Skip to main content

Close
Get the best research tool on the web today,and free!
Connect with people with common interests!
Play Webslides

Matthew Raketti's Bookmarks tagged politics →  View Popular

You are here: Diigo Home > Matthew Raketti's Bookmarks

Expand All 1 - 20 of 40 Next ›
1Expand

FILMS: multipe US~ political films and the "best line" from each

"All the King's Men," 1949

Best line: "Look, Willie, you yell at them too much. Just tell them you're going to soak the rich guys." - Advice to the governor-to-be on how to give a political speech

"The Best Man," 1964

Best line: "Someday we're going to have a Negro president. After that we're going to do something for that other minority and elect a woman." - Former Democratic president to the convention

"Blaze," 1989

Best line: Earl: "Would you still love me as much if I wasn't the fine governor of the great state of Louisiana?" Blaze: "Would you still love me if I had little tits and worked in a fish house?"

"Bob Roberts," 1992

Best line: "What's behind Bob Roberts? I don't see anyone at home. I will say once or twice in our debate I detected the odor of sulfur in the air." - Roberts' opponent on his flaws

"Bulworth," 1998

Best line: "All we need is a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction. Everybody just gotta keep f- everybody till they're all the same color." - Bulworth on the campaign trail

"The Candidate," 1972

Best line: "What do we do now?" - McKay, after winning the election

"The Last Hurrah," 1958

Best line: "The trick is to know what the people want and then know what they will settle for." - Skeffington

"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," 1939

Best line: "You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked. I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause, even if the room gets filled with lies like these and the Taylors and all their armies come marching into this place." - Smith at a low point in the filibuster

"Primary Colors," 1998

Best line: "I'm going to tell you something really outrageous. I'm going to tell you the truth." - Gov. Stanton at a rally.

"Speechless," 1994

Best line: "Some speechwriters have the tendency to become what is known as 'paranoid.' Just because someone seems interested in her doesn't mean they are after her 'secrets.' " - Kevin lecturing Julia

Tags: film, todo, politics, ref on 2008-08-28 and saved by8 people -All Annotations (0) -About

in list: FILMS TO SEE

more fromwww.poorandstupid.com

1 - 20 of 40 Next ›
List 20 50 100

Notation: * = Private bookmark and comment|… = Clipping [?] | … = Public highlight [?]

Matthew Raketti's Related Tags

Selected tags
Related tags