“- 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

“- 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

“When I saw Bobby lying there on the floor, arms stretched out, his eyes staring... I knew then I'd be President. His death paved the way, didn't it? Vietnam, the Kennedys, cleared a path through the wilderness just for me. Over the bodies. Four bodies.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“- 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

“- Jeremy Grey: How many times you gonna do this shit? Rule #32: you don't commit to a relative unless you're absolutely positive they have a pulse.
- John Beckwith: Rule #16: give me an up-to-date family tree. That was your mistake. You made me look like an idiot.”

Vince Vaughn - Jeremy Grey
Owen Wilson - John Beckwith