Joe Clark: So forget about the way it used to be. This is not a damn democracy! We are in a state of emergency and my word is law! There's only one boss around here, and that's me. The HNIC.
[exits]
Mr. O'Malley: HNIC?
Ms. Levias: Head ****** In Charge.
Joe Clark: The Lord said, do whatever you have to do. And he didn't say "Joe, be polite."
Thomas Sams: My father doesn't live with us anymore, sir.
Joe Clark: Oh, is that it? You just go around feeling sorry for yourself? Get out of here, boy; you're wasting my time!
[with a baseball bat in his hand]
Joe Clark: They used to call me Crazy Joe. Well now they can call me Batman!
Joe Clark: I don't have to do nothin' but stay black and die!
[after refusing admittance to the Fire Chief]
Joe Clark: You know what he's saying right now? "Black bastard can't throw me out!" You know where he's saying it? Out in the parking lot.
Joe Clark: Mr. Major, on behalf of myself and on behalf the students of Eastside High, you can tell the State to go to hell!
Joe Clark: We sink, we swim, we rise, we fall - We meet our fate together.
Joe Clark: [after bringing down a drug dealer] Get this disgrace to his race out of here!