"[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!"

"[about Jack Stanton] He's poked his pecker in some sorry trash bins."

"[while watching Shane] Come back, Shane. Run for president."

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

"I'm not comparing the players. I don't like the game."

"The media giveth, and go fuck yourself"

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"[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."

"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."

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

"Ed Begley, Jr. as Harry Hopkins"

"Jan Triska as Vyacheslav Molotov"

"Corey Burton as Radio News Announcer"

"Experience has taught me to face up to reality, no matter how unpleasant it may be, and to tell the truth."

"Michael Caine as Joseph Stalin"

"John Lithgow as Franklin D. Roosevelt"

"Bob Hoskins as Winston Churchill"

"Huey Lewis - Vern Miller"

"Buck Henry - Gordon Johnson"

"Lyle Lovett - Andy Bitkower"

"Charles Rocket - Wally Littleton"

"Peter Gallagher - Stormy Weathers"

"Annie Ross - Tess Trainer"

"Lori Singer - Zoe Trainer"

"Frances McDormand - Betty Weathers"

"Jack Lemmon - Paul Finnigan"

"Tom Waits - Earl Piggot"

"Michael Beach - Jim Stone"

"Lili Taylor - Honey Piggot Bush"

"Robert Downey Jr. - Bill Bush"

"Madeleine Stowe - Sherri Shepard"

"Chris Penn - Jerry Kaiser"

"Anne Archer - Claire Kane"

"Fred Ward - Stuart Kane"

"Jennifer Jason Leigh - Lois Kaiser"

"Tim Robbins - Gene Shepard"

"Lily Tomlin - Doreen Piggot"

"From two American masters comes a movie like no other"

"Andie MacDowell - Ann Finnigan"

"Bruce Davison - Howard Finnigan"

"Matthew Modine - Dr. Ralph Wyman"