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Ro: "Don't you understand? These are desperate people ready to murder themselves, they don't want to talk."
   
Guinan: "Am I disturbing you?"
Ro: "Yes."
Guinan: "Good, you look like someone who likes to be disturbed."
Ro: "I rather be alone."
Guinan: "Oh, no you wouldn't."
Ro: "I beg your pardon?"
Guinan: "If you wanted to be alone you would've stayed in your quarters."
   
Ro: "You are not like any bartender I met before."
Guinan: "And you're not like any Starfleet officer I met before. But that sounds like the beginning of a ... very interesting friendship."
Ro: "I don't stay anywhere long enough to make friends."
Guinan: "Too late. You just did... Excuse me."
   
Ro: "Why is it that every time I tell you something you tell me I mean the exact opposite."
Guinan: "Because you are one of those people who's got their poles reversed."
   
Ro: [on Bajorans] "They're lost. Defeated. I will never be."
   
Keeve: "How convenient it must be for you. To turn a deaf ear to those who suffer behind a line on a map."
Picard: "I'm not here to debate Federation policy. I am prepared to offer assistance..."
Keeve: "Simply because of one terrorist attack? Then perhaps I have been wrong. We should have attacked the Federation long ago. What do you think of that, Ro?"
Ro: "I think you are a small man who feels a rush of power in his belly and enjoys it far too much, Keeve. Stop talking and listen."
   
Keeve: "You were innocent bystanders for decades as the Cardassians took our homes... as they violated and tortured our people in the most hideous ways imaginable... as we were forced to flee..."
Picard: "We were saddened by those events... but they occurred within the designated borders of the Cardassian Empire..."
Keeve: "... and the Federation is pledged not to interfere in the internal affairs of others."

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