Presidency quotes

“Somewhere in Libya right now, a janitor's working the night shift at Libyan Intelligence Headquarters. He's going about doing his job... because he has no idea, in about an hour he's going to die in a massive explosion. He's just going about his job, because he has no idea that about an hour ago I gave an order to have him killed. You've just...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Douglas - President Andrew Shepherd

“[the President calls the Soviet Premier]
Hello?... Uh... Hello D- uh hello Dmitri? Listen uh uh I can't hear too well. Do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little? … Oh-ho, that's much better... yeah... huh... yes... Fine, I can hear you now, Dmitri... Clear and plain and coming through fine... I'm coming through fine, too, eh?......” (continue)(continue reading)
Peter Sellers - President Merkin Muffley

“- Adm. Chester W. Nimitz: Mr. President, with all respect, sir. What you're asking can't be done.
[the president attempts to disengage his wheelchair leg braces and stand]
- George: [tries to aid the president] Mr. President...
- Roosevelt: Get back, George. Get back. [struggles to stand but is able to stand erect] Do not tell me it can't be done.”

Graham Beckel - Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
Howard Mungo - George
Jon Voight - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“When we do have free time, the last thing we want is complicated analysis of our government, lobbying, international trade agreements, and tax bills. So it's no surprise that when a monotone bureaucratic Vice President came to power we hardly noticed. As he achieved a position of authority that very few leaders in the history of America ever...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jesse Plemons - Kurt

“You criticize without understanding. You seek only to address your own personal feelings. That is selfish thinking, Zindzi. It does not serve the nation.”
Morgan Freeman - Nelson Mandela

Jefferson's an American saint because he wrote the words, "All men are created equal." Words he clearly didn't believe, since he allowed his own children to live in slavery. He was a rich wine snob who was sick of paying taxes to the Brits. So yeah, he wrote some lovely words and aroused the rabble, and they went out and died for those words,... (continue)(continue reading)
Brad Pitt - Jackie

“I'm a bad guy because I sing some rock-and-roll songs, and who's a bigger influence, the President or Marilyn Manson? I'd like to think me, but I'm going to go with the President.”
Marilyn Manson - Himself

“- Pvt. Trip: I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.
- Pvt. Jupiter Sharts: What ya doin' since then?
- Pvt. Trip: I run for President. [laughter] I didn't win though.”
Denzel Washington - Pvt. Trip
Jihmi Kennedy - Pvt. Jupiter Sharts

“There are certain things you should expect from a president. I ought to care more about you than I do about me... I ought to care more about what's right than I do about what's popular. I ought to be willing to give this whole thing up for something I believe in.”
Kevin Kline - Bill Mitchell

“Don't do that with the liquor, Russ. It's so... George Bush.”
Lauren Bacall - Margaret Kramer

“- President Andrew Shepherd: Do you think there will ever be a time when you can stand in a room with me and not think of me as the President?
- Sydney Ellen Wade: This isn't a state of mind. You are the President. And when I'm in a room with you, oval or any other shape, I'm always gonna be a lobbyist, and you're always gonna be the...” (continue)(continue reading)

Michael Douglas - President Andrew Shepherd
Annette Bening - Sydney Ellen Wade

“How do you have patience for people who claim they love America, but clearly can't stand Americans?”

Annette Bening - Sydney Ellen Wade

“- John Spartan: Hold it. The Schwarzenegger Library?
- Lenina Huxley: Yes. The Schwarzenegger Presidential Library. Wasn't he an actor when you...?
- John Spartan: Stop! He was President?
- Lenina Huxley: Yes! Even though he was not born in this country, his popularity at the time caused the 61st Amendment which states...
- John Spartan: I don't...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sylvester Stallone - John Spartan
Sandra Bullock - Lenina Huxley

“But that wife of his, Eleanor... big dyke! Huge dyke. A real rug muncher. Looked like a big lesbian mule.”

Ellen Albertini Dow - Grandma Mary Cleary

- Sydney Ellen Wade: Two hundred pairs of eyes are focused on you with two questions on their minds: "who's this girl", and "why is the President dancing with her?".
- President Andrew Shepherd: Well, first of all, the two hundred pairs of eyes aren't focused on me. They're focused on you. And the answers are Sydney Ellen Wade, and because she... (continue)(continue reading)
Annette Bening - Sydney Ellen Wade
Michael Douglas - President Andrew Shepherd

“Is there anything as pathetic as an ex-president?”
Xander Berkeley - Hammond

“- A.J. MacInerney: The President doesn't answer to you, Lewis!
- Lewis Rothschild: Oh, yes he does A.J. I'm a citizen, this is my President. And in this country it is not only permissible to question our leaders it's our responsibility!”

Martin Sheen - A.J. MacInerney
Michael J. Fox - Lewis Rothschild

“Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!”
Peter Sellers - President Merkin Muffley

“I'm the President and, as they say, the buck stops here. So I take full responsibility for each one of my illegal actions. But that's not the whole story. I think the American people are entitled to the real truth. I have here evidence in the form of notes, letters, and written memoranda, proving that Bob Alexander was involved in each of these...” (continue)(continue reading)

Kevin Kline - Bill Mitchell

“Trump says he wants to run for president. Why not? It wouldn't be the first time he pushed a black family out of their home.”
Snoop Dogg

“Presidents who obsess over history obsess about their place in it, instead of forging it.”
Kevin Spacey - Francis Underwood

“Teen Lydia-We all know I’m not special.
Teen Emily-I didn’t say that.
Teen Lydia-It’s fine though. You don’t know how life is going to go. And I could be the president, getting chauffeured in fancy limousines.”
Tai Leshaun - Teen Emily
Mia Kaplan - Teen Lydia

“The President skillfully placates the situation with some soothing incendiary comments.”
Laurence Fishburne - Narrator

“President? My big toe would make a better President!”
Burt Lancaster - J.J. Hunsecker

“Where am I? What year is it? Is the Rock president?”
Ben Schwartz - Sonic