"Some say concentrated power leads to abuse, but I believe that if an institution has a solid foundation it can survive the narrow aspirations of the people it employs."

"Being a soldier isn't just following orders, it's following those orders in the service of a higher cause. When that cause is betrayed, we're not soldiers anymore, just pieces on a chess board dying for the wrong reason."

"In my day, international peacekeepers were citizens first and soldiers second. You can forget about that extra ammo. I'm only going to give you the multitools; I think you should concentrate more on mission objectives and less on the enemy body count."

"Try to remember: people have rights. Don't just shoot everything that moves."

"A pistol is more than adequate. Hell, I dispatched a whole platoon one time with a pocket knife."

"I guess it's not surprising to find a few crooks in a place protected by security procedures. The shadow of secrecy; it protects indiscriminately."

"Direct intervention is always part of the game. In my day, we were just more civilized about it."

"My unit killed a bunch of Afghans one time, but we weren't proud of it. In fact, our liaison at the UN went to the funeral."

"Let's get one thing straight: we've got our share of crooked bureaucrats -- fact -- but this is still UNATCO, and by and large the people in this building are twenty-four carat gold."

"There's a time and a place for security, but the legislature has to stay vigilant, or there will be abuses."

"[if the player attacks him once] Someone should knock you upside the head a few times, punk. Dismissed."

"Area 51. You heard of it, right?"

"Listen to your brother, JC. Respect his experience. Let's leave it at that."

"What am I? A bum? You think I'm gonna drink anything you find lying around?"

"One thing the Air Force never understood: I'm dependable. No matter what, I'm dependable."

"Oh my God, JC! A bomb!"

"Once the bug bites, you've already lost the patient."

"One must admire a man who can keep a secret, because he has value. What you know more than others makes money, and gives you a measure of power."

"You can't run, Denton. Even if you escape, your killswitch is counting down. You'll be dead in twenty-three hours. Another fifty billion dollars down the drain."

"You take another step forward and here I am again, like your own reflection repeated in a hall of mirrors."

"You will confess, by the way. I don't like to dirty my hands with that sort of thing, but you will confess."

"What an expensive mistake you turned out to be. I've ordered the troops to kill you, because quite frankly I don't have the patience to wait for one of those damn killswitches to work."

"I'm the more advanced model, Denton. It's time for you to retire."

"Remember that NSF prisoner I was interrogating back on Liberty Island? Guess you were bitten by the same bug. There's only one cure, you know, once you've caught the disease..."

"All in all, you weren't a bad experiment. You will be the last prototype we have to discard."

"You can't take me, JC. I've seen your specs."

"The conspiracy is about to begin again, JC, between you and me. Nicolette was wise to bring us together, wise like her mother. The most effective partnerships like Beth's and mine arise from mutual necessity."

"I once knelt in this chapel for communion, with two Rockefellers and a Rothschild. Since the time of the Crusades every leader in finance has prayed for the continued stability of Templar banks, founded on gold."

"You see the need for global organization. Someone has to bring these disparate groups together."

"Know what? Only that the long night is over. The crown of government is tarnished, but that will fade in time. The riots, a fever dream; the plague, a horrible nightmare; and like everything else that's happened such things will only be dimly remembered upon waking to their normal lives. In the end, all sins are forgiven. Even yours."

"You and me, JC. We'll rule the world in secret, with an invisible hand, the way the Illuminati have always ruled."

"There's such a thing as a compassionate conspiracy. We don't need Page's commandos, troopers, crude inventions..."

"We are the Invisible Hand. We are the Illuminati. We come before and after. We are forever. And eventually... eventually we will lead them into the day."

"You can't fight ideas with bullets."

"The more of us you kill, the more secessionism lives on in the hearts of the people."

"Ever wonder why big car corporations pay two percent tax and the guys on the assembly line pay forty?"

"Corporations are so big, you don't even know who you're working for. That's terror. Terror built into the system."

"Do you ever ask what it's all for? The surveillance, the police, the shoot-on-sight laws? Is that freedom?"

"UNATCO teaches teenagers to fight when it still seems like a game, and look at you! You're a killing machine!"

"Who's the scary one, huh? Me or you?"

"Silhouette is not a terrorist group. Our attacks are symbolic and intended to influence the public."

"It's just so fitting that the American Government would destroy the gift of freedom we gave your country 200 years ago and then try to blame it on us."

"When government surveillance and intimidation is called "freedom from terrorism" or "liberation from crime", freedom and liberty have become words without meanings."

"Culture by definition a shared territory of meaning, inspires conflicts far more destructive than any other dispute over territory on the Earth's surface."

"My vision is augmented."

"Bet you didn't know your mom and dad tried to protest when we put you in training. They loved their little boy, JC, and that's why they're dead. I'm sending up the man who did the job."

"You were just a prototype, Denton, a prototype for me."

"No, I wanted orange! It gave me lemon-lime"

"I am the top agent at UNATCO. It is different now. Mr. Simons said if I defeat you I can have any upgrades I want. That is a gentlemen's agreement."

"No, I cannot forgive! No... not the killing of Agent Navarre! I will follow you - Denton, I will get you!"