"[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."

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

"Alastair Campbell: [to Tony Blair] They, er, sent a copy of the Queen's speech. Might want to scrape the frost off it first... Oh, I phoned them with a couple of suggestions, to make it sound like it came from a human being."

"You must show your strength. Reassert your authority. You sit on the most powerful throne in Europe, head of an unbroken line that goes back more than a thousand years. Do you think any of your predecessors would have dropped everything and gone up to London because a bunch of hysterics carrying candles needed help with their grief? Huh! As for that silly Mr. Blair with his Cheshire Cat grin..."

"That woman has given her whole life in service to her people. Fifty years doing a job she never wanted! A job she watched kill her father. She's executed it with honor, dignity and, as far as I can tell, without a single blemish, and now we're all baying for her blood! All because she's struggling to lead the world in mourning for someone who... who threw everything she offered back in her face and who, for the last few years, seemed committed 24/7 to destroying everything she holds most dear!"

"If you imagine I'm going to drop everything and come down to London before I attend to my grandchildren who've just lost their mother, then you're mistaken. I doubt there is anyone who knows the British people more than I do, Mr. Blair, nor who has greater faith in their wisdom and judgement. And it is my belief that they will any moment reject this, this "mood" which is being stirred up by the press, in favor of a period of restrained grief and sober, private mourning. That's the way we do things in this country, quietly, with dignity. That's what the rest of the world has always admired us for."

"Harry Alexander Coath - Euan Blair"

"Mark Bazeley - Alastair Campbell"

"Helen McCrory - Cherie Blair"

"Michael Sheen - Tony Blair"

"Dash Barber - HRH Prince Harry"

"Jake Taylor Shantos - HRH Prince William"

"Douglas Reith - Lord Airlie"

"Tim McMullan - Stephen Lamport"

"Sylvia Syms - HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother"

"Roger Allam - Sir Robin Janvrin"

"Alex Jennings - HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales"

"James Cromwell - HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh"

"Michel Gay - Dodi al Fayed"

"Laurence Burg - Diana, Princess of Wales"

"Helen Mirren - HM Queen Elizabeth II"

"A Lifetime of Tradition. A World of Change."

"Our Leaders. Ourselves."

"Queen of a Nation, Queen of Hearts."

"Tradition Prepared Her. Change Will Define Her."

"A boy is given a horse on his 14th birthday. Everyone in the village says, “Oh how wonderful.” But a Zen master who lives in the village says, “We'll see.” 'The boy falls off the horse and breaks his foot. Everyone in the village says, “Oh how awful.” The Zen master says, “We'll see.” The village is thrown into war and all the young men have to go to war. But, because of the broken foot, the boy stays behind. Everyone says, “Oh, how wonderful.” The Zen master says, “We'll see.”"

"These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world... and then we fucked up the end game."

"You know you've reached rock bottom when you're told you have character flaws by a man who hanged his predecessor in a military coup."

"Well, there were three of them; it was like being slapped around by a Pakistani vaudeville team."

"My loyalty? For 24 years people have been trying to kill me, people who know how. Now do you think that's because my dad was a Greek soda pop maker or because I'm an American spy? Go fuck yourself, you fucking child!"

"Thats how a cold war turns into a real war and that's something you want to keep a very good eye on."

"Dolph Sweet - Big Bill Haywood"

"Jan Triska - Karl Radek"

"John J. Hooker - Senator Overman"

"Oleg Kerensky - Alexander Kerensky"

"Stuart Richman - Leon Trotsky"

"Roger Sloman - Vladimir Lenin"

"Dave King - Allan L. Benson"

"Nancy Duiguid - Jane Heap"

"Gene Hackman - Pete Van Wherry"

"Kathryn Grody - Crystal Eastman"

"Leigh Curran - Ida Rauh"

"Harry Ditson - Maurice Becker"

"George Plimpton - Horace Whigham"

"Max Wright - Floyd Dell"

"Bessie Love - Mrs. Partlow"

"Ian Wolfe - Mr. Partlow"

"M. Emmet Walsh - Speaker – Liberal Club"

"William Daniel - Julius Gerber"