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Answers:

1. Let's start out easy.

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room."
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)
 
2. "Life will go on, we will prevail."
Armageddon
Deep Impact
Independence Day
Mars Attacks!
By way of explanation.....
Spoken by the majestic President Beck (Morgan Freeman)
 
3. "Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear."
Armageddon
The Hunger Games
Deep Impact
Air Force One
By way of explanation.....
Spoken by the sinister President Snow (Donald Sutherland)
 
4. "I was elected to *lead*, not to *read*."
W.
Idiocracy
American Dreamz
The Simpsons Movie
By way of explanation.....
Said by President Schwarzenegger (Harry Shearer)
 
5. "Do not tell me it can't be done."
Pearl Harbor
Air Force One
Primary Colors
The American President
By way of explanation.....
Said defiantly by FDR (Jon Voight)
 
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
Thirteen Days
Pearl Harbor
By way of explanation.....
Said with gusto by President Kennedy (Bruce Greenwood)
 
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
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Independence Day
Deep Impact
By way of explanation.....
Said in voiceover by President Lincoln (Benjamin Walker)
 
8. "Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?"
Lincoln
Independence Day
Deep Impact
Nixon
By way of explanation.....
Spoken by the incomparable President Lincoln (Daniel Day Lewis)
 
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
Dave
Man of the Year
Idiocracy
By way of explanation.....
Sung by Dave (Kevin Kline) impersonating President Bill Mitchell (also Kevin Kline)
 
10. "The White House is the single greatest home court advantage in the modern world."
Thirteen Days
The Contender
The American President
W.
By way of explanation.....
Said by the lovelorn President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas)
 
11. "How long is America going to pretend, that the world is not at war?"
Thirteen Days
Captain America: The First Avenger
Lincoln
Pearl Harbor
By way of explanation.....
Said by FDR (Jon Voight)
 
12. "Peace isn't merely the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice."
Air Force One
Deep Impact
The Contender
Lincoln
By way of explanation.....
Said by the hostage President Marshall (Harrison Ford)
 
13. "I'm saying that when the President does it, it's *not* illegal!"
Absolute Power
Murder at 1600
Frost/Nixon
W.
By way of explanation.....
Spoken arrogantly by President Nixon (Frank Langella)
 
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."
Primary Colors
The Contender
W.
Dave
By way of explanation.....
Said by future President Stanton (John Travolta)
 
15. "I can tell you without hesitation: Being President of this country is entirely about character."
W.
Primary Colors
The American President
Frost/Nixon
By way of explanation.....
Said by a comeuppance-serving President Shepherd (Michael Douglas) to a rival
 
16. "This is my war, not his!"
Independence Day
W.
Pearl Harbor
X2: X-Men United
By way of explanation.....
Said by a living-in-daddy's shadow President George W. Bush
 
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."
Frost/Nixon
Nixon
Absolute Power
Dave
By way of explanation.....
Spoken by the finally repentent President Nixon (Frank Langella)
 
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
Idiocracy
By way of explanation.....
Said with ignorant bliss by President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho (Terry Crews)
 
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
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.
 
20. "I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler."
X2: X-Men United
Watchmen
W.
Dr. Strangelove
By way of explanation.....
Said by reputation-preserving President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers)
 
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
Mars Attacks!
Dick
Absolute Power
By way of explanation.....
Said optimistically by President Dale (Jack Nicholson)
 
22. "I believe he said he had to go pee."
Forrest Gump
Man of the Year
Head of State
Dick
By way of explanation.....
Said in digitally manipulated archive footage of President Kennedy
 
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
Armageddon
G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra
By way of explanation.....
Said by a cheerleading (but unnamed) President (Stanley Anderson)
 
24. "Ach! Everything is 'crisis this' and 'end-of-the-world that'! No one opens with a joke!"
The Simpsons Movie
American Dreamz
Mars Attacks!
Head of State
By way of explanation.....
Spoken by the levity-seeking President Schwarzenegger (Harry Shearer)
 
25. Finish it off as easy as we started:

"GET OFF MY PLANE!"
Proceed to...
the last...
answer...
Air Force One
By way of explanation.....
Spoken climatically by President Marshall (Harrison Ford)
 




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