- Adam: They have listening devices now that can pick up a caterpillar sneezing two miles away; they know what you had for breakfast two days ago; they know what car you're gonna be buying three years from now! Every square inch of your existence is being recorded, analyzed, monitored and stored in a facility underground, right outside of Omaha!
- Chris Stevens: Happiness doesn't come from having things, happiness comes from being a part of things.
- Maurice J. Minnifield: It doesn't matter what I believe. It matters what the public believes.
- Dr. Joel Fleischman: Meaning what?
- Maurice J. Minnifield: Meaning you give them what they want. That's the role of journalism.
- Dr. Joel Fleischman: No, Maurice. That's the role of professional wrestling.
- Adam: It's not a pretty picture. Never mind the ethical implications. Acorns removed from their parents? Pleasure-pain experiments performed on rhododendrons?
- Adam: All I'm saying is, Leon's Roadhouse in Sweetwater charges $3.50 for a bowl of chili half this size, and theirs comes out of a can. Nobody's gonna squawk if we bump the price to a buck seventy-five.