: Yeah, well you also notice how beautiful she was? How sweet? How innocent? Jeffrey Jones: How married? Phineas Bogg: Married? Jeffrey Jones: Married, to the tribal chieftain. She was wife number eighteen. Phineas Bogg: Eighteen? That doesn't seem fair. A guy with eighteen wives. Jeffrey Jones: He also had a couple hundred warriors who were giving you the evil eye.
	Unknown Episode: Jeffrey Jones: So which way is Nassau? We've gotta find Lafitte. Phineas Bogg: Down the beach, around those rocks. Jeffrey Jones: You sure? Phineas Bogg: Hey kid, I was a pirate long before I was a Voyager. Where do you think I got these clothes?
	Unknown Episode: Phineas Bogg: One good thing about swamps, they're soft. Jeffrey Jones: Yeah, and foggy. Just how it's supposed to be. Is this the right date? Phineas Bogg: [opens the Omni] January 8th, 1815 and it's red. Jeffrey Jones: Maybe it's not Lafitte. Let's find out what's going on. Phineas Bogg: It's going to be Lafitte. I know it is.
	Unknown Episode: Abraham Lincoln: I don't remember seeing you at the White House? Phineas Bogg: [dressed as a soldier] No Sir, you wouldn't have. I just returned from the front. Abraham Lincoln: Oh yeah... what front? Phineas Bogg: ...Western front? Abraham Lincoln: Ah, it's been a hard campaign up there!
	Unknown Episode: Phineas Bogg: What happens if the South does win the Civil War? Jeffrey Jones: Are you kidding me? Phineas Bogg: You're the history book in pants.
	Unknown Episode: Jane Phillips: You dance beautifully. I suppose you do, uh, everything as well? Phineas Bogg: Some things I do much better.
	Unknown Episode: Jeffrey Jones: You know, I've gotta tell ya, you were really hot out there. I didn't know you could dance like that. Phineas Bogg: Are you kidding? Didn't you ever hear of Nijinsky? Jeffrey Jones: Come on Bogg. You're not going to tell me you taught Nijinsky how to dance? Phineas Bogg: Taught him? Wednesday matinees I was Nijinsky.
	Unknown Episode: Phineas Bogg: You're tougher to please than Abner Doubleday. Jeffrey Jones: You were there when Abner Doubleday invented baseball? Phineas Bogg: Yeah, well I knew him as Captain Doubleday at Fort Sumter. We tossed the ball around a bit between battles. He thought my pitch was pretty good. Phineas Bogg: Give me a break.

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