“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

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

“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

“- Felina: My fear is my curse. What's yours?
- John Smith: I was born without a conscience.”
Karina Lombard - Felina
Bruce Willis - John Smith

“You know, for a guy with no principles, sometimes you act kinda peculiar.”

William Sanderson - Joe Monday