“- Sen. Jackson McCanles: So that's where you stand!
- Jesse McCanles: I think I'd rather be on the side of the victims than of the murderers.”
Lionel Barrymore - Sen. Jackson McCanles
Joseph Cotten - Jesse McCanles

“Idealism kills every deal.”
Michael Douglas - Gordon Gekko

He's been listening to speeches, and reading pamphlets about Nazi Germany and believing them. Unfortunately, there are thousands like him in America. Half-witted, hysterical crackpots who go "Hitler-happy" from overindulgence in propaganda that makes them believe that they're supermen.
Edward G. Robinson - Edward 'Ed' Renard

“- Coed: Mr. X, I've read some of your speeches and I honestly believe a lot of what you say has truth to it. I have a good heart. I'm a good person despite my whiteness. What can the good white people like myself, who are not prejudiced, or racist, what can we do to help the cause?
- Malcolm X: Nothing.”
Denzel Washington - Malcolm X

“- David Drumlin: I wish the world was a place where fair was the bottom line, where the kind of idealism you showed at the hearing was rewarded, not taken advantage of. Unfortunately, we don't live in that world.
- Ellie Arroway: Funny, I've always believed that the world is what we make of it.”
Tom Skerritt - David Drumlin
Jodie Foster - Eleanor Arroway