- Quark: [an intoxicated Quark is lamenting to Kira, Rom, Jake and Odo] I tried. I tried my best to run my establishment under this occupation. But you know what, it's no fun. I don't like Cardassians. They're mean and arrogant. And I can't stand the Jem'Hadar. They're creepy. They just stand there like statues, staring at you. That's it. I don't want to spend the rest of my life doing business with these people. I want the Federation back. I want to sell root beer again!
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: Are you two ever gonna be finished?
- Nog: Just a few more minutes, Commander.
- Chief O'Brien: That's 'Captain'. It's an old naval tradition. Whoever's in command of a ship, regardless of rank, is referred to as 'Captain.'
- Nog: You mean if I had to take command, I would be called 'Captain,' too?
- Chief O'Brien: Cadet, by the time you took command, there'd be nobody left to call you anything.
- [Damar has been promoted to the rank of gul]
- Quark: Wait a minute - you started a fight in my bar, and now you're getting a promotion? What kind of way is that to run an army?
- Odo: [of Kira] I'm so vulnerable to her. All she has to do is smile at me and I'm happy beyond reason. A minor disagreement between us and I'm devastated. It's absurd. Sometimes I wish I could reach inside myself and tear out my feelings for her. But I can't.
- Rom: [a visibly drunk Quark has swayed into Kira's quarters] Brother! Are you all right?
- Quark: No, I am not all right. I just shared a bottle of kanar with... Damar.
- [Quark lets out a drunken belly laugh]
- Quark: That rhymes!
- [continues to laugh]
- Jake Sisko: You're drunk.
- Quark: [slurring] Of course, I'm drunk! I wouldn't risk coming here to your little resistance cell if I wasn't drunk.
- Captain Sisko: [holding a spent power cell of the phaser array] Take a good look at this, people. It says something about this ship. It says that we will fight, and we will keep on fighting, until we can't fight any more!
- All: Yes, sir!
- Captain Sisko: You don't just throw something like this away!
- All: No, sir!
- [Dax is in command of the Defiant]
- Captain Sisko: I wouldn't get too comfortable in that chair, old man. When this war is over, I'm going to want my ship back!
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: Fine. When this war is over, I'm going on a honeymoon.
- Odo: To become a thing is to know a thing.
- Female Shapeshifter: To assume its form is to begin to understand its existence.
- Odo: When you return to the link, what will become of the entity I'm talking to right now?
- Female Shapeshifter: The drop becomes the ocean.
- Odo: And if you choose to take solid form again?
- Female Shapeshifter: The ocean becomes a drop.
- Major Kira: Rom is sitting in a holding cell, being interrogated. He was counting on you. *I* was counting on you!
- Odo: I know.
- Major Kira: You know? Do you realize what you just did? You just handed the Alpha Quadrant to the Dominion.
- Odo: I was in the link.
- Major Kira: Are you saying you forgot?
- Odo: I didn't forget. It just didn't seem to matter.
- Major Kira: A lot of people are going to die. Don't you care?
- Odo: It has nothing to do with me.
- [last lines]
- Female Shapeshifter: You look troubled, Odo. Did she upset you?
- Odo: No - not really.
- Female Shapeshifter: Ah.