“Be flippant about your own crimes if you want to, but don't be flippant about mine!”
James Stephenson - Howard Joyce

“- Sunhill: I thought you hated places like this.
- Brenner: I do. However the murderer may be in this room, sitting all smug and shiny... until we walked in. And now maybe he's a little less smug and a little less shiny. And that's pretty cool, don't you think?”

Madeleine Stowe - Sara Sunhill
John Travolta - Paul Brenner

“You want an answer? Okay, pappy, think of it as colors. There's black, and there's white, and in between is mostly gray. That's us. Now gray is a tough color, because it's not as simple as black and white - and for the media, certainly not as interesting. But... it's what we are.”
Al Pacino - Mayor John Pappas

“- Fairchild Van Waldenberg: Two men skating together? And in our division, no less! Why, Stranz? Why is God singling us out to the greatest suffering the world has ever known?
- Stranz Van Waldenberg: I don't know, sis; those two are just a couple of freaks.
- Fairchild Van Waldenberg: Yeah, and the media loves freaks.”
Amy Poehler - Fairchild Van Waldenberg
Will Arnett - Stranz Van Waldenberg

“- Hansen: Couldn't we get this thing resolved quicker with F.B.I. or state help?
- Jesse Stone: The F.B.I. and state police bring the national media. You won't like this town when they're through with it.”

Jeremy Akerman - Hansen
Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone