Government quotes

“- Maddy: Richard, tell me. Are you an agent?
- Richard: No! But I used to have an agent.
- Maddy: No! No. Do you work for the government? Are you a spy?
- Richard: No, of course not. I'm no more a spy than you're spy.
- Maddy: Richard... I am a spy.
- Richard: You're a spy?”

Lori Singer - Maddy
Tom Hanks - Richard

“I have seen the collapse of government after government, and they all think they can last a thousand years. Each new one always declares the last one criminal and corrupt, and always promises a future of justice and freedom.”
Rosemary Harris - Valerie Sors

“There isn't a government on this planet that wouldn't kill us all for that thing.”

Sir Sidney Poitier - Crease

What makes America the best government? The passion that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world. Sure you call it "capitalism", "free market", "celebration of tariff breakdowns". I have another word for it: love.
Cameron Bright - Joey Naylor

“- Deke DaSilva: I don't need a vacation.
- Lt. Munafo: Yes, you do. Now, they need someone who knows the local rat holes and you're nominated. Anything goes down, you're the man.
- Deke DaSilva: You mind telling me where this came from?
- Lt. Munafo: From the Commissioner, and he got it from Washington. They're sending a specialist from...” (continue)(continue reading)

Sylvester Stallone - Deke DaSilva
Joe Spinell - Lt. Munafo

- David Gale: You don't subscribe to the idea that "a good state is the one that protects its most despised members"?
- Governor Hardin: It's a nice liberal idea. But, like most nice liberal ideas, naive.
Kevin Spacey - David Gale
Michael Crabtree - Governor Hardin

“How can I be satisfied after working for two years making a film which I hope will make a difference, when the government sees the film and does nothing about it?”
Mathieu Kassovitz

Over the last ten years, this bloody government has systematically destroyed an entire industry. Our industry. And not just our industry - our communities, our homes, our lives. All in the name of "progress".
Pete Postlethwaite - Danny

“The election is ancient history, Zaphod. If memory serves, you won, proving that good looks and charm win over brilliance and the ability to govern. And for the record? You are stupid.”

John Malkovich - Humma Kavula

“I have a slogan that should be blazoned on every newspaper in this country: America for the Americans! The government must not interfere with business! Reduce taxes! Our national debt is something shocking. Over one billion dollars a year! What this country needs is a businessman for president!”
Berton Churchill - Henry Gatewood

“- Samir Horn: Oh, I'm a terrorist?
- Roy Clayton: I don't know you tell me, you've been selling them explosives.
- Samir Horn: Oh, I sell to who can afford to buy it... like the US Government.
- Max Archer: Only ours don't kill innocent people.
- Samir Horn: Oh yeah they do, genius, people just usually have darker skin.”
Don Cheadle - Samir Horn
Guy Pearce - Roy Clayton
Neal McDonough - Max Archer

“- Richard Schlichting: You know the stuff they tell you about, you know, chromosome damage and all that stuff?
- Mel Coplin: Yeah, I do!
- Richard Schlichting: That's government propaganda.”

Alan Alda - Richard Schlichting
Ben Stiller - Mel Coplin

“Hello, I'm Tom Hanks. The US Government has lost its credibility so it's borrowing some of mine.”
Tom Hanks - Himself

“- John Nichols: When the government turns tyrannical, it is your duty to overthrow it.
- Michael Moore: Why not use Gandhi's way? He didn't have guns, and he beat the British Empire.”
John Nichols - Himself
Michael Francis Moore - Himself

“- Mitch Leary: The irony is so thick you could choke on it.
- Frank Horrigan: There's no fucking irony, Mitch.
- Mitch Leary: Think, Frank. The same government that trained me to kill trained you to protect. Yet now you want to kill me while up on that roof I protected you. They're gonna write books about us, Frank.”

John Malkovich - Mitch Leary
Clint Eastwood - Frank Horrigan

“Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.”
Tim Roth

“A few moments ago, I realized the only reason I was getting married was because of a law, and that didn't seem like a good enough reason. So, I won't be getting married today. My grandmother has ruled without a man at her side for quite some time, and... I think she rocks at it.”
Anne Hathaway - Mia Thermopolis

“If you tell the government they will take forty percent of it. Forty percent! Do you know how much that is? That's nearly all of it.”

Lewis McGibbon - Anthony

“The government's been in bed with the entire telecommunications industry since the forties. They've infected everything. They get into your bank statements, computer files, email, listen to your phone calls... Every wire, every airwave. The more technology used, the easier it is for them to keep tabs on you. It's a brave new world out there. At...” (continue)(continue reading)
Gabriel Byrne - Brill

I'll introduce a bill. But if all the angels came dancing down to earth like the Rockettes, even they couldn't get a dime out of this administration for anything with the name "gay" on it.
Dakin Matthews - Congressman Phil Burton

“- Superman: Look. I'm here to help... but it has to be on my own terms. And you have to convince Washington of that.
- General Swanwick: Even if I were willing to try, what makes you think they'd listen?
- Superman: I don't know, General. Guess I'll just have to trust you.”
Henry Cavill - Superman
Harry Lennix - General Swanwick

“I don't want the Communists in here. But Washington wants vengance on the emperor, because their voters do, and their voters have no fucking idea what's good for them.”
Tommy Lee Jones - General Douglas MacArthur

“- Ebenezer Scrooge: Why are these people out here? Men and women in rags. Children eating scraps! There are institutions.
- Ghost of Christmas Present: Have you visited any of them? These institutions you speak of?
- Ebenezer Scrooge: No! I am taxed for them. Isn't that enough?”
George C. Scott - Ebenezer Scrooge
Edward Woodward - Ghost of Christmas Present

“- John Patrick Mason: All I know is that you were big in Vietnam, I saw the highlights on television.
- General Francis X. Hummel: Then you probably have no idea what it means to lead some of the finest men on God's earth into combat and then watch their memories get betrayed by their own fucking government.”
Sir Sean Connery - John Patrick Mason
Ed Harris - General Francis X. Hummel

“- Professor Stephen Malley: Have you ever been to Greece?
- Todd Hayes: Greece? No.
- Professor Stephen Malley: No, because their government makes ours look like a streamlined version of the future.”
Robert Redford - Professor Stephen Malley
Andrew Garfield - Todd Hayes