"I don't want to know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about the truth. I just want to know the momentary fact about things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual, it's sensual, it's alive. My idea of living sensual facts are you, a home, a country, a world, a universe. In that order. I want to know what I am, not what I should be."

"Julie Andrews - Emily Barham"

"Melvyn Douglas - Admiral William Jessup"

"Sophia Choi - herself"

"John Vargas - Lorenzo Delgado"

"Robert Cicchini - Jimmy Ozio"

"Tony Shalhoub - Eddie Reyes"

"Gia Carides - Cashmere McLeod"

"Larry King - himself"

"Bill Maher - himself"

"Chelcie Ross - Charlie Martin"

"Robert Klein - Norman Asher"

"Mykelti Williamson - Dewayne Smith"

"Allison Janney - Miss Walsh"

"Robert Easton - Dr. Beauregard"

"Rob Reiner - Izzy Rosenblatt"

"Ben L. Jones - Arlen Sporken"

"Geraldo Rivera - himself"

"J. C. Quinn - Uncle Charlie"

"Kevin Cooney - Senator Lawrence Harris"

"Rebecca Walker - March Cunningham"

"Diane Ladd - Mamma Stanton"

"Caroline Aaron - Lucille Kaufman"

"Tommy Hollis - William "Fat Willie" McCollister"

"Charlie Rose - himself"

"Adrian Lester - Henry Burton"

"Billy Bob Thornton - Richard Jemmons"

"Emma Thompson - Susan Stanton"

"Kathy Bates - Libby Holden"

"He was born to run."

"How Much Spin Does It Take To Win?"

"Maura Tierney - Daisy Green"

"John Travolta - Gov./President Jack Stanton"

"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"

"I'm not comparing the players. I don't like the game."

"Comes The Story Of A Man Of The People And The People Who Made In The Man"

"[about Jack Stanton] He's poked his pecker in some sorry trash bins."

"What went down on the way to the top."

"Paul Guilfoyle - Howard Ferguson"

"[while watching Shane] Come back, Shane. Run for president."

"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."

"The only shot we have here is to be perfect."

"That's what these guys do. They love you and then stop lovin' you."

"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."