“- Winifred Ames: Why Albania?
- Conrad Brean: Why not?
- Winifred Ames: What have they done to us?
- Conrad Brean: What have they done for us? What do you know about them?
- Winifred Ames: Nothing.
- Conrad Brean: See? They keep to themselves. Shifty. Untrustable.”
Anne Heche - Winifred Ames
Robert De Niro - Conrad Brean

“- John F. Kennedy: Well, who the hell authorized this missile test?
- Robert F. Kennedy: Who do you think? God knows what this is gonna communicate to the Soviets!
- Kenny O'Donnell: Communicate with the Soviets? We can't communicate with the Pentagon and it's just across the goddamn river!”
Bruce Greenwood - John F. Kennedy
Steven Culp - Robert F. Kennedy
Kevin Costner - Kenny O'Donnell

“Borneo. For most of you, Borneo doesn't exist. An imaginary name on a map, like Tibet or Tierra del Fuego. The ends of the earth. But I know the island exists. You see, I was there near the end of the second world war. My war. My youth. I was a botanist before. I've been a botanist ever since.”

Nigel Havers - Botanist

“It was there, in the war-torn country side amidst the fighting between government troops and the Khmer Rouge guerrillas, that I met my guide and interpreter, Dith Pran, a man who was to change my life in a country I grew to love and pity.”

Sam Waterston - Sydney Schanberg

“War is a scourge, but so is slavery. It is the systematic coercion of one group of men over another. It has been around since the book of Genesis. It exists in every corner of the world, but that is no excuse for us to tolerate it here when we find it right infront of our very eyes in our own country.”
Jeff Daniels - Lt. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain