“- Bob Roland: Message from the front, sir.
- Rufus T. Firefly: Oh, I'm sick of messages from the front. Don't we ever get a message from the side?”
Zeppo Marx - Bob Roland
Groucho Marx - Rufus T. Firefly

“- John F. Kennedy: Well, who the hell authorized this missile test?
- Robert F. Kennedy: Who do you think? God knows what this is gonna communicate to the Soviets!
- Kenny O'Donnell: Communicate with the Soviets? We can't communicate with the Pentagon and it's just across the goddamn river!”
Bruce Greenwood - John F. Kennedy
Steven Culp - Robert F. Kennedy
Kevin Costner - Kenny O'Donnell

“War's terrible. It's meant to be terrible, and if it stops being terrible, what's going to stop us?”

Josh Lucas - Lt. Ben Gannon

“So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed. It's unspeakable. And yet you know, when we communicate with one another and we feel that we have connected and we think that we're understood I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion. And that feeling might be transient, but I think it's what we live for.”
Kim Krizan - Kim Krizan

“Running, reading, going out, staying in, countryside, films - if they're good. Intelligent, of course, kind, pretty - I suppose, but it's not critical. Someone you can really talk to. I think communication is key.”

Ben Chaplin - John