- Henry Stone: [on the phone with the Secretary of Defense] We were scheduled to change the fuel rods tomorrow, sir. No sir. If we lost what's left of the cooling system, sir, the heat would melt the fuel rods right through the bottom of the reactor, sir. The China Syndrome.
- Harry Holland: Say, eh, how's that boy o' yours? I remember we had quite a conversation. You brought him to lunch at a conference. He was goin' into law, and he was pretty knowledgeable of our terrain law at that age.
- Frank Brolen: Mike was killed in 'Nam.
- Sheriff Sweeney: Who's in charge here?
- Frank Brolen: I am.
- Sheriff Sweeney: Good, 'cause I don't wanna have to repeat myself.
- Judy Wyche: [about Frank] He is a lonely man.
- Carl Wyche: He is not always that way.
- Judy Wyche: He may not always appear that way, but he is.