- Ricardo Prisco: [attending to Pablo's fainting spell] Stress is dangerous. How's the weed working out?
- Pablo Escobar: I haven't been smoking a lot.
- Ricardo Prisco: The first man who smoked marijuana was a Chinese emperor. He burned the plant because he was attracted to its smell. But when he inhaled the smoke, he saw a blue jay. And the bird told him to conquer his neighboring empires. And that's what he did.
- Steve Murphy: [narrating] Due to events in their fairly recent past, Germany had some of the softest immigration standards in Europe... If you had a pulse, they tended to let you in... Now maybe that was good for mankind, and it was certainly good for the Escobars... It was very bad for us.
- Steve Murphy: [narrating] He put the city of Bogotá on edge, and the Colombian government on notice. Continue to ignore Los Pepes, refuse to acknowledge their crimes, and you're next. But terror brings more terror, and Los Pepes responded with their own special brand. We came up with a name for their displays. "Colombian folk art."Like I said, you can't make this shit up.
- [Pepes posing and mutilating bodies]
- Bill Stechner: I don't know what you know about what it is I do, but understand this: I have our nation's long-term interests in mind. That's the beat I walk. And sitting here tonight, that means making sure the right folks are left standing when Escobar gets his bullet. So do Uncle Sam a solid. Don't complicate that.
- Bill Stechner: [as Peña gets up to leave] These folks are prone to emotional decision-making. Which can lead to bush league nonsense, like killing a federal agent.