"Let me ask you something. If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does he give them opportunities to love each other?"

"(appears at Congress and recites the the Pledge of Allegiance) I pledge allegiance to the flag under the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under me indivisible and liberty and justice for all."

"Tell you what. You build it and I'll fill it. Oh and you might need this. [Holds up a book titled "Ark Building for Dummies"]"

"I now issue a new commandment: "Thou shalt do the dance.""

"(to Evan) Build the ark. And if anybody asks, just say, a flood is coming."

"And he wanted me to wear this robe because he thought it would be funny."

"[With his arms and staff outstretched to the looming Memorial Bridge, as the Ark is fast approaching it.] I command thee halt! Stop! Woah! [Nothing happens] How about a little help here?! [Suddenly the whole right side of the Ark falls dark, as a massive wave four times the size and height of the Ark rises up and crashes down redirecting its path instantly down Capital Mall.]"

"(Joan and the kids have just left him) I know, I know. Everything you do, you do because you love me. (A sprinkler blasts him in the face) Do me a favor; love me less!"

"SSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPP!!!!!"

"(two wolves growl at Long) Don't look now Congressman but the wolves are here. Although I wouldn't worry so much about these wolves but those. (Evan gestures to the angry members of Congress standing behind Long)"

"People, the flood is imminent! (nothing happens) IS IT TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR A LITTLE PRECIPITATION!?"

"[Is using ancient tools to build the ark] Ever heard of Home Depot!?"

"(to Long after the Ark crashes into Congress] Hello Congressman. Mind if I park my boat here?"

"[after the Ark crashes into Congress) We can walk from here."

"[signing off for the last time] I feel like that old Indian in front of all the garbage. So, for the last time, this is Evan Baxter for Eyewitness News. Goodnight."

"Elya Baskin - Anotoly Dobrynin"

"Kevin Conway - General Curtis LeMay"

"Peter White - John McCone"

"Len Cariou - Dean Acheson"

"Michael Fairman - U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson"

"Ed Lauter - General Marshall Carter"

"Henry Strozier - Dean Rusk"

"Bill Smitrovich - General Max Taylor"

"Steven Culp - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy"

"Dylan Baker - Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara"

"Stephanie Romanov - First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy"

"Kevin Costner - Kenny O'Donnell"

"Bruce Greenwood - President John F. Kennedy"

"This is not a blockade. This is language. A new vocabulary, the likes of which the world has never seen! This is President Kennedy communicating with Secretary Khrushchev!"

"[The night prior to the beginning of the U.S. Navy's military "quarantine" of Cuba] You know, last summer, I read a book, The Guns of August. I wish every man on that blockade line had read that book. It's World War I, there's thirteen million killed; it was all because the militaries of both alliances believed they were so highly attuned to one another's movements and dispositions, they could predict one another's intentions, but all their theories were based on the last war. And the world and technology had changed, and those lessons were no longer valid, but it was all they knew, so the orders went out, and couldn't be rescinded. And your man in the field, his family at home; they couldn't even tell you the reasons why their lives were being destroyed. But why couldn't they stop it? What could they have done? Here we are, fifty years later. Think if one of their ships resists the inspection, and we shoot out its rudder, and board, they shoot down one of our planes in response, so we bomb their anti-aircraft sites, and in response to that, they attack Berlin...so we invade Cuba...and they fire their missiles...and we fire ours."

"I am the commander in chief of the United States, and I say when we go to war!"

"Frank Wood - McGeorge Bundy"

"Penelope Ann Miller - Elizabeth Rose"

"Michael Moriarty - Senator Hank Rose"

"Jay O. Sanders - Kyle Craig"

"Anton Yelchin - Dimitri Starodubov"

"Billy Burke - Ben Devine"

"Mika Boorem - Megan Rose"

"Dylan Baker - Ollie McArthur"

"Michael Wincott - Gary Soneji/The Spider"

"Monica Potter - Jezzie Flannigan"

"Morgan Freeman - Alex Cross"

"The game is far from over."

"A tangled web of danger and deceit..."

"Senator Hank Rose: Mr. Cross, you're telling me you haven't a clue! Not one clue! The man walked in the fucking room and ya shot him."

"They say that when I die, the case will die. They say it will be like a book I close. But the book, it will never close..."

"I am living proof, that a mind is a terrible thing."

"Anna Maria Horsford - Vickie"

"War is not healthy for children and other living things. [quoting a popular anti-Vietnam War protest slogan, originally created by poster artist Lorraine Schneider]"

"[Shouting, to Arlene] You can't let Dick control your life!"