“- Senator Jasper Irving: Through precise military action, we will take the essential first step.
- Janine Roth: First step? But what have we been doing for the past six years, Senator? World War II took less than five.”
Tom Cruise - Senator Jasper Irving
Meryl Streep - Janine Roth

“- Sgt. FrankTree: You know, this year wasn't the big year of the war, '41. I think the really big year is going to be 1942.
- Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell: It's gonna be a long war.”
Dan Aykroyd - Sgt. Frank Tree
Robert Stack - Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell

“It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.”
Joe Dante

“- Bernadine Harris: I give you eleven fucking years of my life and you're telling me you're leaving me for a white woman?
- John Harris, Sr.: Would it help if she was black?
- Bernadine Harris: No. It would help if you were black.”
Angela Bassett - Bernadine Harris
Michael Beach - John Harris, Sr.

“- Ashburn: I was actually married for six-some years.
- Mullins: Was he a hearing man?”
Sandra Bullock - Ashburn
Melissa McCarthy - Mullins