Presidency quotes

“He's not a regular person, he's the next fucking President of the United fucking States!”

J. K. Simmons - Bill Dixon

“My name is Gary Hart and I'm running for President.”
Hugh Jackman - Gary Hart

“I could write a reboot sequence and shut down the entire system. And at that point... you could encode a new president.”
William Fichtner - John Carlyle

“- 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

“They can rebuild the White House, but they will never forget me. Not ever.”

Sean Penn - Samuel J. Bicke

“The President actively sanctioned the deaths of hundreds of millions of people, and lied to the public. I am proud to be responsible for his impeachment, and I will do everything I can to ensure a smooth transition of power.”
Emily Watson - Chief of Staff Fox

“You know, the only couple I knew that both Kennedy and LBJ wanted to socialize with was you and your husband.”

Tom Hanks - Ben Bradlee

“You gotta rob to get rich in the Reagan era.”
Wesley Snipes - Nino Brown

“I had the chicken pox when Herbert Hoover was in the White House.”
Marian Seldes - Mrs. Hess

“- Dean Armitage: By the way, I would have voted for Obama for a third term, if I could. Best President in my lifetime, hands down.
- Chris Washington: I agree.”
Bradley Whitford - Dean Armitage
Daniel Kaluuya - Chris Washington

“- Cale: You are a goddamn traitor, sir.
- Raphelson: Now when the country finds out that your beloved President helped a maniac open the nuclear football, who do think they'll believe? Now you would be a nobody, whereas I am the President of the United States.
- President Sawyer: Oh no, you're not!”
Channing Tatum - Cale
Richard Jenkins - Raphelson
Jamie Foxx - President Sawyer

“- Martin Luther King Jr.: We need your involvement here, Mr. President. We deserve your help as citizens of this country. Citizens under attack.
- President Lyndon B. Johnson: Now, you listen to me. You listen to me. You're an activist. I'm a politician. You got one big issue. I got a hundred and one.”
David Oyelowo - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tom Wilkinson - President Lyndon B. Johnson

“- Adrian Cronauer: How would you describe your testicles?
- Richard Nixon: That they're soft and they're very shallow and they serve no purpose.
- Adrian Cronauer: So what are you saying, sir?
- Richard Nixon: They lack the physical strength.”

Robin Williams - Adrian Cronauer
Richard Milhous Nixon - Richard Nixon

“The people of this nation can stomach quite a bit. But the one thing they can't stomach is the image of a vice president with a mouthful of cock.”
Sam Elliott - Kermit Newman

“McCarthy was a friend of mine. Whether he went overboard or not, he was of value to his country. A number of liberals think he started the witch-hunt. I think he was witch-hunted himself.”
John Wayne On Joseph McCarthy

“- Daniel Ellsberg: If the public ever saw these papers they would turn against the war. Covert ops, guaranteed debt, rigged elections? It's all in there. Ike, Kennedy, Johnson... they violated the Geneva Convention. They lied to Congress and they lied to the public. They knew we couldn't win and still sent boys to die.
- Ben Bagdikian: What...” (continue)(continue reading)
Matthew Rhys - Daniel Ellsberg
Bob Odenkirk - Ben Bagdikian

“Can you believe that a straight man to a chimpanzee is going to be the next President of the United States? I mean, doesn't that depress you?”

Jim Belushi - Dr. Rock

“I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that.”
Britney Spears - Britney Spears

“I never wanted fame. I just became a Kennedy.”
Natalie Portman - Jackie Kennedy

“- Leonard Dekkom: How the hell did you...
- President Andrew Palma: How? Because I'm the goddamn President of the United States of America!”
Ed Harris - Leonard Dekkom
Andy Garcia - President Andrew Palma

It's wonderful! Listen. Listen to this! "Although he doesn't vote and never has, Tyrone has no modesty about his own political potential. If I was the president, he says, I could fix the world in 30 seconds. I sent everybody pussy and they don't have no time for trouble". It's terrific. It's first rate. It's a real breakthrough! Let it change... (continue)(continue reading)

Andre Gregory - Ted Avery

“Gentleman, ladies: what if Superman had decided to fly down, rip off the roof of the White House, and grab the president right out of the Oval Office. Who would'a stopped him?”
David Harbour - White House Representative

Take a magic marker, cross out the word "Objectivity". Your constituents want you for your opinions, your philosophy, for your subjectivity.
Gary Leonard Oldman - Shelly Runyon

“A First Lady must always be ready to pack her suitcases. It's inevitable.”
Natalie Portman - Jackie Kennedy

“You left your mark on this country, Mrs. Kennedy. These past few days, that the story. Losing a president is like... It's like losing a father. And you were a mother to all of us, and that's a very good story.”
Billy Crudup - The Journalist