- Cowboy: Man, I believe anything that's illegal is illegal because it makes more money for more people that way.
- Leach: Look here. I live comfortable. I'm no junkie bum. Just look at my pad. It's clean. Yeah, it's clean, except for these - creeps that come here and call themselves my friends. Shhi... My friends, wow. Like they come here with a little money, see. Then they expect me to use my hard earned connections to furnish them with heroin. But, then when I take just a little for myself, they cry and they scream - the bastards!
- Leach: Hungry. Like, eh, this is my pad, why shouldn't I eat? Huh? These creeps never eat. Don't they know it's nutritious?
- [first lines]
- J.J. Burden: [voice over, with the text displayed on screen] "Jim Dunn, the documentary film-maker, titled this film 'The Connection' and turned over all the footage to me before he left. I worked with him as cameraman and we shot the whole thing in a drug addict's apartment early one evening last Fall. The responsibility of putting together this material is fully mine. I did it as honestly as I could." This is J.J. Burden, New York City.