- Capt. Bartholomew Clark: Let's get the basic relationship down... I'm the lifeguard, you're the drowning man. If you relax, I can bring you to shore. If you fight me, then I'll have to slap you around.
- [as Capt. Bartholomew Clark flies away in a helicopter on an unauthorized flight]
- Col. George Walker: When he gets back here, sergeant, I'm throwing his ass in the stockade!
- Sgt. Harley Rumbaugh: We don't have a stockade, sir!
- Col. George Walker: I'll build one!
- Col. George Walker: You know anything about golf, Clark?
- Capt. Bartholomew Clark: No, sir. Golf wasn't big in my neighborhood.
- Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton: Bird Dog, I killed a man today. He wasn't even a soldier; he just kept coming. I couldn't stop him. I didn't want to do it. I never had to do anything like that before in my life.
- Capt. Bartholomew Clark: Listen here, Bat 21. I never met you, but you don't sound like a killer to me. I'm sure you couldn't stop it from happening.