Government quotes

“He's a liar and a drunk. Piss on the president. Piss on the cabinet. He ain't gonna help us out here, you know. In Texas, robbers are outlaws. In Washington, robbers are elected. Isn't that right?”

John Bennett Perry - Ranger Captain Dan Reid

“- Tugger: What in the holy hell was he doing with a paper-shredder this big?
- Stuart: Well, he worked for the government, didn't he?”

Royce D. Applegate - Tugger
Rick Overton - Stuart Briggs

“- Michael Beattie: To fight church and state is to fight Goliath.
- Desmond Doyle: David beat Goliath in the book I read.”
Stephen Rea - Michael Beattie
Pierce Brosnan - Desmond Doyle

“The government can spend all kinds of money teaching you how to be a fearless test pilot, but they don't spend a god-damned thing teaching you how to be the fearless wife of a fearless test pilot.”
Barbara Hershey - Glennis Yeager

“- Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo': How can anyone learn patriotism from a school book?
- Young Missionary: The Government requires it.
- Old Missionary: The natives get used to it. Like vaccination.”
Klaus Kinski - Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo'
Dieter Milz - Young Missionary
Salvador Godínez - Old Missionary

“- Jack Potter: Who was it?
- Skinny Woman: We're talking about... Washington.
- Marty Mackenzie: My God, what, the governments involved?
- Skinny Woman: No, George Washintgon. That's right! The kid who couldn't tell a lie. Shocked? So was I. He's livin' right up in that old mine up on the hill. Him and Elvis and M.L. King and JFK and John Lennon...” (continue)(continue reading)

Leslie William Nielsen - Jack Potter
Suzanne Krull - Skinny Woman
Lochlyn Munro - Marty Mackenzie

“- Natalya Simonova: Who are you?
- James Bond: I work for the British government. The more you tell me the more I can help you.”
Izabella Scorupco - Natalya Simonova
Pierce Brosnan - James Bond

“Every so often things happen that can't be rationalized in a conventional way. People wanna know their government has a response. I am that response.”
Christopher McDonald - Kent Mansley

“The government has been mismanaged. I will lend the money, but only on condition that His Excellency withdraw and place the government in new hands.”

Margaret Dumont - Mrs. Gloria Teasdale

“- Ruth Lanier: How much do I get for the information I gave you on Waxman?
- Richard Chance: No arrest, no money.
- Ruth Lanier: It's my fault he's dead? It took me six months to get next to him. I got expenses, you know.
- Richard Chance: Guess what? Uncle Sam don't give a shit about your expenses. You want bread, fuck a baker.”
Darlanne Fluegel - Ruth Lanier
William Petersen - Richard Chance

“- Gov. Harold R. Sims, Tennessee: Are you threatening the Governor of this State with blackmail, Mrs. Carey?
- LaDonna Carey: Yes sir, I am!”
J. Don Ferguson - Governor Sims
Shirley Jones - LaDonna

“The government took my home.”
Time Winters - Homeless Man

“We consider ourselves blessed in our Constitution. We tell ourselves our Parliament is the envy of the world. But we live in the health and well-being of the sovereign as much as any vizier does the Sultan.”
Julian Wadham - Pitt

“There is historically nothing more corrosive to the morale of a population than policing its own citizens, but the enemy would be sadly mistaken if they were to doubt our resolve.”
Bruce Willis - General William Devereaux

“This whole goddamn program is off the shelf. Do you really think for one second those wimps at the Pentagon... would allow the regeneration of dead soldiers, American soldiers?”

Ed O'Ross - Colonel Perry

“- President Thomas J. Whitmore: I don't understand, where does all this come from? How do you get funding for something like this?
- Julius Levinson: You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?”
Bill Pullman - President Thomas J. Whitmore
Judd Hirsch - Julius Levinson

“- Ernie: You're a fool, Johnson. I'm the United States Treasury, what are you?
- Harry Johnson: I'm...
- Ernie: You can't beat the United States government, Johnson. Not in a million years. The taxes will be paid. We'll get it one way, we get it another. But we will get it.”
David Ogden Stiers - Ernie
Edward Herrmann - Harry Johnson

“These people are the dregs, Jack. Not even the governments can control them!”

Charlotte Rampling - Kate

“I am only a radio star with just one weekly show but speaking as one of the people. I want you to know we are tired of the decline of Argentina with no sign of a government able to give us the things we deserve.”
Madonna - Eva Perón

“I'm challenging the right of the IRS to destroy people, people like Beverly Paine. The God that gave us life gave us liberty at the same time. I think that most of you people will understand what I'm doing today. It's time to keep those liberties alive. I declare war on the IRS, and all the little men who have become their tyrants.”
Edward Herrmann - Harry Johnson

“- Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: What did State Department tell you to do?
- Agent Frank Haddad: Told me to call INS.
- Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: All right, what did INS say?
- Agent Frank Haddad: Told me to call State.”
Denzel Washington - Anthony Hubbard
Tony Shalhoub - Frank Haddad

“My father, gentlemen, claims that the government has neither wisdom nor humanity. I will then consider it my duty as my father's son to bring both wisdom and humanity to the United states' Congress. I thank you for your blessing, father.”
Aidan Quinn - Alfred Ludlow

“I want the people to know that they still have 2 out of 3 branches of the government working for them, and that ain't bad.”
Jack Nicholson - President James Dale

The government said "We want men to fight the Nazis, join today". So I joined. I figured they were in a hurry. That was three hundred and eighty seven days ago.
Raymond Massey - Andy Brock

“Kids today aren't dumb. They're not gonna buy just anything. That's why the government has been planting small subliminal advertising suggestions in today's rock music.”
Eugene Levy - Eugene Levy