"[in a debate on healthcare] Shut up. Enough already. I've heard all the bitching and moaning I can stand for one day, alright? Look, if you want to regard me as some kind of blood-sucking vampire, then fine, great, I'll be the bad guy. [points at John] But who's holding the fucking gun?"

"Jimmy Palumbo: [Interviewed by Tuck Lampley] I've got to be honest this whole thing sucks, it could've all been avoided incredibly easy, none of this had to happen if John could've been a millionaire or if his last name was Rockefeller, sometimes he doesn't understand what we hold sacred in this country isn't values, its "value" that's important, we've got haves and we've got have not we've got white collar, blue collar and then we've got no collar, inside the hospital we've got "luck surgery" and "out of luck surgery", there's a lot of people out there who don't have two hundred fifty grand in their bill fold, seeing a man like that backing into a corner it seems to me "something" is out of whack, not "someone.""

"Give a father no options and you leave him no choice."

"Desperate times call for desperate measures."

"Denzel Washington - John Quincy Archibald"

"Kimberly Elise - Denise Archibald"

"Daniel E. Smith - Michael "Mike" Archibald"

"James Woods - Dr. Raymond Turner"

"Anne Heche - Rebecca Payne"

"Robert Duvall - Lt. Frank Grimes"

"Ray Liotta - Chief Gus Monroe"

"Shawn Hatosy - Mitch Quigley"

"Heather Wahlquist - Julie Byrd"

"David Thornton - Jimmy Palumbo"

"Laura Harring - Gina Palumbo"

"Troy Beyer - Miriam Smith"

"Kevin Connolly - Steve Maguire"

"Troy Winbush - Steve Smith"

"Vanessa Branch - Nurse"

"Eddie Griffin - Lester Matthews"

"Martha Chaves - Rosa Gonzales"

"Larissa Laskin - Dr. Ellen Klein"

"Ethan Suplee - Guard Max Conlin"

"Obba Babatundé - Sgt. Moody"

"Paul Johansson - Tuck Lampley"

"Dina Waters - Debby Utley"

"Keram Malicki-Sánchez - Freddy B."