“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

“- 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

“For most of my life I made my own rules. You don't do any favors. You don't ask for any. Watch the percentages. But you can know the rules and still do the wrong thing. The only thing I knew for sure was this: Strozzi, Doyle, and every son of a bitch that worked for them... they were all going to be better off dead.”
Bruce Willis - John Smith

“Every lawyer, at least once in every case, feels himself crossing a line that he doesn't really mean to cross. It just happens, and if you cross it enough times it disappears forever. And then you're nothing but another lawyer joke. Just another shark in the dirty water.”
Matt Damon - Rudy Baylor