“- Gail Stanwyk: I didn't know you knew the Underhills.
- Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher: Yeah, well, I saved his life during the war.
- Gail Stanwyk: You were in the war?
- Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher: No, he was. I got him out.”
Dana Wheeler-Nicholson - Gail Stanwyk
Chevy Chase - Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher

“When I was twelve, I helped my daddy build a bomb shelter in our basement because some fool parked a dozen warheads 90 miles off the coast of Florida. Well, this thing could park a coupla hundred warheads off Washington and New York and no one would know anything about it till it was all over.”
Jeffrey Jones - Skip Tyler

“All of our lives, we have fought this war. Tonight I believe we can end it. Tonight is not an accident. There are no accidents. We have not come here by chance. I do not believe in chance. I believe it is our fate to be here. It is our destiny. I believe this night holds for each and every one of us, the very meaning of our lives.”
Laurence Fishburne - Morpheus

“You don't win wars with niceness, doctor. You win wars with guts.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Col. Chester Phillips

- Senator Lane: The war's over. Our side won the war. Now we must busy ourselves winning the peace. And Fletcher, there's an old saying: "to the victors belong the spoils".
- Fletcher: There's another old saying, Senator: "don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining".
Frank Schofield - Senator Lane
John Vernon - Fletcher