- [Quark is pushing a heavy chest down the access tunnel]
- Dr. Julian Bashir: Quark, leave it!
- Quark: I can't leave it, it's all that I have. My personal mementos, my family album...
- Dr. Julian Bashir: It's full of gold-pressed latinum, and you know it.
- Quark: ...Who told you?
- Dr. Julian Bashir: Your mother did, the day you were born.
- [Quark shoves the chest aside and speed-crawls down the tunnel, until he's nose-to-nose with Bashir]
- Quark: Never make fun of a Ferengi's mother! Rule of Acquisition Number 31!
- [Kira and Dax come across a huge spider-like creature]
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: Agh! Whoa... What's that, is that a spider or a dog?
- Major Kira Nerys: Palukoo. The Bajoran moons are full of 'em.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: Oh, I suppose you used to make them your pets and, uh, sing songs about them around the campfire?
- Major Kira Nerys: No - we used to eat 'em.
- Quark: My ship... the Rio Grande... my brother's on it; he's got my ticket.
- Dr. Julian Bashir: [to Sisko] That ship is full, sir, I checked the list myself, and Quark's name wasn't on it. His brother Rom did go aboard, but he was with a dabo girl.
- Quark: [aghast] A dabo girl? What?
- Commander Sisko: Looks like he sold your seat.
- [smirks smugly]
- Major Kira Nerys: [referring to Li Nalas] Somehow you figured now that he was here... things would be better. You know, he'd... he'd find a way to make things better. Because he was a man who could do that - a great man. I wish I knew where we could find others like him.
- Commander Sisko: Major, there are heroes all over Bajor. I'm sitting with one.
- Chief O'Brien: Sir, can I ask you something?
- Commander Sisko: Sure.
- Chief O'Brien: About Li Nalas.
- Commander Sisko: M-hm.
- Chief O'Brien: Well, listening to Kira talk about all he was, all he did, all he was going through... She makes him sound like he was larger than life, like he was some kind of military genius. But the Li Nalas I...
- Commander Sisko: Chief, Li Nalas was the hero of the Bajoran resistance. He performed extraordinary acts of courage for his people and died for their freedom. That's how the history books on Bajor will be written, and that's how I'll remember him, when anybody asks.
- [Kira and Dax are chased by several Bajoran fighters]
- Major Kira Nerys: There is one problem.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: "One"?
- Major Kira Nerys: The guys flying those ships...
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: Yeah?
- Major Kira Nerys: ...used to be the guys flying these ships.
- Li Nalas: I've done everything I can to help. I'd die for my people, but...
- Commander Sisko: Sure you would. Dying gets you off the hook. Question is, are you willing to live for your people, live the role they want you to play? That's what they need from you right now.
- Nog: Has there ever been one of your kind and one of my kind who were better friends?
- Jake Sisko: Never.
- Nog: And if our fathers couldn't break us up, no stupid coup d'é... coup... coup-coup d'é...
- Jake Sisko: Coup d'état. It's French.
- Nog: And no stupid French thing will either!
- [Kira and Dax are disguising themselves as Bajoran vedeks]
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: So what do you think?
- Major Kira Nerys: Think?
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: The nose.
- Major Kira Nerys: Oh! It-it's flattering.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: I'm thinking of keeping it.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: How did you ever win a war in these things?
- Major Kira Nerys: We were the insects, Lieutenant. The Cardassians were just as allergic as Trills.
- [Odo leads Quark into ops]
- Odo: He's been brokering seats on the evacuation vessels.
- Commander Sisko: Where did you get more seats?
- Quark: Everybody always asks the brokers where they get their extra seats; and all I can say, this is my business to find preferred seating for select listed clients...
- Commander Sisko: [grabs Quark by his throat] I have got more than 200 people who want to get off this station. Where did you get more seats?
- Quark: A few trades... A person here or there who changed his mind about leaving at the sight of a reasonable stipend.
- Dr. Julian Bashir: [over comm] Bashir to Commander Sisko.
- Commander Sisko: Go ahead.
- Dr. Julian Bashir: We're having a bit of a panic at the airlock, sir. Far more passengers than we can handle have shown up, and they all claim to have made arrangements to leave.
- Quark: I might have overbooked slightly...
- [Dax refuses to leave Kira behind, who has been injured]
- Major Kira Nerys: You're being a fool, Dax.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: Don't talk to your elders that way.
- [Kira and Dax are flying an ancient Bajoran raider]
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: Navigational sensors aren't functioning.
- Major Kira Nerys: No problem.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: [incredulous] No problem? Big problem. Without navigational sensors...
- Major Kira Nerys: We'll have to fly by the seat of our pants.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: [sarcastically] Great. Seat-of-the-pants technology.
- Major Kira Nerys: You Starfleet types are too dependend on gadgets and gizmos. You lose your natural instincts for survival.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: My natural instincts for survival told me not to climb aboard this thing. I'd say they were functioning pretty well.
- Commander Sisko: Sisko to all units - you can thank Chief of Operations Miles O'Brien for your repast this afternoon.
- Dr. Julian Bashir: [sniffs at his combat ration] Woah - you haven't made any friends here, Chief - or should I say 'chef'?
- Commander Sisko: [to Colonel Day] We don't want to fight you or hurt anyone. Your officers will be our guests for a while. I hope they won't mind Starfleet combat rations.
- [first lines]
- Ben Sisko: Starfleet feels it has no other choice. The Federation is here on invitation of the Bajoran provisional government.