“This place looks like pure-D dog shit, don't it? You may not think it, but there's enough explosives here... if you put a little gasoline in the right place, light a match at the wrong time... this dump would go up like a Roman candle. There'd be no way they'd ever find your bodies.”

Rip Torn - Buford Pope

“- Elizabeth Stephens: Paul, did you build an atomic bomb?
- Paul Stephens: Only a little one.”
Jill Eikenberry - Elizabeth Stephens
Christopher Collet - Paul Stephens

“I never thought I'd say this to anybody, but I got to go get the atomic bomb out of the car.”

Christopher Collet - Paul Stephens

“Anybody want to make a bet?”

John Lithgow - John Mathewson

“- Giles Prentice: A Broken what?
- Secretary of Defense Baird: Broken Arrow. It's a Class 4 Strategic Theatre Emergency. It's what we call it when we lose a nuclear weapon.
- Giles Prentice: I don't know what's scarier, losing nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it.”
Frank Whaley - Giles Prentice
Kurtwood Smith - Secretary of Defense Baird