- Shale: I'm in charge of this class. I'm the warrior chief. I'm the merciless God of anything that stirs in my universe. You fuck with me, and you will suffer my wrath.
- Principal Claude Rolle: Two of your students are in the nurse's office talking a lawsuit right now.
- Shale: Why, is the nurse a lawyer?
- [Shale confronts Juan Lacas and his cronies in the library]
- Shale: Ohh, I can't tell you boys how much I needed this.
- Juan Lacas: When we're done, I want you to say 'I'm Sorry' 100 times.
- Shale: Shh. No talking in the library.
- Shale: You don't want soldiers, you want killers.
- Matt Wolfson: You know, you'll have to excuse me here Shale, 'cause I wasn't aware there was that much of a difference.
- Shale: Oh, there's a difference. You wanna know what the difference is?
- Matt Wolfson: Yeah, I'll play. You tell me what the difference is. But I don't want any...
- Shale: [pins him to the wall] The difference is... the difference is, you're still breathing.
- Shale: [about bowel sounds] Hey, that cereal really does work.
- [Claude Rolle tells Shale about how the drugs are shipped to the school via bus]
- Shale: And they said busing would never work.
- [last lines]
- Joey: It's definitely time to relocate.
- Shale: Yeah.
- Joey: It's too bad we had to fuck up the school. I feel bad for the kids tomorrow, man.
- Shale: They'll be okay. At least it's their school again.
- Joey: Yeah. Where the hell we gonna go, man?
- Shale: Uh, how's L.A. sound?
- Joey: More bomb threats.
- Shale: I heard the schools out there have a major drug problem.
- Joey: No! Ah, no, no more schools, man. Forget it.
- Mr. Darrell Sherman: Rolle was a cop. He knows the law.
- Hannah Dillon: Yeah, that's right Darrell, you keep the faith.
- Mr. Darrell Sherman: You're sellin' out your own people, motherfucker!
- Principal Claude Rolle: Sell out? You know what I see when I look at you, Darrell? I see me. I see me when I was young and stupid. Young man, I'm just doing you a favor.
- Mr. Darrell Sherman: So is this a personal mission, or a joint operation between the CIA and the PTA?
- Hollan: Shale, I got four dead cowboys here, and one very fucked-up looking Indian Johnny Glades. Can I put him out of his misery pretty-please?
- Principal Claude Rolle: [Holding Shale at gunpoint] Who you working for, Shale? Who you working for?
- Shale: Myself.
- Principal Claude Rolle: Yeah, right! A great teacher. You're a mercenary. You're in it for the money like everybody else!
- Shale: It was never about the money.
- Principal Claude Rolle: It's always about the money! If it's not about the money, what the hell else is there?
- Shale: I'd try to explain it to you Claude, but there's just some things that can't be taught.
- [Shale overpowers Rolle and kills him]