“- Pat Nixon: I just wish you knew how much I love you, that's all. It took me a long time to fall in love with you, Dick. But I did. And it doesn't make you happy. You want them to love you...
- Richard M. Nixon: No, I don't. I'm not Jack...
- Pat Nixon: But they never will, Dick. No matter how many elections you win, they never will.”

Joan Allen - Pat Nixon
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“- Emily Monroe Norton Kane: Charles, people will think...
- Kane: What I tell them to think.”
Ruth Warrick - Emily Monroe Norton Kane
Orson Welles - Kane

“- Kane: It's obvious the people prefer Jim Gettys to me.
- Jedediah Leland: You talk about the people as though you owned them, as though they belong to you. As long as I can remember, you've talked about giving the people their rights, as if you can make them a present of liberty, as a reward for services rendered.”
Orson Welles - Kane
Joseph Cotten - Jedediah Leland

“In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished.”

Hugo Weaving - V

“The power of television, of public exposure, it scares me. I swear, I could get the mayor's own children to throw rocks at him!”
Dom DeLuise - Melvin