- Lionel Luthor: Empires are not brought down by outside forces - they are destroyed by weaknesses from within.
- Lana Lang: That's the thing about Clark Kent. He's not always there when you want him... but he's always there when you need him.
- Clark Kent: Hey, Lana, how's it going?
- [Pretending not to have been watching her brake up with Whitney]
- Lana Lang: Not great, but thanks for the courtesy clueless.
- [Knowing that they had been watching]
- Lex Luthor: My mother always hated that room.
- [Talking about the War Room with all of the antique weapons in it]
- Lex Luthor: "War is in our nature," she said. "We don't need to put it on display."