“Your father was dirty. He was as dirty as they come. Nothing big, just penny-ante stuff. You know, free meals. A place to coop. For a while, he was a bag man for a pad in the South Bronx. The normal stuff. He took home $100, $150 a week. That's all. But hell, what a cop.”
Nick Nolte - Mike Brennan

“Did you know your daddy grew vegetables Raphael? Your daddy was a farmer before he became a po-lice-man.”

Charles Bronson - Mr. Roberts

“- Finnerty: John Cale, why do you want to be in the Secret Service?
- Cale: I can't think of a more important job than protecting the President.”
Maggie Gyllenhaal - Finnerty
Channing Tatum - Cale

“- Jack Traven: Tell me again Harry, why did I take this job?
- Harry: Oh come on, thirty more years of this, you get a tiny pension and a cheap gold watch.
- Jack Traven: Cool.”

Keanu Reeves - Jack Traven
Jeff Daniels - Harry

“- Lyman: Dooley, what is it about me that makes you so passionate?
- Dooley: Well, it's not your looks, Lyman. I guess it's your job.
- Lyman: And knowing your methods of law enforcement, I don't suppose that you have a search warrant?
- Dooley: Dog ate it. You can hang around his tail for an hour.”
Kevin Tighe - Lyman
Jim Belushi - Dooley