“Let me give you a piece of advice here, Beck. You're a big city cop. If I was in the big city I'd listen to you. But this ain't the big city, this is Cottonwood, population twenty two thirty one. I'm the chief of police. This is my town, my territory. I'll make it real simple, nobody is gonna fuck with me here.”
Brad Sullivan - Chief Hillard

“- Det. Barzak: Freeze! Police! Freeze! I don't know why I tell 'em to freeze - they never freeze.
- Det. Hazeltine: He should've froze.
- Det. Barzak: Well, it's not like we didn't tell him, man.”

Robert Carradine - Det. Barzak
Billy Dee Williams - Det. Hazeltine

- Albrecht: I am the police and I say "Don't move", Snow White. You move, you're dead.
- Eric Draven: And I say "I'm dead", and I move.
Ernie Hudson - Albrecht
Brandon Lee - Eric

“- Eduardo Ruiz: This is coercion.
- Montel Gordon: Coercion. That's a pretty big word for a fisherman.
- Ray Castro: Big-ass word.
- Eduardo Ruiz: Oh, yeah? I know another big word: immunity.”
Miguel Ferrer - Eduardo Ruiz
Don Cheadle - Montel Gordon

They say in Latin, "In vino veritas". Wine tells the truth. Use this to write down the addresses of those bastards who killed my captains. And not where they were last week but where they are now, where they are this minute, and better yet, where they are going to be tomorrow. You know where they are going to be tomorrow, right?

Tomas Milian - General Arturo Salazar