“- Alison McAndrews: Both of the candidates you're running against are happily married, with kids. You're divorced and have no children. So how are you gonna come off as family-friendly?
- Tom Dobbs: Well, I could hold my mother's ashes.”
Karen Hines - Alison McAndrews
Robin Williams - Tom Dobbs

“He married for love. Love. That's why he did everything. That's why he went into politics. It seems we weren't enough, he wanted all the voters to love him too.”

Joseph Cotten - Jedediah Leland

“- Emily Monroe Norton Kane: Charles, people will think...
- Kane: What I tell them to think.”
Ruth Warrick - Emily Monroe Norton Kane
Orson Welles - Kane

“- Kane: It's obvious the people prefer Jim Gettys to me.
- Jedediah Leland: You talk about the people as though you owned them, as though they belong to you. As long as I can remember, you've talked about giving the people their rights, as if you can make them a present of liberty, as a reward for services rendered.”
Orson Welles - Kane
Joseph Cotten - Jedediah Leland

“In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished.”

Hugo Weaving - V