- Nadya Light: Where I come from, when the government says someone's guilty, it's how you know they're innocent.
- Tom Shaw: Mr Jewell, you said before that in your comings and goings back and forth from the stage to the tower that you couldn't get, uh, an exact fix on the time. Is that correct?
- Richard Jewell: Yes, but when you have the runs, which I did, excuse me, you're not thinking about what time it is. You're just trying to crab-walk to a bathroom, you know?
- Richard Jewell: You're the only one who treated me like a human being! And now you're yelling at me, telling me I have to be somebody that I'm not! I'm not that guy, you're that guy!
- Bobi Jewell: Why do you keep defending them?
- Richard Jewell: I'm not defending, just explaning.
- Bobi Jewell: Well, stop it!
- Richard Jewell: [to Bryant] I did not plant that bomb in Centennial Park, and I made the mistake of assuming you knew that.
- Watson Bryant: You know, I actually feel sorry for you guys: when the real bomber does it again, and the country asks, 'where was the FBI?' you're gonna say, 'we were busy getting hair samples from Richard Jewel.'
- Watson Bryant: [sees the authorities approaching] You got any guns in the house?
- Richard Jewell: Yeah, we're in Georgia.
- Watson Bryant: You don't talk. I talk. Say it.
- Richard Jewell: I don't talk. But I want those guys to know that I'm law enforcement too, just like them.
- Watson Bryant: See right there, that's talking. That's what we don't want, OK?
- Bobi Jewell: Richard is not the Olympic Park bomber. Richard is not a murderer, he saved people's lives. Please hear me, Mr. President and help me. You have the power to end this nightmare. My son is a hero. I think the FBI knows that by now. If they do not intend to charge my son, please tell us; please tell the world. Mr. President
- [starts sobbing]
- Bobi Jewell: please clear my son's name.
- Watson Bryant: Richard, if you go for a cookie right now, I'm gonna chop off your hands and shove em up your ass! Try eating a cookie then, fucker!
- [after finding out his house has been bugged]
- Richard Jewell: Oh my lord. How can they do that?
- Watson Bryant: It's easy. Cause you don't matter. That's how come.
- Richard Jewell: Can I ask all you fellas a question?
- Tom Shaw: Jesus, What?
- Richard Jewell: Do you have any kind of case against me? I mean evidence. Like, any traces of anything on my Mama's Tupperware? Or did you find any bomb-making materials in her apartment? Did you find some...
- Watson Bryant: Hey, hey, hey. Richard you don't need to volunteer...
- Richard Jewell: I'm gonna say this if I gonna say anything. I walk in here and I look at the circle decal on your window there, and I'm thinking... I used to think that federal law enforcement was just about the highest calling a person could aspire to. And I'm not sure I think that anymore, you know? Not after all this. I did my job that night, and some people are alive because of that. Do you think that the next time some security guard sees a suspicious package, that he or she's gonna call it in? I doubt it. You know? Cause they're gonna look at that and they're gonna think "I don't wanna be another Richard Jewell... so I'm gonna run" How's that make anybody safer? Y'all can keep following me around some more doing what you're doing. I can stand it. But I just know that every second you spend on me is time that you're not spending on the real guy who did it, and it's like Watson said... what happens when he... what happens when he does it again? So, do you have anything you wanna charge me with?
- [Tom Shaw and the other agents are stunned silent]
- Richard Jewell: Can you?
- [Tom Shaw and the other agents are unable to respond]
- Richard Jewell: Well... I think it's time to...
- [Richard gets up and leaves the room]