Michael Keaton credited as playing...
Raymond Sellars
- Raymond Sellars: Alex, we need to work together here, because I'm the only one with the technology to keep you alive.
- RoboCop: Dead or alive, you're coming with me.
- Raymond Sellars: We need to give Americans a product they can love, a figure they can rally behind.
- Liz Kline: Sir, I have dissected this bill. There are no loopholes. We can't put a machine on the streets.
- Raymond Sellars: Forget machines. You saw the polls. Americans don't want a machine. They want a product with a conscience. They want something that knows what it feels like to be human. We're gonna put a man inside a machine.
- Dr. Dennett Norton: Raymond, you-you wanted a man inside a machine, and that's what you've got, but-but the human element will always be present. Fear, instinct, bias, compassion - they will always interfere with the system!
- Raymond Sellars: Okay, but, Dennett, I've gotta give the American people something they can root for, something aspirational, right? They have to believe in this thing. "Pretty good?" That's not... I don't know how to sell "okay." We, you and I, have got a release date, and we've gotta make it, okay? So I don't care how you do it. I'm askin' ya, come on, can you help me? Just get him to do that. Get him to do that.
- Dr. Dennett Norton: That is a machine.
- Raymond Sellars: I know, but it's a man inside a machine.
- Dr. Dennett Norton: No, that's a man inside a machine right there!
- Raymond Sellars: And his life depents on it, and the future of Omnicorp depends on it, so get your ass back to China and get it fixed. I don't care how you do it, just go do it!
- Senator Hubert Dreyfuss: I don't care how sophisticated these machines are, Mr. Sellers. A machine does not know what it feels like to be human. It can't understand the value of human life. Why should it be allowed to take one? To legislate over life and death, we need people who understand right from wrong. What do your machines feel?
- Raymond Sellars: Well, they feel no anger. They feel no prejudice. They feel no fatigue, which makes them ideal for law enforcement. Putting these machines on the streets will save countless American lives.
- Senator Hubert Dreyfuss: You're evading the question.
- Raymond Sellars: No, I'm not.
- Senator Hubert Dreyfuss: Yes, you're evading the question. I asked what do these machines feel? If one of them killed a child, what would it feel?
- Raymond Sellars: Nothing.
- Senator Hubert Dreyfuss: And that's the problem. That's why 72% of Americans won't stand for a robot pulling the trigger.
