- Jay Horton: As always, the real victims are the workers. They have been left to die like dogs in ghettos while the president's capitalist cronies shelter in their country mansions.
- Floyd Monk: Nature has a way of creeping into the modern world. Brings out the beast in some and the beauty in others.
- Kaan: I make music back home, Mr. Monk. I came to America for Tin Pan Alley. I hear the streets are paved with gold. When I get here, I learn two things. One, the streets are not paved with gold. And two, I was expected to pave them.
- Kaan: She's a dreamer. She has not learned the law of the land. How do you have servants ... when you are one?
- Jay Horton: If it were not for the journalists, in times like these, whose left to hold the feet of the powerful to the fire?