"[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!"

"From now on you can call me the Dust Buster — I'm stronger than dirt!"

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

"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 media giveth, and go fuck yourself"

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

"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."

"[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."

"Bill Maher - himself"

"Sophia Choi - herself"

"He was born to run."

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

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

"They're Not Exactly A Well Organized Well-Oiled Machine, But That's Their Secret."

"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."

"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."

"I'm gonna do something really outrageous: I'm gonna tell the truth."

"Kevin Cooney - Senator Lawrence Harris"

"Diane Ladd - Mamma Stanton"

"Stacy Edwards - Jennifer Rogers"

"Larry Hagman - Governor Fred Picker"

"Paul Guilfoyle - Howard Ferguson"

"Maura Tierney - Daisy Green"

"Kathy Bates - Libby Holden"

"Billy Bob Thornton - Richard Jemmons"

"Adrian Lester - Henry Burton"

"Emma Thompson - Susan Stanton"

"John Travolta - Gov./President Jack Stanton"

"How Much Spin Does It Take To Win?"

"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"