- Jordan Boyle: Whover heads the commission to investigate this one is done. Dead and buried. Hang the kids, hang the Guard, sit on the fence--you're gonna make enemies. We got enough of those already, Hays.
- Jordan Boyle: Commissions are three for a nickel today. No matter what their findings are nobody ever acts on them.
- Lt. Tony Caffey: There's talk the kids are gonna shake it up again and the governor is going to order back out the Guard. Is that true?
- Senator Hays Stowe: We've heard the talk. We don't know.
- Lt. Tony Caffey: Senator, if they order me back, I'm not coming. I don't care. I'm not coming.
- Gov. George Keller: Now listen, I'm getting these reports that all hell's breaking loose in your town. I need a firsthand account I can trust. What's the matter with these kids?
- [pounds desk]
- Frank Bettancourt: I don't know, sir. The whole country's gone to hell if you ask me.
- [last lines]
- Zack: [climbs atop pedestal] Everybody, up here! Listen! Can you see what's happening? I mean, can you see the whitewash coming? Right! Isn't it obvious? Right! So what I say is this: I say we shut 'em down! And shut 'em down now! Right! The whole commission! Tell 'em to take a hike! And if they don't take a hike, then blow them right out of the water! I mean, when you can see it happening, when they're copping out, then what's the point in waiting around until it's official, right? When they're shootin' at ya, baby, you're in a war! And it's time to start shootin' back!
- Mayor Wisnovsky: What are you gonna do? What are you really gonna do? Are you gonna throw those kids out of school? Are you gonna make them go work for a living for a change? Are you gonna stop coddling them and making them feel better than mere people? Are you gonna have them arrested for arson and attempted murder? Don't give me this academic senate crap! What are you going to do?
- [pounds fist on desk]
- Chancellor Steinitz: Mr. Mayor, until you let me get a word in edgewise, I cannot even think what I'm going to do let alone tell you.
- Mayor Wisnovsky: Well, let me tell you! I've got connections in this state. And I'll get whoever I have to to send the army in here!
- Chancellor Steinitz: No, don't do that. That's not going to solve any problems. That's only going to create more problems. Please, let's talk this through.
- Mayor Wisnovsky: Planes! Tanks! Whatever! We'll drop the atomic bomb on you idiots if that's what it takes!