Presidency quotes

“- Alistair Hennessey: Hello Eleanor.
- Eleanor Zissou: Is that a new merit badge?
- Alistair Hennessey: Oh, yeah, as a matter of fact it is. I just became a Knight in Portugal, the Presidente gave a special ball...
- Steve Zissou: Don't be nice to Ali, he's my nemesis.”
Jeff Goldblum - Alistair Hennessey
Anjelica Huston - Eleanor Zissou
Bill Murray - Steve Zissou

“- Sy Spector: Bill said you used to be with the Secret Service.
- Frank Farmer: That's right.
- Sy Spector: Ever guard the main man?
- Frank Farmer: I was two years with Carter, four with Reagan.
- Sy Spector: Reagan got shot!
- Frank Farmer: Not on my shift.”
Gary Kemp - Sy Spector
Kevin Costner - Frank Farmer

“- The President: How dare you come in here and lecture me!
- Jack Ryan: How dare you, sir!
- The President: How dare you come into this office and bark at me like some little junkyard dog? I am the President of the United States!”
Donald Moffat - The President
Harrison Ford - Jack Ryan

“Sandurz, Sandurz. You got to help me. I don't know what to do. I can't make decisions. I'm a president!”

Mel Brooks - President Skroob

“The government has been mismanaged. I will lend the money, but only on condition that His Excellency withdraw and place the government in new hands.”

Margaret Dumont - Mrs. Gloria Teasdale

“- Sydney Ellen Wade: Oh. Your father's on the phone with his dentist?
- Lucy Shepherd: No, he told me to tell you he's on the phone with his dentist. He wants you to think he's a regular guy.
- Sydney Ellen Wade: Oh. Well, who's he on the phone with?
- Lucy Shepherd: The prime minister of Israel.”

Annette Bening - Sydney Ellen Wade
Shawna Waldron - Lucy Shepherd

“- Bob Alexander: I'm going to kill him.
- Alan Reed: You can't kill a President.
- Bob Alexander: He's not a President. He's an ordinary person. I can kill an ordinary person.”
Frank Langella - Bob Alexander
Kevin Dunn - Alan Reed

“The President addressed a joint session of Congress yesterday. He said he wasn't gonna back down on the blockade. I don't know which was scarier, the speech or the Congress cheering it. He evoked Lincoln. Whenever a president is gonna get us into serious trouble, they always use Lincoln.”
James McEachin - Victor Milson

“Let's say one group of people, like the American people, pay you $400,000 a year to be president of the United States. But then another group of people invest in you, your friends, and their related businesses, $ 1.4 billion over a number of years. Who are you gonna like? Who's your daddy?”
Michael Francis Moore - Narrator

“- Capt. MacCandless: Get out of my office before I arrest you.
- Villano: You'd need a presidential order to arrest me.
- Capt. MacCandless: I don't give a damn if you're personally giving the president head! Get the fuck out of my office!”
Louis Gossett Jr. - Capt. MacCandless
Sir John Hurt - Villano

“- Kenny O'Donnell: That's going to be tough, you know how these guys are about their chains of command.
- John F. Kennedy: Listen, you tell 'em those chains of command end at one place: me.”

Kevin Costner - Kenny O'Donnell
Bruce Greenwood - John F. Kennedy

“- Hillary Flammond: My uncle was born in America.
- Nick Rivers: Oh, really?
- Hillary Flammond: But he was one of the lucky ones. He managed to escape in a balloon during the Jimmy Carter presidency.”
Lucy Gutteridge - Hillary Flammond
Val Kilmer - Nick Rivers

“- Ellen Mitchell: What do you do for a living?
- Dave Kovic: When I'm not running the country?
- Ellen Mitchell: Yeah.
- Dave Kovic: I run a temp agency. You know, secretaries and stuff.
- Ellen Mitchell: So you find people jobs.”

Sigourney Weaver - Ellen Mitchell
Kevin Kline - Dave Kovic

“- Fauna Flood: The stars say that you are going to be, oh... that you are going to be President of the United States!
- Mack: I don't believe it.
- Hazel: I don't want to be no President!
- Fauna Flood: You got no choice; the stars have spoken. You'll just have to go to Washington.
- Hazel: But I don't want to! I don't know nobody there!”
Audra Lindley - Fauna Flood
M. Emmet Walsh - Mack
Frank McRae - Hazel

“- Herbert Arthur Runcible Cadbury: Excuse me, sir. It's a telephone call, from the President.
- Richard Rich Sr.: Which country?
- Herbert Arthur Runcible Cadbury: This one, sir.
- Richard Rich Sr.: Probably needs another loan.”
Jonathan Hyde - Herbert Arthur Runcible Cadbury
Edward Herrmann - Richard Rich

“Listen, buster, you endangered my children. And you didn't do it for anything as noble as The People. The only time you even see The People is when you look down to see what it is you're stepping on.”
Bonnie Bedelia - Holly McClane

“This is language. A new vocabulary, the likes of which the world has never seen! This is President Kennedy communicating with Secretary Khrushchev!”
Dylan Baker - Robert McNamara

“- President: I want to thank you back there for saving my life. If there's anything you want... anything at all...
- Snake Plissken: Just a moment of your time.
- President: Of course... Yes?
- Snake Plissken: We did get you out. But a lot of people died in the process. I just wondered how you felt about it.
- President: Well, I... I wanna thank...” (continue)(continue reading)
Donald Pleasence - President
Kurt Russell - Snake Plissken

- President Matt Douglas: A cookbook. He wrote a cookbook. How dare he?
- Joanna: Well, you know, when he was President, he did cook for his guests all the time.
- President Matt Douglas: That's not the point. Did George Washington write a book called "Your Wooden Teeth and You?" Did William Howard Taft write "Thirty Days To A Slimmer Ass?" It's... (continue)(continue reading)
James Garner - President Matt Douglas
Marg Helgenberger - Joanna

“- Casey Alexander: Not only do you have no witnesses, but everyone thinks you saved the President.
- Atteron: Exactly.”
Keith Vitali - Casey Alexander
Luke Askew - Atteron

“George Washington was in a cult, and the cult was into aliens, man.”
Rory Cochrane - Slater

“- Sydney Ellen Wade: How'd you finally do it?
- President Andrew Shepherd: Do what?
- Sydney Ellen Wade: Manage to give a woman flowers and be President at the same time?
- President Andrew Shepherd: Well, it turns out I've got a rose garden.”
Annette Bening - Sydney Ellen Wade
Michael Douglas - President Andrew Shepherd

“This single-bullet explanation is the foundation of the Warren Commission's claim of one assassin. And once you conclude the magic bullet couldn't create all seven wounds, you must conclude there was a fourth shot and a second rifleman. And if there was a second rifleman, then by definition there had to be a conspiracy.”

Kevin Costner - Jim Garrison

“Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the V.P. is such a V.I.P., shouldn't we keep the P.C. on the Q.T.? 'Cause if it leaks to the V.C. he could end up M.I.A., and then we'd all be put out in K.P.”

Robin Williams - Adrian Cronauer

“- President Russell P. Kramer: I was Time Magazine's Man of the Year.
- President Matt Douglas: So was Hitler.
- President Russell P. Kramer: Not twice.”
Jack Lemmon - President Russell P. Kramer
James Garner - President Matt Douglas