Americans, all you care about is your own damn pilots! What happens when the fighting starts again? Will America recommit its forces to stop a major war? No, you don't have any control over that little detail, do you? You might have helped save your man today, Reigart, and I emphasize "might", but you risk the lives of thousands tomorrow.
Joaquim de Almeida - Piquet

“- 1st Lieutenant Steve Phelps: That's not the correct procedure...
- Captain Jerry Lawson: Screw the procedure, I want somebody on the goddamn phone before I kill 20 million people!”
Michael Madsen - Steve
John Spencer - Jerry

“Once again, the L.A.P.D. is asking Los Angelenos not to fire their guns at the visitor spacecraft. You may inadvertently trigger an interstellar war.”
Gary W. Cruz - Video Newscaster

“- Bruno Sauer: I can't help it. I don't dare to risk anything. My home, my family, you. I'm very much in love with you, Hedy.
- Mrs. Sauer: You've chosen the wrong way to keep me. I'd risk all this, all of it. It's no use to me now, because I've lost my respect for you. It's a shame. It shouldn't have happened.”

George Macready - Bruno Sauer
Katherine Locke - Mrs. Sauer

“Shadow and Sassy had risked their lives for me. I never knew I'd have friends like that; the feeling was all very new to me... I liked it.”

Michael J. Fox - Chance