Colonel Mace, The Doctor and others in “The Poison Sky”

[seeing the Sontarans] My God... they're like trolls!

Yeah, loving the diplomacy, thanks. So, tell me, General Staal, since when did you lot become cowards?

How dare you!

Oh, that's diplomacy?!

Doctor, you impugn my honour!

Yeah, I'm really glad you didn't say "belittle", 'cos then I'd have a field day. But poison gas? That's the weapon of a coward, and you know it. Staal, you could blast this planet out of the sky, and yet you're sitting up above watching it die! Where's the fight in that, where's the honour?! Or... are you lot planning something else? Because this isn't normal Sontaran warfare. What are you lot up to?

A general would be unwise to reveal his strategy to the opposing forces.

[grinning] Ah, the war's not going so well, then! Losing, are we?

Such a suggestion is impossible!

What war?

The war between the Sontarans and the Rutans. It's been raging, far out in the stars, for fifty thousand years. Fifty thousand years of bloodshed. And for what?!

For victory! Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha! [the other Sontarans join his chanting]

Give me a break... [changes the channel to a cartoon]