Slander quotes

“- Peter Parker: Spider-Man wasn't trying to attack the city, he was trying to save it. That's slander.
- J. Jonah Jameson: It is not. I resent that. Slander is spoken. In print, it's libel.”
Tobey Maguire - Peter Parker
J. K. Simmons - J. Jonah Jameson

“Big Tobacco tried to smear Wigand, you bought it. The Wall Street Journal, not exactly a bastion of anti-capitalist sentiment, refutes Big Tobacco's smear campaign as the lowest form of character assassination! And now, even now, when every word of what Wigand has said on our show is printed, the entire deposition of his testimony in a court of...” (continue)(continue reading)
Al Pacino - Lowell Bergman

“I want something embarassing! Something sexual! Little boys, midgets, that sort of thing! Cows! I don't give a goddamn!”

Sam Elliott - Kermit Newman

“I think what Calvin is trying to say is that this Elvira is a person of easy virtue, a purveyor of pulchritude, a one-woman Sodom and Gomorrah, if you will. A slimy, slithering succubus, a concubine, a street walker, a tramp, a slut, a cheap whore!”
Edie McClurg - Chastity Pariah

“- Laine Hanson: Come on, Kermit. If we do that, we are no better than he is.
- Kermit Newman: We are no better than he is!”

Joan Allen - Laine Hanson
Sam Elliott - Kermit Newman

“We'll find dirt. Even if we have to make it up.”
Rip Torn - Bert Langdon

“A military man, especially a commander, should keep a journal. After he's gone, it's the only real defense against the slander that later arises.”
Will Patton - General Bethlehem