“- Romero: You touch me, he dies. If you're not in the air in thirty seconds, he dies. You come back in, he dies. Twenty seconds.
- Hauk: I'm ready to talk.
- Romero: Nineteen. Eighteen.
- Hauk: What do you want?
- Romero: Seventeen. Sixteen.
- Hauk: Let's go. Let's go!”

Frank Doubleday - Romero
Lee Van Cleef - Hauk

“- Eleanor Roosevelt: Harry, the President is dead.
- Harry S. Truman: Mrs. Roosevelt, is there anything I can do for you?
- Eleanor Roosevelt: Oh! Is there anything we can do for you? You are the one in trouble now.”
Marian Seldes - Eleanor Roosevelt
Gary Sinise - Harry S. Truman

“- Danny: I did a real stupid thing that inadvertently led to the death of a United States president, I'm feeling pretty lousy about it.
- Frank Stockburn: Well son, look at my eyes... Shit happens!”
Luke Wilson - Danny
Nick Nolte - Frank Stockburn

“- Kane: He's still a well-meaning fathead who's letting a pack of high-pressure crooks run his administration. This whole oil scandal...
- Emily Monroe Norton Kane: He happens to be the President, Charles, not you.
- Kane: That's a mistake that will be corrected one of these days.”
Orson Welles - Kane
Ruth Warrick - Emily Monroe Norton Kane

“The President has nothing further to communicate. Good day, sir.”

Alexander Knox - Woodrow Wilson