"It's easy to blame yourself- I did as well, for a long time- but there was nothing we could have done. Even if we had moved against Palpatine, it only would have hastened the lie he used to seize more power- that the Jedi were plotting a coup."

[He places a hand on her shoulder.]

"There was nothing we could have done, except to minimize the damage done by the war- and that is what we did."