- Sam McCloud: The shortest distance between two points is a row of corn.
- Sergeant Joe Broadhurst: Is this your idea of a shortcut?
- Sam McCloud: Just think of 5th Ave. during rush hour.
- Peter B. Clifford: Sergeant, I use that title in this temporary sense, I thought I said I didn't want to see the two of you around here?
- Sergeant Joe Broadhurst: It seemed important, chief.
- Peter B. Clifford: It always does. Alright, spit it out.
- Sam McCloud: Two of Straker's men just worked me over. Doesn't that strike you as rather odd?
- Peter B. Clifford: Not really, I've suppressed the thought myself on many occasions.
- Peter B. Clifford: I want McCloud kept away from the press, away from me, away from everyone.
- Sergeant Joe Broadhurst: I got ya, chief.
- Peter B. Clifford: Now I know you won't let me down, because we don't want to discuss this when you're back pounding a beat, do we?
- Sergeant Joe Broadhurst: In Mexico, you get me drunk. In Colorado, you get me beaten up and thrown in jail. I'm not losing you again.
- Sergeant Joe Broadhurst: [on payphone] Eh, this is gonna sound pretty strange but eh, I've gotta spend the night with McCloud.
- Mrs. Carol Broadhurst: [at home in bed] I think you two are spending a little bit too much time with each other.
- Sergeant Joe Broadhurst: Baby...
- Mrs. Carol Broadhurst: You see more of McCloud than you do of me. Would it help if I bought a stetson and boots?
- Sergeant Joe Broadhurst: Baby, you don't understand, I'm on special assignment. Our whole future could depend on this.
- Mrs. Carol Broadhurst: It does. When you're ready to come home, let me know. I'll eh, I'll mark the calendar.
- Sergeant Joe Broadhurst: I suppose it didn't occur to you that you'd be getting the both of us, if you'll pardon the expression, into a heap of trouble?
- Sam McCloud: Ya got to boil the hog to get the lard!
- Peter B. Clifford: McCloud, sending you after Bonnie Foster would be like sending Custer after Sitting Bull!
- Sam McCloud: I just had a run-in with a couple o' eighteen-wheelers across the highway there, did ya see 'em? They tried to kill us!
- Second Officer: You sure you didn't just try to cut in front of 'em? Truckers don't like that.
- Sam McCloud: Ya know, a lot's happened t' me since I seen ya last, Bonnie. I've embarrassed the New York Police Department, I've been suspended from the force, I've been handcuffed to a fellow officer, I've been beaten up and sprayed with DDT. But since I've come this far, that is if you don't mind, I'd just as soon talk to ya alone.
- Sam McCloud: You're a cog in Clifford's machinery! You're the butt end of his cigar!
- Sergeant Joe Broadhurst: I'm gonna make you eat those words, McCloud. Every one!
- Sergeant Joe Broadhurst: My promotion is at stake. I'm not blowin' 15 years on the force and 8 years of marriage just to help make you a hero.
- Sam McCloud: You don't have to worry about your promotion, you're not gonna make Lieutenant. Do you know why? Huh? Do you know why?
- Sergeant Joe Broadhurst: You'd better spell it out for me, McCloud.
- Sam McCloud: [shouting] Because you have no guts. No guts! That's the trouble with you city policemen, you gotta have an order to breathe. You know, where I come from, when we get on the trail of something, we just mount up and ride off.