- Bob Garrity: When is enough, enough?
- Rose Chipley: Well, it's not like you're any help either, watching those movies with him every single night.
- Bob Garrity: No one in their right mind would watch The Deer Hunter and want to enlist!
- Master Sgt. Jenkins: [to Ned] An immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, but a mature man wants to live humbly for one. What that means, Ned, is we're in danger at home. We need good people looking after things here. I mean, sure, everybody wants to put on a uniform and be a hero, but... the real heroes are the ones looking after their fellow citizens here on the home front. The home front.
- Bob Garrity: [quoting his father] If ifs and buts were candies and nuts, we'd all have a hell of a Christmas. But we're not having a hell of a Christmas.
- Ned Chipley: I don't wanna fail.
- Bob Garrity: Well, then you gotta stop doing things that you're not qualified for.