- Steve Murphy: Are you fucking her?
- Javier Peña: Sleep with a communist? That would be downright un-American.
- Pablo Escobar: We can go someplace else. I hear Switzerland is very beautiful.
- Tata Escobar: In Switzerland, we are nobody, Pablo. What good is having all the money in the world if you can't go home?
- César Gaviria: [speaking to American journalists] Colombians say God made our land so beautiful it was unfair to the rest of the world. So to even the score God populated the land with a race of evil men. The primary impediment to a free and uninhibited future is the violence and terror that currently grips our beloved country. A violence initiated by these evil men will be brought to justice, in the name of decency, and in the memory of Luis Carlos Galan. We will extradite. This decision will not come from fear. It has come from a clarity of judgment, free from the cloud of terror that surrounds us and obscures our view. I can say only one thing to Colombians in these times of peril: There will be a future. Thank you.
- Connie Murphy: How'd you get involved with communists?
- Elisa Alvaro: Have you actually met a communist?
- Connie Murphy: Yeah, I have actually, and she lied to me.
- Elisa Alvaro: Well, I'm not a communist, Connie. I'm fighting against poverty, corruption, injustice and greed. But I guess Americans don't have the same problem.
- Connie Murphy: Don't we?
- Elisa Alvaro: It's not the same.
- Steve Murphy: [narrating] Right wing, left wing - for Manuel Noriega, it was all about the money. When Bush was head of the CIA, Noriega pretended to be a commie hater so the US would ignore the fact that he was heavily involved as a drug trafficker. When Noriega realized he could make even more money shipping his drugs by siding with communists, he switched teams. So, we invaded Panama, and arrested "Old Pineapple Face."
- Steve Murphy: [narrating] It's been said that nothing gives the fearful more courage than another's fear.