- Cheryl Hudson: Wake up, Joe. I think our luck just ran out.
- Joe Baragi: I'm not sleepin', baby. I'm just too much of a coward to keep my eyes open when you're drivin'. Dig?
- Jacob Elliot Saunders: Now you two get in the pick-up truck. I got somethin' else I got to do.
- Juney: No, I'm not...!
- Jacob Elliot Saunders: Now, Juney... Now, Juney, I'm not comin' with you. I'm goin' to the top of that mountain. I'm going to climb up there and watch it happen. I don't particularly want to be around when this thing's over with, but you two got to believe there can be a new beginnin'.
- [last lines]
- Deputy Sheriff Dan Colter: Cliff... Wait a minute, Cliff! Don't run! Come on, Cliff, get in the truck! You can't get away! Come on, get in the truck!
- [Colter bangs on the back of the truck]
- Deputy Sheriff Dan Colter: Let me in! Let me in! Let me in! You gotta let me in! Let me in! Let me in! Let me in! You gotta let me in! Let me in! Please, let me in! Open the door! You gotta open the door! Let me in! Let me in! Let me in! Please, open the door!
- [the landscape explodes in a fireball as the missle strikes]
- Deputy Sheriff Dan Colter: All right, we're in a state of emergency. This is a yellow alert... an air raid warning.
- Sam Barnes: We're being attacked!
- Sam Barnes: This means we're not going to get to Mexico City.
- Al Weston: If this is on the level, there'll be things flying around that are a lot more important than a plane to Mexico City.
- Sam Barnes: Do you realize the radius, the area of destruction, from the explosion of one hydrogen bomb? It's too late to run!
- Deputy Sheriff Dan Colter: People survived Hiroshima. We can survive this. We can't do it with you yelling your head off.
- Dispatcher: Attention all control points, all military, all civil defense units: Operation Scatter must not slow down. Traffic stoppages on River Freeways must be cleared. Execute severest measures to control hysteria and keep traffic flowing. Martial Law, emphasized Martial Law!
- Dispatcher: All units, all units - Situation 13-10, Situation 13-10. This is not a test! Condition yellow. Air raid! Air raid! Extreme emergency. All officers take charge: Operation Eager - 13-10. Yellow alert - this is not a test!
- [Colter has just strangled Karen's dog]
- Deputy Sheriff Dan Colter: It won't do you any good to cry. It's all over now. In a little while, you'll be thankin' me. Gettin' rid of that dog's gonna help an awful lot.
- Karen Barnes: Oh, my God! Ohhh!
- Deputy Sheriff Dan Colter: You'll be glad we don't have that pair of lungs when you're gaspin' for breath.