“You're in Mississippi now - land of the secrets. There are bodies buried everywhere.”
Lela Rochon - Nora Stark

“- Woman in refugee camp: Fifty thousand Nicaraguans have died and now a Yankee. Perhaps now America will be outraged at what has happened here.
- Claire: Perhaps they will.
- Woman in refugee camp: Maybe we should have killed an American journalist fifty years ago.”
Luisa Sánchez M. - Woman in refugee camp
Joanna Cassidy - Claire

“- Annie: Who would want to kill Mr. Warbucks?
- Grace Farrell: The Bolsheviks, dear. He's living proof that the American system really works and the Bolsheviks don't want anyone to know about that.”

Aileen Quinn - Annie
Ann Reinking - Grace Farrell

“It pays to be a killer in this country.”
Ritchie Coster - News Stand Vendor

“- Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair: Man, if we get outta this thing, I want you to come to the States. I'll show you some stuff that you'll never believe.
- Col. Vardovsky: No way, my friend. I'm told in the States they shoot Communists in the streets.
- Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair: Hell, man. In Detroit, my hometown, they shoot everybody in the streets!”
Louis Gossett Jr. - Charles "Chappy" Sinclair