"Witness: [voice-over] Of course, nobody goes with the idea of dying, everybody wants to live. I don't remember his exact words, but the meaning was that grand things are ahead, worth living and worth dying for. He himself said that."

"A mujahid in Baku: They are supporting you [John Reed] for your call for a holy war of Islamic people against the western infidels."

"Interviewee: We all have problems, don't you know? But to take on the problem of all humanity, to save all humanity, my God, that was too big even for Jesus Christ."

"Interviewee: Kerensky was anxious to conduct it [World War I], produce some battalions of women who were going to go and fight."

"Interviewee: I said, I think, that a guy who's always interested in the condition of the world and changing it either has no problems of his own or refuses to face them."

"I think voting is the opium of the masses in this country. Every four years you deaden the pain."

"You dream that if you discuss the revolution with a man before you go to bed with him, it'll be missionary work rather than sex."

"I'd like to kill you, but I can't. So you can do whatever you want to. Except not see me."

"Jack dreams that he can hustle the American working man, who's one dream is that he could be rich enough not to work, into a revolution led by his party."

"If you were mine, I wouldn't share you with anybody or anything. It'd be just you and me. We'd be the center of it all. I know it would feel a lot more like love than being left alone with your work."

"I'd like to see you with your pants off, Mr. Reed."

"Look, what does a capitalist do? Let me ask you that, Mike. Huh? Tell me. I mean, what does he make, besides money? I don't know what he makes. The workers do all the work, don't they? Well, what if they got organized?"

"Economic freedom for women means sexual freedom, and sexual freedom means birth control..."

"All right, Miss Bryant, do you want an interview? Write this down. Are you naïve enough to think containing German militarism has anything to do with this war? Don't you understand that England and France own the world economy and Germany just wants a piece of it? Keep writing, Miss Bryant. Miss Bryant, can't you grasp that J. P. Morgan has loaned England and France a billion dollars? And if Germany wins, he won't get it back! More coffee? America'd be entering the war to protect J. P. Morgan's money. If he loses, we'll have a depression. So the real question is, why do we have an economy where the poor have to pay so the rich won't lose money?"

"Boyd Kestner - Wickwire"

"Scott Wilson - C.O. Salem"

"Anne Bancroft - Sen. Lillian DeHaven"

"Viggo Mortensen - Master Chief John James Urgayle"

"Demi Moore - Lt. Jordan O'Neil"

"Welcome to SEAL/C.R.T. selection program. You have volunteered for the most intensive military training known to man. You are all proven operators within the SpecOps community: SEALs, EOD, Army Delta, Marine Force Recon, Naval Intel community, and so on. In spite of your expertise, many of you will not successfully negotiate this program. Those that do, will experience an operational tempo that exceeds that of any other unit within the U.S. arsenal. That is all that is to be said about the special nature of the CRT training program. I now turn you over to my Command Master Chief, John James Urgayle."

"[on why she started Lt. O'Neil on the SEAL program in the first place] Truthfully, I never expected you to do so damn well! I figured you'd ring out in two weeks, bing bang it's over, and we're popular."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, Mr. Hayes. If a cannibal used a knife and fork, would you call that progress too?"

"I'll never live this one down."

"Lieutenant, seek life elsewhere."

"Remember, there are no bad crews, only bad leaders."

"Sergeant Cortes, however brief your stint with this command might be, there are two words you will learn to put together: Team-Mate."

"60% of you will not pass this course! How do I know? Because that is an historical fact! Now for the bad news, I always like to get one quitter on the first day, and until I do, that first day does not end!"

"The ebb and flow of the Atlantic tides, the drift of the continents, the very position of the sun along its ecliptic. These are just a few of the things I control in my world. Is that clear?"

"[quoting "Self-Pity" by D.H. Lawrence] I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."

"Suck my dick!"

"How am I supposed to fit in with these guys when you've got me setup as an outsider? You've given me a different set of rules. The answer is, I can't. I mean really, why didn't you just issue me a pink petticoat to wear around the base?"

"Jason Beghe - Royce"

"David Vadim - Cortez"

"Morris Chestnut - McCool"

"I'm on the board of my son's school, I have fundraisers for adult literacy at my own home. I think I have a right to know if my husband is a legitimate business man."

"Hi, I'm Caroline, and I'm not sure if I'm an alcoholic. I mean, I don't really like to drink. For someone my age it's a lot easier to get drugs than it is to get alcohol. I guess I'm angry. I mean, I think I'm really angry about a lot of stuff. I'm just not sure what."

"My name is Robert. And my wife, Barbara and I are here to support our daughter Caroline. And we're here to listen."

"What's Washington like? Well its like Calcutta, surrounded by beggars. The only difference is the beggars in Washington wear 1500 dollar suits and they don't say please or thank you."

"If there is a war on drugs, then many of our family members are the enemy. And I don't know how you wage war on your own family."

"Albert Finney as White House Chief of Staff"

"Don Cheadle as Montel Gordon"

"Dennis Quaid as Arnie Metzger"