"I forgot that I was hired to do a job for you and that it was just a temp job at that. I forgot that I had two hundred and fifty million people who were paying me to make their lives a little better and I didn't live up to my part of the bargain. See, there are certain things you should expect from a President. I ought to care more about you than I do about me... I ought to care more about what's right than I do about what's popular. I ought to be willing to give this whole thing up for something I believe in."

"If you've ever seen the look on somebody's face the day they finally get a job, I've had some experience with this, they look like they could fly. And it's not about the paycheck, it's about respect, it's about looking in the mirror and knowing that you've done something valuable with your day. And if one person could start to feel this way, and then another person, and then another person, soon all these other problems may not seem so impossible. You don't really know how much you can do until you, stand up and decide to try."

"[singing in the shower] Hail to the chief / He's the one we all say "Hail" to. / We all say "Hail" / 'Cause he keeps himself so clean! / He's got the power, / That's why he's in the shower..."

"Kiefer Sutherland - Agent David Breckinridge"

"In a hundred and forty-one years, there's never been a traitor. Now, all of a sudden, there's two? I don't buy that. Somehow, they're connected."

"I'm being framed. Think about it! I'm the guy who initiated this investigation in the first place. Why would I do that if I wanted to kill the President?"

"The traitor is still out there, Dave!"

"You wanna shoot me? Forget about the Kevlar! Shoot me in my face! Dave! My buddy! C'mon! Shoot me!"

"Sarah, I want you to know that if I don't make it, I was doing my job. I gotta turn this thing off before they track me. I love you."

"An agent maybe draws his weapon once an entire Presidential term. When we draw our weapon, we intend to use it. Bottom line? Agent Merriweather was assassinated. I want the murder weapon; I don't care if you have to drag the Potomac. If this guy had been one of yours, you would have treated him with a lot more respect."

"C'mon, Pete. People would understand that. I mean, Jesus Christ, you took a bullet for the President of the United States, and in the twenty-five years since, you haven't made shift supervisor on a Presidential Detail, and that I know you wanted. But they don't put guys that bend the rules—not even a little bit—in charge of P.P.D., do they? Even if they did take a bullet for the old man."

"Now I know it's hard to believe Pete Garrison could be involved in something like this. For some of you, he's a friend. To some, a legend. But the fact is, the evidence against him is overwhelming. So how do we find him? To begin with, know this—he is smarter and more experienced than all of you. You've never trained for this. You are chasing your worst nightmare. He knows how you think. He knows how you operate, and he will use that against you. He also knows it's going to be difficult for you to pull the trigger if you have him in your sights. So I want you to take a second and visualize that. Because there is a very good chance that is exactly how this is going to end."

"Listen to me: Pete Garrison was my best friend for ten years...until he slept with my wife. So trust me when I tell you that the only thing Pete Garrison cares about is Pete Garrison."

"On a gut level, it doesn't make sense. I mean, the only thing this guy cares about in life is his job."

"A lot of people are looking for you, Pete."

"Pete. They think you're an assassin. They will kill you."

"Pete Garrison and I are having an affair. I don't know all the evidence you have against him, but I do know why he failed the lie-detector test. And I know why he was in that coffee shop looking for someone."

"Bill, what do you think would happen to the power of the President if people thought I wasn't even safe from my own Secret Service? It took over two hundred years to create the symbol of the presidency and I'm not going to undermine it with something like this. Let's circle the wagons, okay?"

"In the 141-year history of the United States Secret Service, there's never been a traitor... until now."

"Michael Douglas - Agent Pete Garrison"

"Eva Longoria - Agent Jill Marin"

"Martin Donovan - Agent Bill Montrose"

"Kim Basinger - First Lady Sarah Ballentine"

"David Rasche - President John Ballentine"

"Ritchie Coster - The Handler"

"Blair Brown - National Security Advisor"

"Raynor Schine - Walter Xavier"

"Chuck Schamata - Director Overbrook"

"Paul Calderon - Deputy Director Cortes"

"Simon Reynolds - Agent Tom DiPaola"

"Kristin Lehman - Cindy Breckinridge"

"Clark Johnson - Agent Charlie Merriweather"

"Bob Haldeman: I have met yams with more going on upstairs than these two."

"I'll take responsibility here. I'll be the only person in this administration who's willing to take responsibility for anything."

"It's alright, gentlemen. I'm familiar with these two young ladies. Well, not "familiar", familiar, obviously. I mean, I know them. We discussed foreign policy. [A secret service agent rolls his eyes knowingly] Don't you give me that look!"