118 quotes found
"Well, there were three of them; it was like being slapped around by a Pakistani vaudeville team."
"You know you've reached rock bottom when you're told you have character flaws by a man who hanged his predecessor in a military coup."
"These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world... and then we fucked up the end game."
"Thats how a cold war turns into a real war and that's something you want to keep a very good eye on."
"A boy is given a horse on his 14th birthday. Everyone in the village says, “Oh how wonderful.” But a Zen master who lives in the village says, “We'll see.” 'The boy falls off the horse and breaks his foot. Everyone in the village says, “Oh how awful.” The Zen master says, “We'll see.” The village is thrown into war and all the young men have to go to war. But, because of the broken foot, the boy stays behind. Everyone says, “Oh, how wonderful.” The Zen master says, “We'll see.”"
"My loyalty? For 24 years people have been trying to kill me, people who know how. Now do you think that's because my dad was a Greek soda pop maker or because I'm an American spy? Go fuck yourself, you fucking child!"
"I'm gonna do something really outrageous: I'm gonna tell the truth."
"We can do incredible things. We can change this country. I'm gonna win this thing. Look me in the eye, Henry, and tell me that you don't want to be a part of it."
"You don't think Abraham Lincoln was a whore before he was a president? He had to tell his little stories and smile his shit-eating back country grin, and he did it all just so he could have the opportunity to one day stand before the nation and appeal to the better angels of our nature. And that's where the bullshit stops. That's what it's all about — so we have the opportunity to do it the right way. You know as well as I do, that plenty of people playing this game, they don't think that way. They're willing to sell their souls, crawl through sewers, lie to people, divide them, play on their worst fears for nothing! Just for the prize."
"[speaking at Libby's funeral] Most of us here grew up with Libby Holden. She was our friend. She was our big sister. She bullied us, went after us, and worst of all, she remembered everything about us. All those young promises made, everything we wanted to be, everything we wanted the world to be — she remembered them all in the original wording. She wrote me a note before she died. [fighting tears as he reads it] "I am so fucking disappointed in you. Shape up!" I am so sorry that I disappointed her, and I am so sorry that I can't stand before her and promise to do better. She lent us all her warmth, her idealism, her madness. She had the most amazing heart."
"Your grandfather was a great man. Jack Stanton could also be a great man, if he wasn't such a faithless, thoughtless, disorganized, undisciplined shit."
"The only shot we have here is to be perfect."
"The media giveth, and go fuck yourself"
"You just called me a redneck, which I'm proud to say I am, and you, Hodgkiss, are a honky! You just look black, and it's the best part of ya! Lets you intimidate the palefaces, especially lib-labs, and lets ya work that voodoo sexual shit on white girls. Well, I'm probably blacker than you are. I got some slave in me. I can feel it."
"That's what these guys do. They love you and then stop lovin' you."
"From now on you can call me the Dust Buster — I'm stronger than dirt!"
"[holding a gun to a political adversary's crotch] I am a gay lesbian woman — I do not mythologize the male sexual organ. I know you did it. It wasn't enough sticking with the crap Jack actually did — you had to get creative! Well, mister, you're about to become missus!"
"[about Jack Stanton] He's poked his pecker in some sorry trash bins."
"[while watching Shane] Come back, Shane. Run for president."
"I'm not comparing the players. I don't like the game."
"They're Not Exactly A Well Organized Well-Oiled Machine, But That's Their Secret."
"Comes The Story Of A Man Who Says Yes To Destiny But Couldn't Say No To Anything Else"
"Comes The Story Of A Man Of The People And The People Who Made In The Man"
"What went down on the way to the top."
"He was born to run."
"How Much Spin Does It Take To Win?"
"John Travolta - Gov./President Jack Stanton"
"Emma Thompson - Susan Stanton"
"Adrian Lester - Henry Burton"
"Billy Bob Thornton - Richard Jemmons"
"Kathy Bates - Libby Holden"
"Maura Tierney - Daisy Green"
"Paul Guilfoyle - Howard Ferguson"
"Larry Hagman - Governor Fred Picker"
"Stacy Edwards - Jennifer Rogers"
"Diane Ladd - Mamma Stanton"
"Kevin Cooney - Senator Lawrence Harris"
"Rebecca Walker - March Cunningham"
"Caroline Aaron - Lucille Kaufman"
"Tommy Hollis - William "Fat Willie" McCollister"
"Rob Reiner - Izzy Rosenblatt"
"Ben L. Jones - Arlen Sporken"
"J. C. Quinn - Uncle Charlie"
"Allison Janney - Miss Walsh"
"Robert Klein - Norman Asher"
"Mykelti Williamson - Dewayne Smith"
"Robert Easton - Dr. Beauregard"
"Geraldo Rivera - himself"
"Charlie Rose - himself"
"Larry King - himself"
"Chelcie Ross - Charlie Martin"
"Tony Shalhoub - Eddie Reyes"
"John Vargas - Lorenzo Delgado"
"Robert Cicchini - Jimmy Ozio"
"Gia Carides - Cashmere McLeod"
"Bill Maher - himself"
"Sophia Choi - herself"
"I think the signing of a nuclear disarmament pact with the Soviet Union is at best an act of naivete, and at worst an unsupportable negligence. We've stayed alive because we've built up an arsenal, and we've kept the peace because we've dealt with an enemy who knew we would use that arsenal. And now we're asked to believe that a piece of paper will take the place of missile sites and Polaris submarines, and that an enemy who hasn't honored one solemn treaty in the history of its existence will now, for our convenience, do precisely that. I have strong doubts, gentlemen."
"There hasn't been a single piece of paper written in the history of mankind that could serve as a deterrent to a Pearl Harbor. I sometimes wonder why we haven't learned that lesson by now. Every 20 years or so we have to pick ourselves up off the floor bleeding and pay for that mistake. Those mistakes are delivered to us C.O.D. by peace loving men. And bought and paid for with the lives of other men. Men in uniform."
"[introducing his dog Trimmer to Col. Casey] Trimmer is a very political dog. He doesn't have many principles, but he's loyal to his friends."
"All you've got to know is this: right now the government of the United States is sitting on top of the Washington Monument, right on the very point, tilting right and left and ready to fall off and break up on the pavement. There are just a handful of men that can prevent it. And you're one of them."
"You stay put right here... I'm going to phone the White House. Tell you what, friend: when this is over you can take off your girdle and have yourself a real good cry. Say, uh, you got a dime to stop a revolution with?"
"Jordy Boy, right now, short of a Confederate miracle, you're going to be walking in a parade with both your legs cut off. But I'm not going to make matters worse by getting drunk on the job."
"Yes, I know who Judas was. He was a man I worked for and admired until he disgraced the four stars on his uniform."
"I'll make you two promises: a very good steak, medium rare, and the truth, which is very rare."
"Senator Frederick Prentice: Ah, it's as simple as this: the President trusts Russia, and the American people don't. The people don't believe the Russians're going to take those bombs apart on July 1st, and neither do I."
"Colonel William "Mutt" Henderson: We seem to spend more time training for seizure than for prevention, like the Commies already had the stuff, and we had to get it back."
"Christopher Todd: That could easily mean another place. These military games... why, the multiplicity of our secret bases confuses ourselves more than the Soviets."
"I'm suggesting Mr President, there's a military plot to take over the Government of these United States, next Sunday..."
"Burt Lancaster - General James Mattoon Scott"
"Kirk Douglas - Colonel Jiggs Casey"
"Fredric March - President Jordan Lyman"
"Ava Gardner - Eleanor Holbrook"
"Edmond O'Brien - Senator Raymond Clark"
"Martin Balsam - Paul Girard"
"Andrew Duggan - Colonel Mutt Henderson"
"Hugh Marlowe - Harold McPherson"
"Whit Bissell - Senator Frederick Prentice"
"Helen Kleeb - Esther Townsend"
"George Macready - Christopher Todd"
"Richard Anderson - Colonel Ben Murdock"
"Bart Burns - Art Corwin"
"I’ll raise my head for the tricolour and I’ll raise my voice for the common people."
"Who gave birth to Pakistan? Who broke our country into pieces in 1947? If Sardar Patel, instead of Nehru, was our PM then neither would we have have lost the war with China nor would have Pakistan taken half of Kashmir away nor would our brave soldiers have lost their lives because of terrorism."
"Narrator: Namo Namo gunjega is desh mein (Namo Namo will echo throughout this country)."
"Minister: I’m going crazy and it’s Modi who is driving me crazy. He doesn’t get bribed nor allows anyone else to. He doesn’t sleep and doesn’t let others too."
"Vivek Oberoi – Narendra Modi"
"Boman Irani – Ratan Tata"
"Manoj Joshi – Amit Shah"
"Kishori Shahane – Indira Gandhi"
"Sonu Sood – Rahul Gandhi"
"Zarina Wahab – Hiraben Modi"
"Imran Hasnee – Zafar"
"Barkha Bisht Sengupta – Jashodaben Modi"
"[Hello. Ragini, this issue was long forgotten. All the debates have been done. So why dig up old graves now?] Old graves... Asking questions about the death of the 2nd Prime Minister of Independent India, Mr. Lal Bahadur Shashtri...and demanding the truth is digging up old graves for you? Not for me."
"I just want the truth to be out there. Don't we have any right to the truth?"
"Who Killed Shastri?"
"Naseeruddin Shah as PKR Natrajan"
"Mithun Chakraborty as Shyam Sunder Tripathi"
"Shweta Basu Prasad as Raagini Phule"
"Mandira Bedi as Indira Joseph Roy"
"Pallavi Joshi as Aiysha Ali Shah"
"Rajesh Sharma as Omkar Kashyap"
"Vinay Pathak as Mukhtar"
"Pankaj Tripathi as Gangaram Jha"
"Vishwa Mohan Badola as Justice Kurian Abraham"
"Prakash Belawadi as GK Anantha Suresh"
"Achint Kaur as Mrs. Natarajan"
"Yusuf Hussain"
"Prashant Gupta as Vivendra Pratap Singh Rana"
"Ankur Rathee as Imran Qureshi"
"Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Bal Thackeray"
"In the war of 1857 Hindus and Muslims fought together. Because the nation is above religion. Mazzini united Italy. We'll create undivided India."
"The sea washes the feet of Mother India. It will take me across the world and back to you."
"After the British leave, if they conspire to turn India into a Mughal empire again we won't let the Mughals rule over us again."
"Join the military. Get trained..."
"All those who love Hind are Hindus. Long live undivided India."
"Violence can lead to revolution, but not to the correct solution."