"[The IRA have just destroyed a Black-and-Tan mechanised infantry patrol] Mercenaries! That were paid to come over here to make us crawl, and to wipe us out. We've just sent a message to the British cabinet that will echo and reverberate around the world! If they bring their savagery over here, we will meet it with a savagery of our own!"

"It's easy to know what you are against, but quite another to know what you are for."

"The Treaty does not express the will of the people, but the fear of the people."

"I tried not to get into this war, and couldn't. Now I try to get out, and can't."

"Your presence here is a crime, a foreign occupation. You tell me what I'm supposed to do as a democrat. Turn the other cheek for another 700 years? Is that it?"

"Strange creatures we are, even to ourselves."

"[to Sinead, about Chris] We buried him in this chapel in the mountains. And I went down and... and I told his mother. His mother, who has cooked meals for me and her son. And when I told her she... she just looked at me. and then she went in and she put on her shoes. Then she came out and she said, "Take me to my child." And we walked for six hours and she didn't say one word. Then we got to the chapel. [sighs] And I showed her the grave. And I'd put a... cross and some flowers on it. And she turned to me and she said, "I never want to see your face again." [sighs] I've crossed the line now, Sinead."

"Fiona Lawton – Lily"

"All the reporters love you. Even the reporters that hate you still love you."

"Ryan Gosling - Stephen Meyers"

"[to Stephen Meyers] I really want to fuck you. That's kind of a slutty thing for me to say, huh?"

"George Clooney - Mike Morris"

"I'm not a Christian. I'm not an atheist. I'm not Jewish. I'm not Muslim. My religion, what I believe in is called the Constitution of United States of America."

"You can lie, you can cheat, you can start a war, you can bankrupt the country, but you can't fuck the interns. They get you for that."

"Jennifer Ehle - Cindy Morris"

"Gregory Itzin - Jack Stearns"

"Michael Mantell - Ted Pullman"

"Evan Rachel Wood - Molly Stearns"

"Marisa Tomei - Ida Horowicz"

"Paul Giamatti - Tom Duffy"

"Jeffrey Wright - Franklin Thompson"

"Max Minghella - Ben Harpen"

"Philip Seymour Hoffman - Paul Zara"

"James Harper as Willie Rainach"

"Jerry Hardin as Thibodeaux"

"Jeffrey DeMunn as Eldon Tuck"

"Richard Jenkins as Picayune"

"Gailard Sartain as LaGrange"

"Brandon Smith as Arvin Deeter"

"Paul Newman as Governor Earl Long"

"Robert Wuhl as Red Snyder"

"Lolita Davidovich as Blaze Starr"

"I want you to meet the finest yes-men in Louisiana and their lovely wives."

"The three best friends the poor people have ever had are Jesus Christ, Sears & Roebuck and Earl K. Long."

"The man lost twenty-one thousand Americans and a million Indochinese during his administration. He only escaped jail because of Ford's pardon. Right now, I submit it's impossible to feel anything close to sympathy for Richard Nixon. He devalued the presidency and he left the country that elected him in trauma. The American people need a conviction, pure and simple. The integrity of our political system, of democracy as an idea, entirely depends on it. And, in years to come, if people look back and say that it was in this interview that Richard Nixon exonerated himself, that would be the worst crime of all."

"Well, in boxing, you know, there's always that first moment, and you see it in the challenger's face. It's that moment that he feels the impact from the champ's first jab. It's kind of a sickening moment, when he realizes that all those months of pep talks and the hype, the psyching yourself up, had been delusional all along. You could see it in Frost's face. If he didn't know the caliber of the man that he was up against before the interview started, he certainly knew it halfway through the President's first answer."