"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!"

"Cindy Gibb - Cathy Moore"

"Michael Murphy - Ambassador Thomas Kelly"

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

"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?"

"James Woods - Richard Boyle"

"Will MacMillan - Colonel Bentley Hyde Sr."

"Elpidia Carrillo - María"

"Tony Plana - Major Maximiliano 'Max' Casanova"

"Colby Chester - Jack Morgan- State Department Analyst"

"John Savage - John Cassady"

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

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

"Someone reminded me I once said "Greed is good". Now it seems it's legal. Because everyone is drinking the same Kool-Aid."

"Josh Brolin - Bretton James"

"It's not about the money - it's about the game."

"Michael Douglas - Gordon Gekko"

"Stop telling lies about me and I'll stop telling the truth about you."

"Shia LaBeouf - Jacob "Jake" Moore"

"Carey Mulligan - Winnie Gekko"

"Money is a bitch that never sleeps!"

"Idealism kills every deal."

"I tell you, the government's worse than a wife. They got all the power, they got half the money. Now they're working on getting the other half."

"If it weren't for people who took risks, where would we be in this world?"

"The mother of all evil is speculation."

"They took my life - and when I got out - who's waiting for me? Nobody!"

"Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs? They get slaughtered."

"Charlie Sheen - Bud "Buddy" Fox"

"John Buffalo Mailer - Robby"

"Oliver Stone - Investor"

"Austin Pendleton - Dr. Masters"

"Frank Langella - Louis Zabel"

"Sylvia Miles - Realtor"

"Jason Clarke - New York Fed Chief"

"Eli Wallach - Julius Steinhardt"

"Hey, hey, stay positive, pal. Most people, they lose,they whine and quit. But you got to be there for the turns. Everybody's got good luck, everybody's got bad luck. Don't run when you lose. Don't whine when it hurts. It's like the first grade, Jerry. Nobody likes a crybaby."

"Susan Sarandon - Jake's Mother"

"Vanessa Ferlito - Audrey"

"Payback. Except I'm not in that business anymore - because the one thing I learned in jail is that money is not the prime asset in life. Time is."

"Always remember: others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."

"This is about me. Why can't you understand that, you of all people? It's not the war—it's Nixon! They want to destroy Nixon! And if I expose myself even the slightest bit they'll tear my insides out. Do you want that? Do you want to see that, Buddy? It's not pretty."

"I believe Governor Brown has a heart, even though he believes I do not. I believe he's a good American, even though he feels I am not. I'm proud of the fact that I defended my opponent's patriotism. You gentlemen didn't report it, but I'm proud that I did that. And I would appreciate it for once, gentlemen, if you would just print what I say. For sixteen years, ever since the Hiss case, you've had a lot of fun - a lot of fun. But recognize you have a responsibility, if you're against the candidate, to give him the shaft, but if you do that, at least put one lonely reporter on the campaign who will report what the candidate says now and then. I think, all-in-all, I've given as good as I've taken. But as I leave you I-I want you to know—just think what you're gonna be missing. You won't have Nixon to kick around any more [echoes] - uh, uh, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference. Thank you and good day."

"Buddy, before you join the jubilation at my being beaten again, you should remember: people vote not out of love, but fear. They don't teach that at Sunday School or the Whittier Community Playhouse!"

"[to a portrait of John F. Kennedy] When they look at you, they see who they want to be. They look at me and they see what they are."

"[saying farewell to his staff] There are many fine careers. This country needs good farmers, good businessmen, good plumbers, good carpenters. I remember my old man. I think that they would have called him sort of a, sort of a little man, common man. Well, he didn't consider himself that way. You know what he was? He was a streetcar motorman first. Then he was a farmer, and then he had a lemon ranch. It was the poorest lemon ranch in California, I can assure you. He sold it before they found oil on it. And then he was a grocer. But he was a great man because he did his job, and every job counts, up to the hilt, regardless of what happened. Nobody will ever write a book, probably, about my mother. Well, I guess all of you would say this about your mother. But my mother was a saint. When I think of her two boys dying of tuberculosis, and seeing each of them die, and when they died. Yes, she will have no books written about her. But, she was a saint. Now, however, we look to the future. I remember something, uh, Theodore Roosevelt wrote when his first wife died in his twenties. He thought the light had gone from his life forever. But he went on and he not only became President, but as an ex-President he served his country, always in the arena, tempestuous, strong, sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but he was a man."

"It took me a long time to fall in love with you, Dick. But it doesn't make you happy. You want them to love you. But they never will, Dick. No matter how many elections you win."

"Edward Herrmann - Nelson Rockefeller"

"Tony Goldwyn - Harold Nixon"