- US Ambassador Bartlett: How safe is this vest?
- Gunnery Sgt. Granger: Oh, it's top of the line, ma'am. It can stop a 9mm round at point-blank range.
- US Ambassador Bartlett: What if someone aims at my head?
- Gunnery Sgt. Granger: ...Duck, Ma'am.
- Lt. j.g. Meg Austin: He's young, gunny.
- Gunnery Sgt. Granger: They're all young, ma'am.
- Lt. j.g. Meg Austin: There were extenuating circumstances.
- Gunnery Sgt. Granger: He's a marine, lieutenant. He's got a duty to perform.
- Lt. j.g. Meg Austin: Which is hard enough without you making his life miserable.
- Gunnery Sgt. Granger: If you baby him he'll start second guessing his training and instincts, and that gets people killed.
- Lt. j.g. Meg Austin: In Texas we had a dog that would take on anything to protect our cattle. Eventually we had to shoot him because he got so damn vicious he didn't care what he killed.
- Gunnery Sgt. Granger: Permission to speak frankly, lieutenant?
- Lt. j.g. Meg Austin: Put it on the table, gunny.
- Gunnery Sgt. Granger: I know you don't like me or the way I operate. But it's my job to keep this embassy secure and my boys alive. This is not a courtroom. It's a battle zone. And I don't get to appeal when I lose.
- Lt. Harmon 'Harm' Rabb, Jr.: If security gets any tighter, they'll be strip searching us.
- Lt. j.g. Meg Austin: I wouldn't get my hopes up, sir.
- Gunnery Sgt. Granger: The Shining Path threatened a retaliation, ma'am. They've just made good on it.
- Lt. j.g. Meg Austin: The minute your men leave the embassy, they become an invading force.
- Gunnery Sgt. Granger: They have kidnapped one of my men, lieutenant. I am not *suing* to get him back.
- Lt. j.g. Meg Austin: And I will not let you start a war!
- Gunnery Sgt. Granger: With all due respect, lieutenant, stay out of my turf. And I will stay out of yours.