“- Ellen Mitchell: What do you do for a living?
- Dave Kovic: When I'm not running the country?
- Ellen Mitchell: Yeah.
- Dave Kovic: I run a temp agency. You know, secretaries and stuff.
- Ellen Mitchell: So you find people jobs.”

Sigourney Weaver - Ellen Mitchell
Kevin Kline - Dave Kovic

“- Eleanor Roosevelt: Harry, the President is dead.
- Harry S. Truman: Mrs. Roosevelt, is there anything I can do for you?
- Eleanor Roosevelt: Oh! Is there anything we can do for you? You are the one in trouble now.”
Marian Seldes - Eleanor Roosevelt
Gary Sinise - Harry S. Truman

“When I saw Bobby lying there on the floor, arms stretched out, his eyes staring... I knew then I'd be President. His death paved the way, didn't it? Vietnam, the Kennedys, cleared a path through the wilderness just for me. Over the bodies. Four bodies.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“- Romero: You touch me, he dies. If you're not in the air in thirty seconds, he dies. You come back in, he dies. Twenty seconds.
- Hauk: I'm ready to talk.
- Romero: Nineteen. Eighteen.
- Hauk: What do you want?
- Romero: Seventeen. Sixteen.
- Hauk: Let's go. Let's go!”

Frank Doubleday - Romero
Lee Van Cleef - Hauk

“- Danny: I did a real stupid thing that inadvertently led to the death of a United States president, I'm feeling pretty lousy about it.
- Frank Stockburn: Well son, look at my eyes... Shit happens!”
Luke Wilson - Danny
Nick Nolte - Frank Stockburn