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Let's start out easy. "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room." |
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Dr. Strangelove | ||
Mars Attacks! | |||
Air Force One | |||
Murder at 1600 | |||
By way of explanation.....
Spoken unaware of the irony by President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers) |
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2. | "Life will go on, we will prevail." | ||
Armageddon | |||
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Deep Impact | ||
Independence Day | |||
Mars Attacks! | |||
By way of explanation.....
Spoken by the majestic President Beck (Morgan Freeman) |
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3. | "Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear." | ||
Armageddon | |||
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The Hunger Games | ||
Deep Impact | |||
Air Force One | |||
By way of explanation.....
Spoken by the sinister President Snow (Donald Sutherland) |
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4. | "I was elected to *lead*, not to *read*." | ||
W. | |||
Idiocracy | |||
American Dreamz | |||
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The Simpsons Movie | ||
By way of explanation.....
Said by President Schwarzenegger (Harry Shearer) |
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5. | "Do not tell me it can't be done." | ||
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Pearl Harbor | ||
Air Force One | |||
Primary Colors | |||
The American President | |||
By way of explanation.....
Said defiantly by FDR (Jon Voight) |
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6. | "*I* have the authority! I am the commander in chief of the United States, and I say when we go to war!" | ||
W. | |||
Dr. Strangelove | |||
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Thirteen Days | ||
Pearl Harbor | |||
By way of explanation.....
Said with gusto by President Kennedy (Bruce Greenwood) |
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7. | "For whatever else I am, a husband, a lawyer...a president...I shall always think of myself as a man who struggled against the darkness." | ||
Frost/Nixon | |||
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter | ||
Independence Day | |||
Deep Impact | |||
By way of explanation.....
Said in voiceover by President Lincoln (Benjamin Walker) |
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8. | "Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?" | ||
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Lincoln | ||
Independence Day | |||
Deep Impact | |||
Nixon | |||
By way of explanation.....
Spoken by the incomparable President Lincoln (Daniel Day Lewis) |
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9. | "Hail to the chief / He's the one we all say "Hail" to. / We all say "Hail" / 'Cause he keeps himself so clean! / He's got the power, / That's why he's in the shower..." | ||
The Simpsons Movie | |||
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Dave | ||
Man of the Year | |||
Idiocracy | |||
By way of explanation.....
Sung by Dave (Kevin Kline) impersonating President Bill Mitchell (also Kevin Kline) |
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10. | "The White House is the single greatest home court advantage in the modern world." | ||
Thirteen Days | |||
The Contender | |||
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The American President | ||
W. | |||
By way of explanation.....
Said by the lovelorn President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas) |
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11. | "How long is America going to pretend, that the world is not at war?" | ||
Thirteen Days | |||
Captain America: The First Avenger | |||
Lincoln | |||
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Pearl Harbor | ||
By way of explanation.....
Said by FDR (Jon Voight) |
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12. | "Peace isn't merely the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice." | ||
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Air Force One | ||
Deep Impact | |||
The Contender | |||
Lincoln | |||
By way of explanation.....
Said by the hostage President Marshall (Harrison Ford) |
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13. | "I'm saying that when the President does it, it's *not* illegal!" | ||
Absolute Power | |||
Murder at 1600 | |||
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Frost/Nixon | ||
W. | |||
By way of explanation.....
Spoken arrogantly by President Nixon (Frank Langella) |
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14. | "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." | ||
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Primary Colors | ||
The Contender | |||
W. | |||
Dave | |||
By way of explanation.....
Said by future President Stanton (John Travolta) |
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15. | "I can tell you without hesitation: Being President of this country is entirely about character." | ||
W. | |||
Primary Colors | |||
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The American President | ||
Frost/Nixon | |||
By way of explanation.....
Said by a comeuppance-serving President Shepherd (Michael Douglas) to a rival |
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16. | "This is my war, not his!" | ||
Independence Day | |||
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W. | ||
Pearl Harbor | |||
X2: X-Men United | |||
By way of explanation.....
Said by a living-in-daddy's shadow President George W. Bush |
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17. | "I let them down. I let down my friends, I let down my country, and worst of all I let down our system of government, and the dreams of all those young people that ought to get into government but now they think; 'Oh it's all too corrupt and the rest'. Yeah... I let the American people down. And I'm gonna have to carry that burden with me for the rest of my life. My political life is over." | ||
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Frost/Nixon | ||
Nixon | |||
Absolute Power | |||
Dave | |||
By way of explanation.....
Spoken by the finally repentent President Nixon (Frank Langella) |
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18. | "Number 1: We've got this guy Not Sure. Number 2: He's got a higher IQ than ANY MAN ALIVE. and Number 3: He's going to fix EVERYTHING." | ||
Mars Attacks! | |||
Dr. Strangelove | |||
Armageddon | |||
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Idiocracy | ||
By way of explanation.....
Said with ignorant bliss by President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho (Terry Crews) |
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19. | "These two great gentlemen are dedicated to a proposition which was true in my time, just as it's true today." | ||
Wild Wild West | |||
Forrest Gump | |||
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | ||
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter | |||
By way of explanation.....
Said gleefully by President Lincoln (Robert Barron). And don't forget...San Dimas High School football rules. |
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20. | "I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler." | ||
X2: X-Men United | |||
Watchmen | |||
W. | |||
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Dr. Strangelove | ||
By way of explanation.....
Said by reputation-preserving President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers) |
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21. | "I want the people to know that they still have 2 out of 3 branches of the government working for them, and that ain't bad." | ||
Idiocracy | |||
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Mars Attacks! | ||
Dick | |||
Absolute Power | |||
By way of explanation.....
Said optimistically by President Dale (Jack Nicholson) |
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22. | "I believe he said he had to go pee." | ||
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Forrest Gump | ||
Man of the Year | |||
Head of State | |||
Dick | |||
By way of explanation.....
Said in digitally manipulated archive footage of President Kennedy |
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23. | "I address you tonight not as the President of the United States, not as the leader of a country, but as a citizen of humanity. We are faced with the very gravest of challenges." | ||
Deep Impact | |||
Independence Day | |||
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Armageddon | ||
G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra | |||
By way of explanation.....
Said by a cheerleading (but unnamed) President (Stanley Anderson) |
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24. | "Ach! Everything is 'crisis this' and 'end-of-the-world that'! No one opens with a joke!" | ||
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The Simpsons Movie | ||
American Dreamz | |||
Mars Attacks! | |||
Head of State | |||
By way of explanation.....
Spoken by the levity-seeking President Schwarzenegger (Harry Shearer) |
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25. |
Finish it off as easy as we started: "GET OFF MY PLANE!" |
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Air Force One | ||
By way of explanation.....
Spoken climatically by President Marshall (Harrison Ford) |
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