"(Before Jenova) You should have ruled this planet. You were stronger, smarter. But then they came, those inferior dullards...They came and took this planet away from you. But don't be sad, Mother. I am with you now. (Rips away the casing to reveal Jenova) We meet at last...Mother."

"...My sadness? What do I have to be sad about? I am the chosen one. I have been chosen to be the leader of this Planet. I have orders to take this planet back from you stupid people for the Cetra. What am I supposed to be sad about?"

"Only death awaits you all, but do not fear. For it is through death that a new spirit energy is born. Soon, you will live again as a part of me."

"Melding with the Planet... I will cease to exist as I am now... Only to be reborn as a 'God' to rule over every soul."

"What are you saying? Are you trying to tell me you have feelings too?"

"You are just a puppet... You have no heart... and cannot feel any pain... How can there be any meaning in the memory of such a being? What I have shown you is reality. What you remember, that is the illusion."

"The knowledge and wisdom of the Ancients is held in the materia. Anyone with this knowledge can freely use the powers of the land and the Planet. That knowledge interacts between ourselves and the Planet, calling up magic."

"How does it feel? It's your first time in your hometown in a long time right? So how does it feel? I wouldn't know because I don't have a hometown."

"Ha, ha, ha. Think, Cloud? ..."Cloud"? Ha, ha, ha. Oh, excuse me. You never had a name..."

"Don't...push...your luck..."

"...over... It's over... ...everything... Everyone...everything... It's all over... Now everything will begin with me!!"

"Forgive me for asking, but I can't be expected to remember each person's name. Unless you become another Sephiroth. Yes, Sephiroth... He was brilliant. Perhaps too brilliant..."

"If you'll excuse me, I am a very busy man. However, I have arranged for a playmate for you all. His name is Airbuster. Our Weapons Development department created him. I am sure the data he will extract from your dead bodies will be quite useful."

"These days, all it takes for your dreams to come true is money and power."

"Citizens, unite! Come to the light, Mako energy. Power is truth. Shinra is the future. Real happiness can be found in obedience to the company."

"And such a waste of good fireworks, just to get rid of vermin like you..."

"...You are beginning to bore me. I'm a very busy man, so if you'll excuse me...I have a dinner I must attend to."

"We'll destroy Sector 7 and report that AVALANCHE did it. Then we'll send in the rescue operation care of Shinra, Inc. ...Heh, heh, heh... This is perfect."

"What a crew."

"With things looking like this, you better be ready for pay cuts..."

"That's right. I'll let you hear my new appointment speech. ...My old man tried to control the world with money. It seems to have been working. The population thought that Shinra would protect them. Work at Shinra, get your pay. If a terrorist attacks, the Shinra army will help you. It looks perfect on the outside. But, I do things differently. I'll control the world with fear. It takes too much to do it like my old man. A little fear will control the minds of the common people. There's no reason to waste money on them."

"People are ignorant. They'll feel better as long as someone is punished."

"Whatever I say now is too little, too late. We must evacuate."

"Things are different than when father was in charge."

"Is that all you can do...? Give one word answers and apologize for everything? Do something. I'll be expecting results."

"(To President Shinra) These sewer rats appear to call themselves "AVALANCHE", sir."

"(To Reeve) The stench of the director's cowardice fills the room yet again."

"The 'peace preservation' force will defeat the enemy."

"GYA HA HA!!!"

"Mayor? He just sits in this building all day feeding his face! You still call that a Mayor? Now if you'll excuse me sir!"

"I'm ashamed of myself."

"The President's sure done it this time! If we can only defeat Sephiroth, the idea that Meteor will also disappear is based on different objectives!"

"Don't be so ludicrous! I don't recall you giving me any orders! The Peace Preservation will give their best effort to make the enemy retreat! Because of them, I... I...!"

"The President is dead! Now I'm doing things my way! Ghaa haah hah hah!"

"With the chaos resulting from the meteor reports, we desperately need to rally public support... it's better that we punish somebody... anybody."

"KYA HA HA!!!"

"But, even if we make the perfect weapon, could that stupid Heidegger even use it?"

"...Hmph! This isn't any good either. You only get junky materia from junky reactors. This reactor's a failure. What I'm looking for is big, large, huge materia. You seen any?"

"God, I can't stand it!"

"(After seeing footage of Cloud's fight with a Sephiroth clone) Very, very good. And thus is the hypothesis proven correct I can only hope you would continue, NOT disappoint."

"There are so many frivolous things in this world."

"Go beyond the powers of science... Before your presence, science is powerless... I hate it, but I'll concede to it. Just... let me see it."

"I offered the woman with my child to Professor Gast's Jenova project. When Sephiroth was still in her womb, we infused him with Jenova's cells..."

"It should be obvious, I'm getting a tan."