"[addressing the Congress] Thank you. Napoleon once said when asked to explain the lack of great statesmen in the world, that 'to get power, you need to display absolute pettiness. To exercise power, you need to show true greatness.' Such pettiness and such greatness are rarely found in one person. I look upon the events of the past weeks and I've never come so to grips with that quotation. So, ladies and gentlemen of this Congress, it pains my soul to tell you that you have brought blood and shame under this great dome. Your leadership has raised the stakes of hate to a level where we can no longer separate the demagogue from the truly inspired. And believe this, there are traitors among us. And I'm not talking about those of you who sided against your party leadership. I'm talking about those of you who were patriots to your party but traitors to the necessary end result: That of righteousness, the truth, the concept of making the American dream blind to gender. And you know, I am not free of blame. Right from the start, I should've come down here, pointed a finger your way - pointed a finger your way [pointing at Runyon], and asked you, 'Have you no decency, sir?' Yesterday, I met [he notices Runyon exiting] - Mr. Runyon, you may walk out on me, you may walk out on this body, but you cannot walk out on the will of the American people. Americans are a good people. They're a just people, Mr. Runyon, and they will forgive you, but they will not forget. Hate and ego have no place residing in what my good friend Laine Hanson calls the chapel of democracy."

"[about Rep. Reginald Webster] Well, he may not know his right from his left, but he does know the difference between right and wrong."

"[to Gov. Hathaway] Who doesn't want a shortcut to greatness?"

"I'll die before Shelly Runyon checkmates me."

"[to Gov. Hathaway] You're the future of the Democratic party. And you always will be."

"[after missing a shot while bowling] Well, that's what I get for my Leftist tendencies."

"Principles only mean something if you stick by them when they're inconvenient."

"[closing remarks at Congressional confirmation hearing] Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen of the committee. Remarkably enough, it seems that I have some explaining to do. So, let me be absolutely clear. I stand for a woman's right to choose. I stand for the elimination of the death penalty. I stand for a strong and growing armed forces because we must stomp out genocide on this planet, and I believe that that is a cause worth dying for. I stand for seeing every gun taken out of every home, period. I stand for making the selling of cigarettes to our youth a federal offense. I stand for term limits and campaign reform. And, Mr. Chairman, I stand for the separation of church and state, and the reason that I stand for that is the same reason that I believe our forefathers did. It is not there to protect religion from the grasp of government, but to protect our government from the grasp of religious fanaticism. I may be an atheist, but that does not mean I do not go to church. I do go to church. The church I go to is the one that emancipated the slaves, that gave women the right to vote, that gave us every freedom that we hold dear. My church is this very chapel of Democracy that we sit in together, and I do not need God to tell me what are my moral absolutes. I need my heart, my brain, and this church."

"Kathryn Morris - Special Agent Paige Willomina"

"Mariel Hemingway - Cynthia Charlton Lee"

"Robin Thomas - William Hanson"

"Mike Binder - Lewis Hollis"

"Philip Baker Hall - Oscar Billings"

"Saul Rubinek - Jerry Tolliver"

"William Petersen - Gov. Jack Hathaway"

"Sam Elliott - Kermit Newman"

"Christian Slater - Rep. Reginald Webster"

"Jeff Bridges - President Jackson Evans"

"Gary Oldman - Rep. Sheldon Runyon"

"Joan Allen - Sen. Laine Hanson"

"Molly Shannon - Eve Adams"

"P.J. Byrne - Evan's Staffer #1"

"Catherine Bell - Susan Ortega (uncredited)"

"Maile Flanagan - Mail Person"

"Jon Stewart - Himself"

"Dean Norris - Officer Collins"

"Meagen Fay - Neighbor (woman)"

"Jim Doughan - Neighbor (man)"

"Paul Collins - Congressman Stamp"

"Bruce Gray - Congressman Hughes"

"Madison Mason - Congressman Dodds"

"Harve Presnell - Congressman Burrows"

"Brian Howe - Builder"

"Rachael Harris - Ark Reporter"

"Ed Helms - Ed Carson"

"Johnny Simmons - Dylan Baxter"

"Graham Phillips - Jordan Baxter"

"Jonah Hill - Eugene"

"Wanda Sykes - Rita Daniels"

"Jimmy Bennett - Ryan Baxter"

"John Michael Higgins - Marty Stringer"

"John Goodman - Congressman Long"

"Lauren Graham - Joan Baxter"

"Morgan Freeman - God"

"Steve Carell - Evan Baxter"

"God has a great design. Guess who's building it?"

"Why are all of these animals following Evan Baxter? God only knows."

"Evan help us."

"Flooding into cinemas soon."

"A comedy of Biblical proportions."