“- Doris: You have no values. Your whole life, it's nihilism, it's cynicism, it's sarcasm and your orgasm.
- Harry Block: You know, in France I could run on that slogan and win.”
Caroline Aaron - Doris
Woody Allen - Harry Block

“- Joseph Palmi: Let me ask you something... we Italians, we got our families, and we got the church; the Irish, they have the homeland, Jews their tradition; even the niggers, they got their music. What about your people, Mr. Wilson, what do you have?
- Edward Wilson: The United States of America. The rest of you are just visiting.”
Joe Pesci - Joseph Palmi
Matt Damon - Edward Wilson

“- Williamson: The South Vietnamese want to establish a country with values similar to our own. I think we ought to help.
- Shipboard Journalist: And what values are those?
- Williamson: Freedom, the right to think for yourself, follow your own faith - you know, individual freedom.”
Michael Moriarty - Williamson
D. Paul Thomas - Shipboard Journalist

“- Philindros: Mr. Hale, we only try to do what's right.
- Patrick Hale: Even when it's wrong?
- Philindros: If it's good for America, it can't be wrong. Right?”
G.D. Spradlin - Philindros
Sir Sean Connery - Patrick Hale
George Grizzard - President Lockwood

“To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.”
Anton Rodgers - Inspector Andre