- Claire: I still don't understand why we came to Velardi when were closer to Tucson. We could have cleared a couple of hundred there. We'll be lucky to squeeze a short fifty out these rubes.
- Max Healey: Tucson doesn't have Johnny Ringo
- Claire: Johnny Ringo!
- Max Healey: He's going to make us a million dollars... just bein' dead.
- Johnny Ringo, Sheriff: I didn't kill that boy's father, Laura. That's the truth. I swear it!
- Laura Thomas: Well, why do they do it? Why do people make up stories like that?
- Johnny Ringo, Sheriff: I don't know, Laura. I've often wondered about that myself. Maybe it's the animal in some men or the weakness or the aching to talk about it or simple ignorance. You name it.