“- U.S. Bates: Take your pants down
- Mr. Morehouse: Sir?
- U.S. Bates: Take your pants down.
[Morehouse pulls his pants down]
- U.S. Bates: That's power.”
Jackie Gleason - U.S. Bates
Ned Beatty - Mr. Morehouse

“- General William Devereaux: Do you think that I would hesitate to kill you, or every Federal Agent in this room, if I thought it was in the best interest of my country?
- Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: No, no, no, you wouldn't hesitate, I know that. But they might. Give the order. Make murderers out of these young kids, give the order.”

Bruce Willis - General William Devereaux
Denzel Washington - Anthony Hubbard

“You're not gonna shoot me Sean, not this bitch, ‘cause she's worth thirty seven million pounds.”
Thandie Newton - Nyah Nordoff-Hall

“- Kumar: At least they will give us discipline.
- Billy Kwan: Stalin had good Discipline. He wiped out 10 million.”

Bembol Roco - Kumar
Linda Hunt - Billy Kwan

“- C.O.: It was a confused situation. In these circumstances, what you saw, what you think you saw, can be a very different thing to what actually happened. Do you understand?
- C.O.: [firmly] Do you understand?
- Lt. Armitage: Yes, sir.”

Sam Hazeldine - C.O.
Sam Reid - Lt. Armitage