“If you tell the government they will take forty percent of it. Forty percent! Do you know how much that is? That's nearly all of it.”

Lewis McGibbon - Anthony

“- Skip: Man, one thing I can't figure out. People be out of work everywhere and the government just be throwing money away!
- Kirby: That's Uncle Sam for you, son. Money to burn.”
Chris Tucker - Skip
Keith David - Kirby

“- Congressman: Now Jim, people in my state keep asking why we're continuing to fund this program now that we've beaten the Russians to the moon.
- Jim Lovell: Imagine if Christopher Columbus had come back from the New World and no one returned in his footsteps.”
Roger Corman - Congressman
Tom Hanks - Jim Lovell

I'll introduce a bill. But if all the angels came dancing down to earth like the Rockettes, even they couldn't get a dime out of this administration for anything with the name "gay" on it.
Dakin Matthews - Congressman Phil Burton

“- Ruth Lanier: How much do I get for the information I gave you on Waxman?
- Richard Chance: No arrest, no money.
- Ruth Lanier: It's my fault he's dead? It took me six months to get next to him. I got expenses, you know.
- Richard Chance: Guess what? Uncle Sam don't give a shit about your expenses. You want bread, fuck a baker.”
Darlanne Fluegel - Ruth Lanier
William Petersen - Richard Chance