Presidency quotes

“- Mitch Wilkinson: Your great-great granddaddy planned the assassination of President Lincoln.
- Patrick Gates: It can't be.”
Ed Harris - Mitch Wilkinson
Nicolas Cage - Ben Gates

“- Meryl Brooks: Come on, I've known you since Brownies, and the only time I ever saw you cry was when Bush won.
- Lucy Kelson: Which one?
- Meryl Brooks: Well, both of them.”
Heather Burns - Meryl Brooks
Sandra Bullock - Lucy Kelson

“Did you know, Helen, that more books have been written about Jack the Ripper than Abraham Lincoln? It's a sick world, isn't it, Helen?”
William McNamara - Peter Foley

“- Mission Control: President's calling, Buckaroo.
- Buckaroo Banzai: The president of what?
- Mission Control: The president of the United States.
- Buckaroo Banzai: Oh.”
Kent Perkins - Mission Control
Peter Weller - Buckaroo Banzai

“- Dan Packard: Do you know why I'm going to Washington tonight? Because the President wants to consult me about the affairs of the nation. That's why.
- Kitty Packard: What's the matter with them?
- Dan Packard: Everything's the matter with them. That's why he's sending for me.”
Wallace Beery - Dan Packard
Jean Harlow - Kitty Packard

“- Bobby Ciaro: Someday, your gonna be president of the United States.
- Jimmy Hoffa: Fuck that. Someday, I'm gonna be president of the Teamsters.”

Danny DeVito - Bobby Ciaro
Jack Nicholson - James R. Hoffa

“- Dr. Emmett Brown: Then tell me, future boy, who's President of the United States in 1985?
- Marty McFly: Ronald Reagan.
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Ronald Reagan? The actor?”
Chris Lloyd - Dr. Emmett Brown
Michael J. Fox - Marty McFly

“What's the big deal, presidents don't write their own speeches...”

Kelli Garner - Barb

“- John McClane: I want you to get a hold of a guy named Cobb. Walter Cobb. C-o-b-b. He's the head of my police unit. Get him down here. Find him. Tell him you were with John McClane. And tell him to find out who the 21st president was.
- Jerry Parks: Chester A. Arthur.
- John McClane: What?
- Jerry Parks: Chester A. Arthur. 1881 to 1885....” (continue)(continue reading)
Bruce Willis - John McClane
Joe Zaloom - Jerry Parks

“Jimmy Carter was President of the United States when everybody started to notice we were running out of dead dinosaurs. No more gas to run our cars. Fights at the pump. People getting nozzle-whipped. So what was his solution? He made a speech.”
George Carlin - Narrator

“- Malaina: I think JFK's a sweet potato.
- Pudge: Oh Malaina he's an old man!
- Malaina: I don't care, I'd have an affair with him outside of marriage.”
Bridget Fonda - Melaina
Annabeth Gish - Pudge

“The President does tend to expect the impossible.”
George Wilson - Jim Richardson

Today the president closed the nation's last remaining submarine base at Groton, Connecticut. When asked why he had made the startling decision the president responded, "Those funny little black ships just keep sinking anyway".
Jim Hess - TV Reporter

“They can't impeach me for bombing Cambodia. The president can bomb anybody he likes.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“One pod left and three of us and I'm the President. Well, boys, it's a very lovely ship. I think you should go down with it.”

Mel Brooks - President Skroob

President Roosevelt was a successful graduate of EST, Scientology, TM and Primal Grope Therapy. And he was elected on a platform unique in American political history: "I'm not a schmuck!". Even though that was Chet's only campaign promise, it looked like it would be a tough one to keep.
George Carlin - Narrator

“- Mactilburgh: It's an honor to meet you sir!
- President Lindberg: Yes, it is.”
Christopher Fairbank - Mactilburgh
Tommy 'Tiny' Lister - President Lindberg

“- James St. James: Who was Richard Nixon's chief of staff during the final days of Watergate?
- Carl Taylor: Oprah Winfrey.”
Emilio Estevez - James St. James
Charlie Sheen - Carl Taylor

“What President wants to be in office when it comes crashing down around him?”
Arliss Howard - John C. Calhoun

“- William Strannix: These things are gonna sell like hotcakes!
- Commander Krill: Absolutely.
- William Strannix: What are you gonna do when you get two hundred million dollars in the bank?
- Commander Krill: Buy the presidency!”

Tommy Lee Jones - William Strannix
Gary Busey - Commander Krill

“- President Andrew Shepherd: When we're out of the office, and alone, you can call me Andy.
- A.J. MacInerney: I beg your pardon, sir?
- President Andrew Shepherd: You were the best man at my wedding, for crying out loud. Call me Andy.
- A.J. MacInerney: Whatever you say, Mr. President.”
Michael Douglas - President Andrew Shepherd
Martin Sheen - A.J. MacInerney

“Mister President, we must not allow a mine shaft gap!”
George C. Scott - Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson

“- Young Student: You can't stop it, can you? Even if you wanted to. Because it's not you, it's the system. The system won't let you stop it.
- Richard M. Nixon: There's... there's more at stake here than what you want, or what I want.
- Young Student: Then what's the point? What's the point of being President? You're powerless!”

Joanna Going - Young Student
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“Hello, Mr. President. Alex, what a suprise. I get to kill two for the price of one!”
David Patrick Kelly - Tommy Ray Glatman

“- Lt. Steven Hauk: The former V.P. is a good man and a decent man.
- Gen. Taylor: Bullshit! I know Nixon personally. He lugs a trainload of shit behind him that could fertilize the Sinai. Why, I wouldn't buy an apple from the son of a bitch, and I consider him a good, close personal friend.”
Bruno Kirby - Lt. Steven Hauk
Noble Willingham - Gen. Taylor