- Paladin: What makes this country is not its great men, standing alone trying to do the impossible. It's men of all kinds, large and small, trying to do a job together, not for their personal honor, but for the honor of their country.
- Paladin: I'll be happy to contribute my fee to the Police Widows' Pension Fund if you can guarantee me that not one cent of it will go for graft.
- Det. Insp. Clarence Magruder: Oh, now, Mr Paladin, you can't expect us to reform the whole municipal administration overnight, can you?
- Det. Insp. Clarence Magruder: You know much about Orientals?
- Paladin: [Paladin looks at Hey Boy] A little.
- Det. Insp. Clarence Magruder: Well then, you know they ain't like you and me.
- Paladin: I'm not at all sure I know THAT!
- Det. Joe Tsin: His fighting men, expert, scientific killers, who eat the flesh of wild cats to give them cunning. Those men who attacked you in the streets just now, they were children compared to those fighting men who work for Lushan.