“- Jim Garrison: I can't believe they killed him because he wanted to change things. In our time. In our country.
- X: Well, they've been doing it all through history. Kings are killed, Mr. Garrison, politics is power, nothing more!”

Kevin Costner - Jim Garrison
Donald Sutherland - X

“What President wants to be in office when it comes crashing down around him?”
Arliss Howard - John C. Calhoun

“- Marguerite Oswald: I am responsible for two presidents.
- Robert Oswald: I'm sorry?
- Marguerite Oswald: Kennedy and now President Johnson. I'm not even a Democrat.”
Jacki Weaver - Marguerite Oswald
James Badge Dale - Robert Oswald

“- Kane: He's still a well-meaning fathead who's letting a pack of high-pressure crooks run his administration. This whole oil scandal...
- Emily Monroe Norton Kane: He happens to be the President, Charles, not you.
- Kane: That's a mistake that will be corrected one of these days.”
Orson Welles - Kane
Ruth Warrick - Emily Monroe Norton Kane

“The President has nothing further to communicate. Good day, sir.”

Alexander Knox - Woodrow Wilson