Nation quotes

“I have no desire for an oriental woman to touch me above the waist.”

Colin Quinn - Gordon

“Lieutenant, his father was more than the President, he was the tribal king! That makes him... Heir to the Ibo nation!”

Benjamin A. Onyango - Colonel Emanuel Okeze

- Scott Donlan: Where are you from, like Nor... Norland? Norway?
- Hotel Manager: Uh, I'm Irish-German.
- Stefan Vanderhoof: Like Robert Duvall in "The Godfather".
- Scott Donlan: Bratwurst and shillelaghs... paging Dr. Freud.
John Michael Higgins - Scott Donlan
Ed Begley Jr. - Hotel Manager
Michael McKean - Stefan Vanderhoof

“My loyal subjects, a grave duty confronts us all: to prepare our nation for a war that none of us wants, least of all your queen. We have tried by all means in our power to avert this war.”
Flora Robson - Queen Elizabeth

“What is so different about Americans? Are we homicidal in nature? Because in Europe and Australia, most other free-world countries they don't have this. They don't have people who snap and go on murderous rampages.”
Tom Mauser - Father of Victim

“Half-fed slaves building our nation's Capitol. What possible good can come from such a place?”
Laura Linney - Abigail Adams

“Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation.”
Edward Norton - Alan Isaacman

“- C. S. Divot: Who do you think you are?
- Hrundi V. Bakshi: In India, we don't think who we are. We know who we are.”
Gavin MacLeod - C. S. Divot
Peter Sellers - Hrundi V. Bakshi

“- Constance Spano: Now what do we do?
- President Thomas J. Whitmore: Address the nation. There's gonna be a lot of frightened people out there.
- Constance Spano: Yeah? I'm one of 'em.”
Margaret Colin - Constance Spano
Bill Pullman - President Thomas J. Whitmore

“- Jay: Why did you join MiB?
- Agent Tee: Six years in the Marines. Love to serve, love the action.
- Jay: You wanted to play hero.”
Will Smith - Jay
Patrick Warburton - Agent Tee

“- Max: I'm saving the country, Wade - doing something for the benefit of the United States of America.
- Wade: I was born in Quebec.
- Max: Okay... then we're saving North America.”
Jason Patric - Max
Holt McCallany - Wade

“I have a very large family, 42 million.”
Morgan Freeman - Nelson Mandela

“I use the law allowing for the seizure of property in a war knowing it applies only to the property of governments and citizens of belligerent nations. But the South ain't a nation, that's why I can't negotiate with'em.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Abraham Lincoln

“The wrongs will be righted! The past made present! The United - divided!”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Dr. Arliss Loveless

“Since the beginning of written history a nation's power has been measured by the size of its standing army.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Dr. Arliss Loveless

“This is my home. My country. Frank Lucas don't run from nobody. This is America.”
Denzel Washington - Frank Lucas

“- Tony Two-Toes: There they are. Commie bastards!
- Little Mike: They're not communists any more, Tony. They're a federation of independent liberated states.
- Tony Two-Toes: Don't make me hurt you, Mikey.”
Joe Viterelli - Tony Two-Toes
Tony Longo - Little Mike

- Jeff Dunham: So you're Muslim?
- Achmed the Dead Terrorist: I don't think so.
- Jeff Dunham: You don't think you're Muslim?
- Achmed the Dead Terrorist: No.
- Jeff Dunham: Why not?
- Achmed the Dead Terrorist: Look at my ass. It says: "Made in China".

Jeff Dunham - Achmed the Dead Terrorist
Jeff Dunham - Himself

“Tiananmen Square boiled down to one man standing in front of a tank, that couldn't move or shoot, because human dignity was stronger than steel or bullets. It changed a nation.”
Wesley Snipes - Joe

“Look, these people, they have no jobs, no food, no education, no future. I just figure that we have two things we can do. Help, or we can sit back and watch a country destroy itself on CNN. Right?”

Josh Hartnett - Eversmann

“We are not like them. We know rich opportunities when we see them and do not throw away God's blessing.”

Ben Kingsley - Behrani

“The day may not be many winter counts away when all men will be brothers. A new Indian nation will come out of this time of change. Strong. Proud. United.”
Michael Horse - Tonto

“That's what this nation has been built on, proud men. Proud fucking warriors! Two thousand years this little tiny fucking island has been raped and pillaged, by people who have come here and wanted a piece of it - two fucking world wars!”

Stephen Graham - Combo

“Darling... you know how God invented liquor so the Irish wouldn't rule the world. Well, I think he may have invented being stubborn so we can be the best at something.”
Val Kilmer - Col. John Henry Patterson

“- Combo: But I've got one question to ask you. Do you consider yourself English, or Jamaican?
- Milky: English.
- Combo: Lovely, lovely, love you for that, that's fucking great. A proud man, learn from him; that's a proud man. That's what we need, man.”
Stephen Graham - Combo
Andrew Shim - Milky