“I am the police! You have to do what I say!”
Samuel L. Jackson - Abel Turner

“- Jesse Stone: I'm a cop. I've been a cop for a long time. I'm good at it. I know how to do this. You don't.
- Jim Burns: Damn it, we can fire you.
- Jesse Stone: You can. But you can't tell me what to do.”

Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone
John Dunsworth - Jim Burns

“There's only one thing that gets orders and gives orders. And this is it. That's how I got the South Side for you, and that's how I'm gonna get the North Side for you. It's a typewriter. I'm gonna write my name all over this town with it, in big letters!”

Paul Muni - Tony

“Release the secret weapon!”
Madeline Kahn - Gussie Mausheimer

“- Det. Billy Rosewood: Police! You're all under arrest!
[armed thugs answer with a long hail of machine gun fire]
- Sgt. Taggart: You do that again, I'll shoot you myself!”
Judge Reinhold - Det. Billy Rosewood
John Ashton - Sgt. Taggart