David Hayter credited as playing...
Solid Snake
- Solid Snake: Find something to believe in, and find it for yourself. When you do, pass it on to the future.
- Raiden: Believe in what?
- Solid Snake: That's your problem.
- Solid Snake: Life isn't just about passing on your genes. We can leave behind much more than just DNA. Through speech, music, literature and movies... what we've seen, heard, felt... anger, joy and sorrow... these are the things I will pass on. That's what I live for. We need to pass the torch, and let our children read our messy and sad history by its light. We have all the magic of the digital age to do that with. The human race will probably come to an end some time, and new species may rule over this planet. Earth may not be forever, but we still have the responsibility to leave what traces of life we can. Building the future and keeping the past alive are one and the same thing.
- [When the player equips a cardboard box]
- Iroquois Pliskin: The cardboard box that you have is ideal for fooling your enemies. It's a very important tool for infiltration missions.
- Raiden: Really?
- Iroquois Pliskin: Of course. I can't begin to count the number of agents whose lives were saved by a cardboard box...
- Raiden: You mean everyone's using them?
- Iroquois Pliskin: Look, I'm not exaggerating when I say the success of your mission hinges on how you use that cardboard box. But in the end, a cardboard box is only made of paper. Handle it with care or it won't be of much use to you. Don't think of it as just another box. Treat it with love... Don't be rough. Okay?
- Solid Snake: We can tell other people about - having faith. What we had faith in. What we found important enough to fight for. It's not whether you were right or wrong, but how much faith you were willing to have, that decides the future.
- Solid Snake: If you run out of ammo, you can have mine.
- Raiden: You got enough?
- Solid Snake: [points to his bandanna] Absolutely. Infinite ammo.
- Otacon: Another Chinese proverb: "Those who look to the Heavens prosper, those who defy it are no more." Do you know this one? The meaning here is - hold on a sec - that you can only survive as long as you're a part of the natural order of things. You remember pre-ripped jeans? Manufacturers thought that just because people loved old, broken-in jeans, they would want to buy new jeans that looked old. So they purposefully...
- Solid Snake: What do jeans have to do with nature and order?
- Solid Snake: [reciting Grey Fox's last words] "We're not tools of the government, or anyone else. Fighting was the only thing I was good at, but at least I fought for what I believe in."
- [Solid Snake hides in a locker]
- Solid Snake: This reminds me of when we first met.
- Otacon: I was the one inside the locker that time. We're equal now, huh?
- Solid Snake: Not unless I wet my pants.
- Otacon: That's a low blow, Snake.
- Pliskin: Fatman. Supposedly he's nicknamed after an atomic bomb, but to me he's just a Fat Man. Something straight out of a sideshow.
- Otacon: As for the equipment... Hey! Snake! Cigarettes? What's wrong with you?
- Solid Snake: It's kind of a lucky charm.
- Solid Snake: We don't use guns to take people down, and we're not here to help some politician either.
- Raiden: What are you and Otacon fighting for?
- Solid Snake: A future.
- Raiden: Snake, have you ever enjoyed killing someone?
- Solid Snake: Diminished sense of reality, huh? VR Training will do that.
- Solid Snake: Freeze-dried, the rations are easy to carry and keep well. It ain't home cookin', but it'll satisfy your nutritional needs.
- Raiden: Hmmm.
- Solid Snake: What's on your mind?
- Raiden: Well, just between you and me?
- Solid Snake: Sure. What is it?
- Raiden: I prefer rations over Rose's home cooking...
- Solid Snake: That bad, huh?
- Otacon: [Post-credits conversation] Snake, you there? It's me. I've finished going over that disc.
- Solid Snake: Did you find the Patriots' list?
- Otacon: Of course. It contains the personal data of twelve people. There was a name on it - Snake, it was one of our biggest contributors.
- Solid Snake: What's going on around here?
- Otacon: I don't know...
- Solid Snake: Anyway, where are they?
- Otacon: Well, we were right about them being on Manhattan, but...
- Solid Snake: But what?
- Otacon: They're already dead. All twelve of them.
- Solid Snake: When did it happen?
- Otacon: Well, ah... about a hundred years ago.
- Solid Snake: ...What the hell?
- Raiden: Snake, you're a legend!
- Solid Snake: A legend is usually bad news. Someone tells it, someone else remembers, everybody passes it on.