Billy Covington: I don't wanna crash twice in one day.
Gene Ryack: Don't worry, I crash better that anyone I know.
Gene Ryack: Here at Air America, what's considered psychotic behavior anywhere else is company policy.
Gene Ryack: There'll be another, new war opening soon in a theater near you.
Gene Ryack: I've seen things here that I could never possibly have imagined, and I've got a pretty broad imagination.
Gene Ryack: Maybe you don't get this, but when you die that's it! End of story, blackness. They stick you in a box, cover you up with dirt, don't even let you out for weekends.
Rob Diehl: Hey Gene, You will remember what I said?.. Shhhh.
Gene Ryack: Well the problem is Rob, you and I weren't here, this conversation never happened, so I can't remember what the fuck you didn't tell me.
Billy Covington: Gene, you can't sell the plane! It's government property.
Gene Ryack: The U.S. Government doesn't exist in Laos and neither does this plane.
Billy Covington: Good point.
Gene: So we'll sit back and we'll do what we do best. We fly.