"And when I take over your muthafuckin' job, know what I'm gonna do baby? Gonna get on my private jet and wing up to Palm Springs. Hang out with Eddie Knuckles, and hit a few golfballs with President Ford and Nixon and them muthafuckas."

"[just before the union break-in] Maybe we should've robbed a liquor store like everybody else."

"Man, flick my Bic!"

"Credit's the only thing you can get free from the company. Got a house, fridge, dishwasher, washer-dryer, TV, stereo, motorcycle, car..."buy this shit, buy that shit." All you got's a buncha shit."

"The company builds cars and destroys men"

"Whatever became of the "American Dream"?"

"Howard Hesseman - Howard"

"Kenneth Tobey - Deputy Mike"

"Susan Foster - Cindy"

"Susan Sosa - Sunshine"

"Bert Freed - Mr. Stuart Posner"

"Lynn Baker - Sarah"

"Stan Rice - Martin"

"Teresa Kelly - Carol"

"David Roya - Bernard Posner"

"Julie Webb - Barbara"

"John McClure - Dinosaur"

"Debbie Schock - Kit"

"You've got due process, Mother's Day, supermarkets, the FBI, Medicare, air conditioning, AT&T, country clubs, Congress, a 2-car garage, state troopers, the Constitution, color television and democracy. They've got BILLY JACK."

"Tom Laughlin - Billy Jack"

"Just a person who protects children and other living things."

"Delores Taylor - Jean Roberts"

"Martin, do you know what mental toughness is? Well, mental toughness is the ability to accept the fact that you're human and that you're going to make mistakes - lots of 'em - all your life. And some of them are gonna hurt people that you love very badly. But you have the guts to accept the fact that you ain't perfect. And you don't let your mistakes crush you and keep you from doing the very best that you can."

"So easy for you to die dramatically! It's a hell of a lot tougher for those of us who have to keep on trying!"

"Clark Howat - Sheriff Cole"

"When you need him, he's always there!"

"It's funny, isn't it? Only the white man wants everything put in writing. And only then so he can use it against you in court. You know, among the Indians a promise is good enough."

"Victor Izay - Doctor"

"Lenny Baker - William Moss"

"David Clennon - Toombs"

"Robert Lydiard - O'Connor"

"Regina Baff - Asheley Brooks"

"Craig Richard Nelson - Willis Bell"

"Timothy Bottoms - James T. Hart"

"Lindsay Wagner - Susan Fields"

"They finally got you, Hart, they sucked all that Midwestern charm right out of you. Look, he's got you scared to death. You're going to pass, because you're the kind the law school wants."

"John Houseman - Charles W. Kingsfield Jr."

"When I was in college, I had three roommates. One was genius, and one was crazy, and one was inconsequential, kept to himself. It was genius who told me about Kingsfield; first guy to tell me all about Kingsfield. He read an article by him in Life or Time or something called "Contracts in Our Daily Lives". Make a long story short, genius took the law school admissions test, but didn't score high enough to get into Harvard. Genius."

"The study of law is something new and unfamiliar to most of you — unlike any other schooling you have ever known before... You teach yourselves the law, but I train your minds. You come in here with a skull full of mush; you leave thinking like a lawyer."

"Graham Beckel - Franklin Ford III"

"I know there's a lot of things to say, but it really isn't worth saying them, so please just get out."

"James Naughton - Kevin Brooks"

"Edward Herrmann - Thomas Craig Anderson"

"Steve Kanaly - Sally's Husband"

"Barbara Hale - Mrs. Barlow"

"Joe Spinell - Psychologist"

"Fran Ryan - Lucy"

"Darrell Fetty - Waxer"

"Gerry Lopez - Himself"