What movie quote sums up Republicans best?

[Rocknrule]

My pick is from Galaxy Quest:

"What is it?"
"I dunno, let's hit it with a rock!"

[cali]

1. I'll go with: "Greed is good" from Wall Street n/t

[Cyrano]

2. "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." Wall Street- Michael Douglas

[Touchdown]

3. Ugh! The dance of the living dead...

...Look at that one! The last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it. -Caddyshack

BTW: Yours if from Galaxy Quest, not Lost in Space.

[Rocknrule]

9. My bad

[mrcheerful]

4. Mine from any number of tragedy movies

oh my god they are blind. They can't see who will help them?

[Bjornsdotter]

5. There's no fighting in the war room!

...or any other quote from Dr Strangelove, there are so many that would fit.

Cheers!

[NYCGirl]

6. Lonesome Rhodes from "A Face in the Crowd" —

Lonesome Rhodes: This whole country's just like my flock of sheep! Hillbillies, hausfraus - everybody that's got to jump when someone else blows a whistle! They're mine!

[BOSSHOG]

7. From Paper Moon

Addie Pray talking to (a republican.) "I don't know what scruples are but I know if you have them you stole them from somebody else."

[AndyA]

8. Jane Fonda's character in "9 to 5":

You're a Sexist, Egotistical, Lying, Hypocritical, Bigot.

If you add thief and cheating to the list, you've just about summed up the Repugs in one line.

[tjwash]

40. Yeah, and does Dabney Coleman make THE BEST republican, or what?

Another movie he was in, he said "now I don't want to do it because you're weak. I want you to do it because you know I'm right."

[mandyky]

10. American President: Andy Shepard's

comments about Bob Rumson....

[TahitiNut]

11. "You sit around here and you spin your little webs and you think ..."

George Bailey: "You sit around here and you spin your little webs and you think the whole world revolves around you and your money. Well, it doesn't, Mr. Potter. In the whole vast configuration of things, I'd say you were nothing but a scurvy little spider. And..."
<turning to Potter's aide>
George Bailey: "And that goes for you, too!"

[warrens]

12. V for Vendetta comes pretty close

Religious lunatics, religious frauds, greedheads, racists and fascists.

[Uben]

13. "You talkin to me?"

n/t

[madmom]

14. "frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!" from very aptly named

Gone With The Wind.

[Cyrano]

15. "A mind is a terrible thing not to have." Dan Quayle screwing up a speech.

[lpbk2713]

16. "Hold your friends close but hold your enemies closer."

Michael Corleone

[edhopper]

17. "I imagine that right now, you're feeling a bit like Alice.

Hmm? Tumbling down the rabbit hole?"

Morpheus in "The Matrix"

[Psephos]

18. "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining."

Senator Lane: Fletcher, there's an old saying - To the victors belong the spoils.

Fletcher: There's another old saying, Senator - Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.

(From The Outlaw Josey Wales, natch.)

Peace.

[Rocknrule]

19. Tons of 'em from Star Wars

"If you're not with me, you're my enemy"
"I find your lack of faith...disturbing"
"Let the hate flow through you!"
"If you only knew the POWER of the Dark Side!"

[ObaMania]

20. "What we have here... is failure to c'mmunicate"

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

21. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning"..... warmongers that they are.

[Kurovski]

22. "You can't handle the truth!" Jack Nicholson in, whatever that movie was.

[zbdent]

23. I'd say, from Stripes

"There's something really WRO-ONG with us!" - meaning, the Repukes have something really wrong with them . . .

[KansDem]

24. "THE JIG IS UP"

Michael Caine to Sean Connery in "The Man Who Would Be King."

At least it sums up the GOP of late...

[driver8]

25. "I am your king"

Woman: Well I didn't vote for you.

King Arthur: You don't vote for kings.

Woman: Well how'd you become king then?


King Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king.

Dennis: Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

(quote from Monty Python and the Holy Grail)

[Initech]

26. "Say hello to my little friend!!!"

[Maven]

27. "The world is made for those who aren't cursed with self-awareness."

Susan Sarandon in "Bull Durham."

[Hardrada]

28. We have ways to make you talk.

any number of spy and WWII flix with Nazis.

[VOX]

29. "There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT..."

Per Ned Beatty's character, Arthur Jensen, in "Network" (1976 - 30 years ago!):

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechnetwork4.html
You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state -- Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do.

We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality -- one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.

[TahitiNut]

42. Yep. That just about sums up the corporatist GOP attitude.

And it's far more accurate than almost anyone (except the pathological plutocrats) would want it to be,

[porphyrian]

30. "Dear Benson,..."

"...you are so mercifully free of the ravages of intelligence." - Evil Genius

[Reader Rabbit]

31. "Fuck the poor!"

"Thank you. I knew I could count on you, senators."

History of the World, Part I

Mel Brooks is Yahweh!

[OneBlueSky]

32. "Leave the gun. Take the canoli." . . . The Godfather . . . n/t

.

[mikeytherat]

33. from Men in Black

"Imagine a giant cockroach - with unlimited strength, a massive inferiority complex, and a really short fuse."

mikey_the_rat

[Rocknrule]

34. From Harry Potter:

"There is no good or evil, only power" (Voldemort)

[rememberearth]

37. YES!

I had forgot about that one ".......and those too weak to seek it.":applause:

[bunkerbuster1]

35. Bluto, in Animal House.

"You fucked up. You trusted us."

[dysfunctional press]

41. pardon me, but wasn't it Otter who said that?

although there is a Bluto line from that same scene that may be appropo:

"My advice to you...is to start drinking heavily."


(better listen to him- he's pre-med)

[bunkerbuster1]

45. It's been awhile.

I'll take your word for it.

Although that Bluto line you've quoted is definitely appropo!

[rememberearth]

36. mine's from the Godfather part two

" I knew it was you Fredo, YOU BROKE MY HEART."

[Cosmocat]

38. Kill them all and let god sort them out ...

That is pretty much their mindset ...

[tjwash]

39. Trading Places--"We seem to be paying some of our employees an..."

"...awful lot of money"

"Can't get around the old minimum wage Mortimer"

[Strawman]

43. Billy Madison: "What you've just said..."

is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it."

Came to mind yesterday after hearing a Chimpy soundbyte about Iran and the "IEA" and the Iranians' "intransisigents."

[MurrayDelph]

44. "The Prisoner": episode Once Upon a Time

6: I wish to protest unfair treatment

2: We are giving you the same treatment we give everyone else

6: I know. That's what I'm protesting against!

[Shadowen]

46. From Good Will Hunting:

"Why shouldn't I work for the NSA? That's a tough one. *chuckles* But I'll give it a shot. Say I'm workin' for the NSA and I'm somebody puts a code on my desk, somethin' no one else can break. Maybe I take a shot and it, and maybe I break it, and I'm real happy with myself 'cause I did my job well. But what if that code was for a rebel army somewhere over in North Africa or the Middle East? Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels are hidin', 1500 people I never met, never had any problem with, get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', 'Send in the Marines to secure the arae', 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there gettin' shot, just like it wasn't them when their number was called, 'cayse they were all pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be my buddy from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass.

Now he comes home to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from and the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile, he realizes the only reason he was over there was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the skirmish to scare up domestic oil prices; a cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain't helpin' my buddy at two-fifty a gallon.

Naturally they're takin' their sweet time bringin' theo il back, and maybe they even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and play slalom with the icebergs. It ain't too long till he hits one, spills the oil, and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic.

So my buddy's out of work, he can't afford to drive so he's got to walk to the job interviews--which sucks because the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids--and meanwhile he's starvin' 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quakerstate. So what do I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. Fuck it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his worn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? Hell, I could be elected president."
-Will Hunting

The worst part about Republicans, particularly the Neocons currently in charge, is that they have somehow roped good, talented, dedicated people who love their country into destroying it...and others, too.

Thread over. I win.

[Rocknrule]

47. "Respect my fuckin' authoritah!"

South Park: BL&U

[mb7588a]

48. "Only Sith speak in absolutes" nt.

[Rocknrule]

49. No, that's Democrats

Obi would've been one of us