"There are 16,800 magazines in this country, but only one calls itself the inflight magazine for Air Force One. That's the thrill of working at The New Republic. You're underpaid, the hours are brutal, but what you write gets read by people who matter: Presidents, lawmakers. Your work can actually influence public policy. That's an amazing privilege and a huge responsibility."

"It's true, journalism is hard work. Everyone is under pressure, everyone's grinding to get the issue out. No one is getting enough sleep. But you are allowed to smile. Even Woodward and Bernstein went out for a burger every once in a while. And they won a Pulitzer. Some reporters think that it's political content that makes a story. I think it's the people — their quirks, their flaws, what makes them funny, what makes them human. Journalism is just the art of capturing behavior. You have to know who you're writing for, you have to know what you're good at. I record what people do. I find out what moves them, what scares them, and I write that down. That way, they're the ones who are telling the story. And, you know what? Those kinds of pieces can win Pulitzers too."

"The New Republic, snobbiest rag in the business, the in-flight magazine of Air Force One... and their star goes out and gets completely snowed by a bunch of hackers. I mean, God couldn't have written this any better."

"Although only fifty Tuckers were ever produced, forty six of them are still road worthy and in use today. Tucker's innovations of aerodynamic styling, padded dash, pop out windows, seat belts, fuel injection and disc brakes were slowly adopted by Detroit and are found in the cars you are driving now. Preston Tucker died of an illness six years after the trial, but his ideas will live forever."

"Lloyd Bridges - Senator Homer Ferguson"

"Dean Stockwell - Howard Hughes"

"Mako - Jimmy Sakuyama"

"When I was a boy, I used to, uh, used to read all about Edison and the Wright Brothers, Mr. Ford. They were my heroes. 'Rags to Riches' - that's not just the name of a book. That's what this country was all about. We invented the 'free enterprise' system, where anybody, no matter who he was, where he came from, what class he belonged to - if he came up with a better idea about anything, there's no limit to how far he could go. I grew up a generation too late, I guess, because now the way the system works, the loner, the dreamer, the crackpot who comes up with some crazy idea that everybody laughs at, that later turns out to revolutionize the world - he's squashed from above before he even gets his head out of the water because the bureaucrats, they'd rather kill a new idea than let it rock the boat! If Benjamin Franklin were alive today, he'd be thrown in jail for sailing a kite without a license! [jury laughs] It's true! We're all puffed up with ourselves now 'cause we invented the bomb - dropped the - beat the daylights out of the Japanese, the Nazis. But if big business closes the door on the little guy with a new idea, we're not only closing the door on progress, but we're sabotaging everything that we fought for! Everything that the country stands for!! And one day we're gonna find ourselves at the bottom of the heap instead of king of the hill, having no idea how we got there, buying our radios and our cars from our former enemies. [A juror laughs] I don't believe that's gonna happen. I can't believe it because - if I ever stop believing in the plain 'ol common horse sense of the American people, be no way I could get out of bed in the morning. Thank you."

"Nina Siemaszko - Marilyn Lee Tucker"

"Don Novello - Stan"

"Christian Slater - Preston Tucker, Jr."

"Frederic Forrest - Eddie Dean"

"Elias Koteas - Alex Tremulis"

"Martin Landau - Abe Karatz"

"Joan Allen - Vera Tucker"

"Jeff Bridges - Preston Tucker"

"When I was a little kid, maybe five years old, in the old country, my mother used to say to me; she'd warn me, she'd say, 'Don't get too close to people. You'll catch their dreams...Years later, I realized I misunderstood her. 'Germs', she said, not 'dreams', 'You'll catch their germs... [they both laugh] I want you to know something, Tucker. I went into business with you for one reason - to make money. That's all... How was I to know... [chokes up, head down] if I got too close, I'd catch your dreams."

"[last lines, from Second Inaugural speech] Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

"Stephen Henderson - Lincoln's valet William Slade"

"Joseph Cross - John Hay"

"Gulliver McGrath - Tad Lincoln"

"Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Robert Todd Lincoln"

"Gloria Reuben - Elizabeth Keckley"

"S. Epatha Merkerson - Lydia Smith"

"Gregory Itzin - John Archibald Campbell"

"Jackie Earle Haley - Confederate States Vice President Alexander H. Stephens"

"Wayne Duvall - Radical Republican Senator Benjamin "Bluff Ben" Wade"

"David Warshofsky - Democratic Congressmann William Hutton"

"Walton Goggins - Democratic Congressman Wells A. Hutchins"

"Boris McGiver - Democratic Congressman, later Republican, Alexander Coffroth"

"Michael Stuhlbarg - Kentucky Democratic Congressman George Yeaman"

"Stephen Spinella - Radical Republican Congressman Asa Vintner Litton"

"David Costabile - Republican Congressman James Ashley"

"Bill Raymond - Schuyler Colfax"

"John Hawkes - Republican operative Colonel Robert Latham"

"Tim Blake Nelson - lobbyist Richard Schell"

"James Spader - Republican Party operative William N. Bilbo"

"Jared Harris - Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant"

"Dakin Matthews- Secretary of the Interior John Palmer Usher"

"Bruce McGill - Secretary of War Edwin Stanton"

"Peter McRobbie - Democratic Congressman George H. Pendleton"

"Lee Pace - Democratic Congressman Fernando Wood"

"Hal Holbrook - Francis Preston Blair"

"Tommy Lee Jones - Radical Republican Congressional leader Thaddeus Stevens"

"David Strathairn - Secretary of State William H. Seward"

"Sally Field - First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln"

"Daniel Day-Lewis - President Abraham Lincoln"