"The Ancients will lead us to a land of supreme happiness. Aeris will be able to bring happiness to all those in the slums. That is why Shinra would like Aeris' cooperation..."

"Hey-hey? Have we met before? Hey-hey! Is the tea ready yet? With plenty of sugar and honey. Oh yeah, and don't forget the lard too."

"Don't say 'fat'! Hey-hey! Tea! Can I have some coffee too? With lotsa sugar and honey and... oh yeah, don't forget the lard!"

"Oh dear. Oh-oh dear. A man of my fine retained taste, running out of butter."

"Would you like to be my guinea pig? Oh, now what? Are you going to draw your sword?"

"It should be obvious, I'm getting a tan."

"I offered the woman with my child to Professor Gast's Jenova project. When Sephiroth was still in her womb, we infused him with Jenova's cells..."

"Go beyond the powers of science... Before your presence, science is powerless... I hate it, but I'll concede to it. Just... let me see it."

"There are so many frivolous things in this world."

"(After seeing footage of Cloud's fight with a Sephiroth clone) Very, very good. And thus is the hypothesis proven correct I can only hope you would continue, NOT disappoint."

"God, I can't stand it!"

"...Hmph! This isn't any good either. You only get junky materia from junky reactors. This reactor's a failure. What I'm looking for is big, large, huge materia. You seen any?"

"But, even if we make the perfect weapon, could that stupid Heidegger even use it?"

"KYA HA HA!!!"

"With the chaos resulting from the meteor reports, we desperately need to rally public support... it's better that we punish somebody... anybody."

"The President is dead! Now I'm doing things my way! Ghaa haah hah hah!"

"Don't be so ludicrous! I don't recall you giving me any orders! The Peace Preservation will give their best effort to make the enemy retreat! Because of them, I... I...!"

"The President's sure done it this time! If we can only defeat Sephiroth, the idea that Meteor will also disappear is based on different objectives!"

"I'm ashamed of myself."

"Mayor? He just sits in this building all day feeding his face! You still call that a Mayor? Now if you'll excuse me sir!"

"GYA HA HA!!!"

"The 'peace preservation' force will defeat the enemy."

"(To Reeve) The stench of the director's cowardice fills the room yet again."

"(To President Shinra) These sewer rats appear to call themselves "AVALANCHE", sir."

"Is that all you can do...? Give one word answers and apologize for everything? Do something. I'll be expecting results."

"Things are different than when father was in charge."

"Whatever I say now is too little, too late. We must evacuate."

"People are ignorant. They'll feel better as long as someone is punished."

"That's right. I'll let you hear my new appointment speech. ...My old man tried to control the world with money. It seems to have been working. The population thought that Shinra would protect them. Work at Shinra, get your pay. If a terrorist attacks, the Shinra army will help you. It looks perfect on the outside. But, I do things differently. I'll control the world with fear. It takes too much to do it like my old man. A little fear will control the minds of the common people. There's no reason to waste money on them."

"With things looking like this, you better be ready for pay cuts..."

"What a crew."

"We'll destroy Sector 7 and report that AVALANCHE did it. Then we'll send in the rescue operation care of Shinra, Inc. ...Heh, heh, heh... This is perfect."

"...You are beginning to bore me. I'm a very busy man, so if you'll excuse me...I have a dinner I must attend to."

"And such a waste of good fireworks, just to get rid of vermin like you..."

"Citizens, unite! Come to the light, Mako energy. Power is truth. Shinra is the future. Real happiness can be found in obedience to the company."

"These days, all it takes for your dreams to come true is money and power."

"If you'll excuse me, I am a very busy man. However, I have arranged for a playmate for you all. His name is Airbuster. Our Weapons Development department created him. I am sure the data he will extract from your dead bodies will be quite useful."

"Forgive me for asking, but I can't be expected to remember each person's name. Unless you become another Sephiroth. Yes, Sephiroth... He was brilliant. Perhaps too brilliant..."

"...over... It's over... ...everything... Everyone...everything... It's all over... Now everything will begin with me!!"

"Don't...push...your luck..."

"Ha, ha, ha. Think, Cloud? ..."Cloud"? Ha, ha, ha. Oh, excuse me. You never had a name..."

"How does it feel? It's your first time in your hometown in a long time right? So how does it feel? I wouldn't know because I don't have a hometown."

"The knowledge and wisdom of the Ancients is held in the materia. Anyone with this knowledge can freely use the powers of the land and the Planet. That knowledge interacts between ourselves and the Planet, calling up magic."