Steve Martin: "You may have to re-think your strategies, gentlemen. There's possibly no weapon, on Earth, that can defeat Godzilla except perhaps..."
General Goodhoe: "Who are you?"
Steve Martin: "The name is 'Martin'. You asked for me to be brought here."
Colonel Raschen: "Mr. Martin is the man you wanted to see, General. He's the newspaper man who witnessed Godzilla's attack 30 years ago."
Steve Martin: "Well thank God you're here. Seeing as how you seem to be the only person who seems to know anything about whatever it is we're dealing with, what can we do?"
General Goodhoe: "I was the only American to have survived that catastrophy. If you men had seen what I saw, you'd realize that fire power of any kind or magnitude is not the answer."
Steve Martin: "Well if the Japanese were able to stop him 30 years ago, why can't we now? ... General, Godzilla's like a hurricane or a tidal wave. We must approach him as we would a force of nature. We must understand him. Deal with him. Perhaps, even, try to communicate with him. And, just for the record, 30 years ago they never found any corpse."