“A teacher educates our children and they become model citizens, the clergymen preaches we find spiritually, my bank gives loans and homes get built but now there's a new darker influence in Cincinnati and we cannot hide from this. Decent people are being corrupted.”

James Cromwell - Charles Keating

“There are no straight lawyers in Turkey. All bent. Bent, as happens, occupational necessity. They have special classes in corruption at night school. If you get suspected of honesty, then you get disbarred.”
Sir John Hurt - Max

“- Gordo: What Jammer needs is a good shyster.
- Lana: Barkley's father's a shyster! And a lawyer.”
Albert Insinnia - Gordo
Kimberly Beck - Lana

“- Barley: Who are you, Dante? What do you do for a living?
- Dante: I am a moral outcast.
- Barley: Well it's always nice to meet a writer.”
Sir Sean Connery - Barley
Klaus Maria Brandauer - Dante

“You know as well as I do, that plenty of people playing this game, they don't think that way. They're willing to sell their souls, crawl through sewers, lie to people, divide them, play on their worst fears for nothing! Just for the prize.”

John Travolta - Governor Jack Stanton