“- Billy: What the fuck are you doing here, man? Do you believe in this war?
- Gene: I used to believe in all these wars.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Billy
Mel Gibson - Gene

“I think the street would kill you. Your rhetoric and your propaganda aren't gonna save you out there.”

Avery Brooks - Dr. Bob Sweeney

“You're a man with ideals. Well, I guess I better be going while you still got them.”

Mae West - Flower Belle Lee

“You have a right to have an ideal. Oh, I guess we all have one.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Jean

“You wanna be honest, don't you? You don't have to die to keep the John Doe ideal alive. Someone already died for that once. The first John Doe.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Ann Mitchell