"You know how much the guys in the outfit hated me. Well, not as much as I hated them, of course."

"Twelve days of Christmas! One day of Christmas is loathsome enough!"

"My mother, Ben, is a terrible woman. A terrible, terrible woman... You know, Ben, it's a terrible thing to hate your …"

"[Of his mother, Mrs. Iselin] She won, of course. She always does. I could never beat her. I still can't... I'm not lo…"

"We flew to Maryland last night. We got married. We just got back...There we were, the Queen of Diamonds and me lookin…"

"Have you noticed that the human race is divided into two distinct, irreconciliable groups? Those who walk into rooms …"

"[Of Sen. Iselin] I'm gonna beat that vile, slandering, son-of-a-numbskull to a bloody pulp."

"[To Ben, after killing his mother and Senator Iselin] You couldn't have stopped them, the army couldn't have stopped …"

"Intelligence officer. Stupidity officer is more like it. Pentagon wants to open a Stupidity Division, they know who t…"

"You just cannot believe, Ben, how loveable the whole damn thing was. All summer long, we were together. I was loveabl…"