Presidency quotes

“- News Reporter: Mr. Vanderhoff, would you care to comment on the rumor that President Roosevelt has been assassinated?
- Vincent Vanderhoff: Guys, how am I supposed to know that? I haven't been upstairs yet. Excuse me.”

Fred Willard - Vincent Vanderhoff

“I have the dubious honour of being Vice-Captain, which is kind of like being runner-up at the Miss Universe beauty pageant. I get to take over if Miss St Martha's becomes ill or gets involved in a sex scandal.”
Pia Miranda - Josie Alibrandi

“- President Lindberg: Mrs. Dallas, this is the President. On behalf of the federation, I would like to thank you...
- Korben's Mother: Oh, please. That doesn't even sound like him! The President's an idiot, you don't sound like an idiot.”
Tommy 'Tiny' Lister - President Lindberg

“There will be great progress. There will be other great presidents. The Johnsons have been so generous to me. But there won't be another Camelot. Not another Camelot.”

Natalie Portman - Jackie Kennedy

“There's already been one radical in the White House. I don't believe it could survive another.”
Bob Hoskins - J. Edgar Hoover

“I have the authority! I am the commander in chief of the United States, and I say when we go to war!”

Bruce Greenwood - John F. Kennedy

“- A.J. MacInerney: Mr.President, this is an election year. If you're looking for female companionship, we can make certain arrangements that will ensure total privacy.
- President Andrew Shepherd: I don't want you to get me a girl, A.J.! What is this, Vegas?
- A.J. MacInerney: No sir, this is the White House.”
Martin Sheen - A.J. MacInerney
Michael Douglas - President Andrew Shepherd

“As the President of the United States, this comes with the full weight, power and authority of my office. Fuck you.”

Jamie Foxx - President Sawyer

“- Raphelson: You can't do this! I am still the President of the United States!
- President Sawyer: Then consider this a coup d'état!”
Richard Jenkins - Raphelson
Jamie Foxx - President Sawyer

“- Elliot Carver: Mr. Wallace, call the president. Tell him if he doesn't sign the bill lowering the cable rates, we will release the video of him with the cheerleader in the Chicago motel room.
- Tom Wallace: Inspired, sir.
- Elliot Carver: And after he signs the bill, release the tape anyway.
- Tom Wallace: Consider him slimed.”
Jonathan Pryce - Elliot Carver
Michael G. Wilson - Tom Wallace

“- Mouth: [examining coins in the well] President Lincoln... George Washington... Martin Sheen...
- Stef: Martin Sheen? That's President Kennedy, you idiot!
- Mouth: Well, same difference. I mean, he played Kennedy once.”
Corey Feldman - Mouth
Martha Plimpton - Stef

When the second plane hit the tower, his chief of staff entered the classroom and told Mr. Bush the nation is under attack. Not knowing what to do, with no one telling him what to do, and with no secret service rushing in to take him to safety, Mr. Bush just sat there, and continued to read "My Pet Goat" with the children.

Michael Francis Moore - Michael Moore

“Presidents don't threaten. They don't have to.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“- Marguerite Oswald: I am responsible for two presidents.
- Robert Oswald: I'm sorry?
- Marguerite Oswald: Kennedy and now President Johnson. I'm not even a Democrat.”
Jacki Weaver - Marguerite Oswald
James Badge Dale - Robert Oswald

“Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot. ”
Edgar Bergen

Before the Civil War, the states were all separate. People used to say "United States are". Wasn't until the war ended, people started saying "The United States is". Under Lincoln, we became one nation.
Nicolas Cage - Ben Gates

“It's the first time that the secret service has lost a president under its watch.”
Tom Welling - Roy Kellerman

“In a time, not so very long ago, when the world still allowed itself secrets, Franklin Roosevelt was mine.”
Laura Linney - Daisy

“- Pu Yi - 15 Years: Who is this George Washington?
- Reginald 'R. J.' Johnston: A famous American, your majesty. A revolutionary general, the first American president.
- Pu Yi - 15 Years: Like Mr. Lenin in Russia?
- Reginald 'R. J.' Johnston: Not quite.”
Tao Wu - Pu Yi - 15 Years
Peter O'Toole - Reginald 'R. J.' Johnston

“The President has nothing further to communicate. Good day, sir.”

Alexander Knox - Woodrow Wilson

“- Ernest Paxton: Mr. Mason, I'm Special Agent-in-Charge Ernest Paxton.
- John Patrick Mason: In charge of what? Fucking me over for another three decades?
- Ernest Paxton: I don't know anything about your previous matters. We've brought you here because there's a situation that we think you can help us with.
- John Patrick Mason: And what might...” (continue)(continue reading)

William Forsythe - Ernest Paxton
Sir Sean Connery - John Patrick Mason

“- Asian journalist: Mr. President, what place do you think you will have in history?
- George W. Bush: History? In history we'll all be dead!”
Josh Brolin - George W. Bush

“- Bill: Okay, Ted, George Washington. One: the father of our country.
- Ted: Two: born on President's Day.
- Bill: Three: the dollar-bill guy.”

Alex Winter - Bill S. Preston
Keanu Reeves - Ted 'Theodore' Logan

“Are you trying to shit me, George Wallace? Are you trying to fuck over your president?”
Tom Wilkinson - President Lyndon B. Johnson

“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