“- Senator Jasper Irving: Through precise military action, we will take the essential first step.
- Janine Roth: First step? But what have we been doing for the past six years, Senator? World War II took less than five.”
Tom Cruise - Senator Jasper Irving
Meryl Streep - Janine Roth

“- Sgt. Frank Tree: You know, this year wasn't the big year of the war, '41. I think the really big year is going to be 1942.
- Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell: It's gonna be a long war.”
Dan Aykroyd - Sgt. Frank Tree
Robert Stack - Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell

“It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.”
Joe Dante

“- Wayne Carter: Spring is the time for love.
- Flower Belle Lee: What's the matter with the rest of the year?”
Dick Foran - Wayne Carter
Mae West - Flower Belle Lee

“- Lord Horatio Nelson: Last of 1799; eight bells for the old year, and eight for the new. Happy New Year, darling.
- Emma Lady Hamilton: Happy New Year.
- Lord Horatio Nelson: The dawn of a new century.
- Emma Lady Hamilton: 1800. How strange it sounds.”

Laurence Olivier - Lord Horatio Nelson
Vivien Leigh - Emma Lady Hamilton