[Leia doesn't return Qui-Gon's smile, her expression remaining aloof and unreadable instead. It's not that she's not happy the Death Star is gone, because she is, but despite her initial lack of professionalism when the first was destroyed, there's a time and place for celebrating that. A conversation about the future with essentially a stranger is not that place.]

It was a monstrosity that should never have been built in the first place. [you know, like the Empire itself.]

Planetary destruction is something no one should have power over.