"[recording a message to the world prior to detonating his nuke] I'm a Serb! I'm a Croat! I'm a Muslim! You will look at what I have done and say, Of course - why not - they are all animals. They have slaughtered each other for centuries. But the truth is, I'm not a monster. I'm a human man - I'm just like you, whether you like it or not. For years, we have tried to live together, until a war was waged on us, on all of us: a war waged by our own leaders. And who supplied the Serb cluster bombs, the Croatian tanks, the Muslim artillery shells that killed our sons and daughters? It was the governments of the West who drew the boundaries of our countries - sometimes in ink, sometimes in blood - the blood of our people. And now you dispatch your peacekeepers to write our destiny again. We can never accept this peace that leaves us with nothing but pain, pain the peacemakers must be made to feel. Their wives, their children, their houses and churches. So now you know, now you must understand. Leave us to find our own destiny. [makes the sign of the cross] May God have mercy on us all."

"This is not a test."

"In the fall of 1997, every nuclear device in the world will be accounted for... Except one."

"Jim Haynie - General Garnett"

"Alexander Strobele - Hans Shummaker"

"Aleksandr Peskov - Russian Army Captain Vasiliy, accomplice of Kodoroff"

"Goran Višnjić - Russian Army Sergeant"

"Alexander Kuznetsov - Russian Air and Missile Defense Forces Controller"

"Harsh Nayyar - Dr. Taraki"

"Carlos Gomez - Santiago"

"Armin Mueller-Stahl - Russian Federal Security Service Colonel Dimitri Vertikoff"

"Bruce MacVittie - DOE Helo Tech"

"Holt McCallany - Mark Appleton"

"Michael Boatman - CPN Beach"

"Joan Copeland - Senator Bevens"

"Willie Tyler - Virgil"

"Beeson Carroll - Capt. Earl Delise"

"Kathleen Miller - Kathy Delise"

"Mary Gregory - Martha Vickery"

"Robert Ginty - Sgt. Dink Mobley"

"[being interviewed by a television news crew after chaining himself to a Marines Recruitment Facility] The reason why I'm here is because a buddy of mine who'd been in 'Nam took his own life today. This is kind of a funeral service. And I'm here because I'm trying to tell people, man, if we want to commit suicide, we have plenty of reasons to do it right here at home. We don't have to go to Vietnam to find reasons to kill ourselves. I just don't think we should be over there."

"Jane Fonda - Sally Hyde"

"Jon Voight - Luke Martin"

"[to Sally] You know, I spend 95% of the time at the hospital thinking of making love with you."

"I have killed for my country, or whatever, and I don't feel good about it. 'Cause there's not enough reason, man, to feel a person die in your hands, or to see your best buddy get blown away."

"Bruce Dern - Capt. Bob Hyde"

"Penelope Milford - Vi Munson"

"Robert Carradine - Bill Munson"

"Jesse Bradford - Rene Gagnon"

"Adam Beach - Ira Hayes"

"The real heroes are the ones left on the island."

"All it takes to win is the right picture."

"Every soldier stands beside a hero"

"They fight for their country but they die for their friends."

"Colonel Chandler Johnson: Our target, Island X, is an ugly, smelly, dirty little scab of rock called Iwo Jima. It means "Sulfur Island," which accounts for the smell. Looks sort of like a burnt pork chop if you ask me. After twenty straight days of bombing, you won't find a blade of grass or a twig on it. It wasn't that pretty to start with."

"James Bradley: [last lines] I finally came to the conclusion that he maybe he was right. Maybe there's no such thing as heroes. Maybe there are just people like my dad. I finally came to understand why they were so uncomfortable being called heroes. Heroes are something we create, something we need. It's a way for us to understand what's almost incomprehensible, how people could sacrifice so much for us, but for my dad and these men, the risks they took, the wounds they suffered, they did that for their buddies. They may have fought for their country but they died for their friends. For the man in front, for the man beside him, and if we wish to truly honor these men we should remember them the way they really were, the way my dad remembered them."

"Heroes are something we create, something we need."

"A single shot can end the war"

"Nobody even noticed that second flag going up. Everybody saw that damn picture and made up their own story about it. But your dad and the others knew what they had done, and what they had not done. All your friends dying, it's hard enough to be called a hero for saving somebody's life. But for putting up a pole?"

"U.S. Marines: [first lines] Corpsman! Corpsman! Corpsman! Corpsman! For God sakes, corpsman! Corpsman! Corpsman!"

"This isn't just any island to them. This isn't Tarawa, Guam, Tinian, or Saipan. This is Japanese soil, sacred ground. Twelve thousand Japanese defenders in eight square miles, they will not leave politely, gentlemen! It's up to us to convince them."

"General "Howlin' Mad" Smith: [on the telephone] I was promised ten days of shelling. You're giving me three and saying that's the best you can do?... I don't give a shit! My men hit that beach with less than ten, and I'll be taking them home to their mamas in buckets!... Yeah, I know exactly why. Because every Navy man with scrambled egg on his chest wants to offload us here and sail to Japan so they can be there for the big finish, tell their kids they captured the Emperor all by themselves. Well, you aren't going to Japan unless we take this piece of shit island! These little pricks are dug in... Okay, appreciate that, Jim. Three days is a fucking beautiful thing."

"President Harry S. Truman: Being an Indian, you are a truer American than any of us. Bet your people are proud to see you wear that uniform."

"Ryan Phillippe - John "Doc" Bradley"

"People on the street corners, they looked at this picture and they took hope. Don't ask me why, I think it's a crappy picture, myself. You can't even see your faces! But it said we can win this war, are winning this war, we just need you to dig a little deeper. They want to give us that money. No, they want to give it to you."