"Rome is burning, son. And the problem is not with the people that started this; they're past irredeemable. The problem is with us, all of us, who do nothing. Who just fiddle. Who try to maneuver around the edges of the flame. And I'll tell you something - there are people out there, day to day, who are fighting to make things better."

"Robert Redford - Professor Stephen Malley"

"The decisions you make now, bud, can't be changed but with years and years of hard work to redo it... And in those years you become something different. Everybody does as the time passes. You get married, you get into debt... But you're never gonna be the same person you are right now. And promise and potential... It's very fickle, and it just might not be there anymore."

"Meryl Streep - Janine Roth"

"Tom Cruise - Senator Jasper Irving (R-IL)"

"I'm still here, Todd, because I'm a selfish man. I'm selfish for the rare times when you know you have someone in your class that has rare gifts to go on and do big things on a big scale. I realized my gifts aren't my theories but my ability to recognize great potential in others and maybe give them a little shove when they need it."

"Michael Peña - Ernest Rodriguez"

"We're fighting a brand of evil that thinks the last 1,300 years of human progress is heresy punishable by violent death."

"You're good with words, Todd. But you know what would make them even better? If they had a heartbeat."

"Colby Chester - Jack Morgan- State Department Analyst"

"Will MacMillan - Colonel Bentley Hyde Sr."

"John Savage - John Cassady"

"Elpidia Carrillo - María"

"Michael Murphy - Ambassador Thomas Kelly"

"Cindy Gibb - Cathy Moore"

"Jim Belushi - Doctor Rock"

"Tony Plana - Major Maximiliano 'Max' Casanova"

"Is that why you're here, Colonel? Some kind of post-Vietnam experience like you need a rerun or something? You pour a hundred twenty million bucks into this place, you turn it into a military zone, so what, so you can have chopper parades in the sky?"

"You let them close down the universities, you let them wipe out the best minds in the countries, you let them kill whoever they want, you let them wipe out the Catholic Church, you let them do it all because they aren't Commies! And that, Colonel, is bull shit!"

"Left-wing, Colonel? Eh, maybe. But I'm not a Communist. And you guys never seem to be able to tell the difference!"

"You gotta get close to get the truth. You get too close, you die."

"[to his captors] I hope you all get anal herpes!"

"[about the government in El Salvador] A pathological killer on the right, God-knows-what on the left, and a gutless middle."

"James Woods - Richard Boyle"

"Steve Guttenberg - Barry Kohler"

"Uta Hagen - Frieda Maloney"

"Denholm Elliott - Sidney Beynon"

"James Mason - Eduard Seibert"

"Rosemary Harris - Frau Doring"

"Lilli Palmer - Esther Lieberman"

"John Dehner - Henry Wheelock"

"Mrs. Doring: [about Mengele] Would you like me to tell you who really killed him? God. To set free a stupid little farm girl after twenty-two years of unhappiness. Do Nazis answer prayers Herr Lieberman? No, that is God's business and I have thanked Him every night since He pushed Emil under that car. He could have done it sooner, but I thank Him anyway."

"Gregory Peck - Dr. Josef Mengele"

"He betrayed me, he betrayed you, he betrayed the Aryan race!"

"You know, there was a nurse here, an angel of mercy called Miss Hannah, who actually gives me cigarettes. You know what she said to me the other day? She said, "Mr. Lieberman, if you can escape Buchenwald, and you can escape those bullets, then a few cigarettes will not hurt you." (burns the list of Mengele's clones) Isn't that a nice thing to say?"

"John Rubinstein - David Bennett"

"Do you know what I saw on the television in my motel room at one o'clock this morning? Films of Hitler! They are showing films about the war! The movement! People are fascinated! The time is ripe! Adolf Hitler is alive! [Takes photo album and places it on his lap] This album is full of pictures of him. Bobby Wheelock and ninety-three other boys are exact genetic duplicates of him, bred entirely from his cells. He allowed me to take half a liter of his blood and a cutting of skin from his ribs. [laughs] We were in a Biblical frame of mind on the twenty-third of May 1943, at the Berghof. He had denied himself children because he knew that no son could flourish in the shadow of so godlike a father! But when he heard what was theoretically possible, that I could create one day not his son, not even a carbon-copy but another original, he was thrilled by the idea! The right Hitler for the right future! A Hitler tailor-made for the 1980s, the 1990s, 2000!"

"Laurence Olivier - Ezra Lieberman"

"[about Mengele] He was the chief doctor of Auschwitz, who killed 2.5 million people, experimented with children - Jewish and non-Jewish - using twins mostly, injecting blue dyes into their eyes to make them acceptable Aryans... amputating limbs and organs from thousands without anesthetics."

"You're not a guard now, madame! You are a prisoner! I may leave here today empty handed. But you... are not going anywhere."

"Not Mozart. Not Picasso. Not a genius who would enrich the world. But a lonely little boy with a domineering father, a customs officer who was 52 when he was born. And an affectionate doting mother who was 29. The father died when he was 65 when the boy was nearly 14... Adolf Hitler."

"Michael Gough as Mr. Harrington"

"Joachim Hansen as Fassler"

"Sky du Mont as Hessen"

"Anne Meara - Mrs. Curry"

"Bruno Ganz as Dr. Bruckner"

"Wolfgang Preiss as Lofquist"

"David Hurst as Strasser"

"Walter Gotell as Mundt"