- [with a gun in her enemy's crotch]
- Libby Holden: I am a gay lesbian woman! I do not mythologize the male sexual organ!
- Gov. Jack Stanton: [handing Picker the scandalous information concerning his dealings with Reyes] This is the only copy left. I want you to have it because it might help you to know what someone else may find. I shouldn't have looked for it. I'm really sorry.
- Gov. Fred Picker: Fuckin' cocaine. You know, I was really so successful at everything I did. Business, politics, hell, I could handle anything... except cocaine. Only I didn't know that because of cocaine. That's what really fucked up my marriage. It wasn't anything else. And...
- [pause]
- Gov. Fred Picker: I did go to bed with 'Renzo once or twice. Hell, it was just a coke thing. I could do anything, so I did that too.
- [pause]
- Gov. Fred Picker: I'm seeing a really nice woman now... I suppose I have to tell her.
- [voice breaking]
- Gov. Fred Picker: Hell of a price to pay, isn't it?
- Gov. Jack Stanton: Well, maybe no one will find out.
- Gov. Fred Picker: Well, you did... in a day. I should never have said yes to Mrs. Harris. But I liked what Harris was doing, and I thought I'd give it a week, and it just took off. Once I did that blood thing, God...
- Gov. Jack Stanton: [interrupting] ... but that was great politics.
- Gov. Fred Picker: Yeah... amazing, wasn't it? Jack, I'd like to thank you for coming here, the honorable way you have. I was wrong to stay in. I just hope that maybe when I quit, they won't hit it as hard. And my boys, I really don't want them to know about 'Renzo. The problem is, the bottom line is, I'm going to be a national joke... and I'm going to have to explain it all to my boys... either way. Because no matter what I do, the press is still going to find out the rest of it, aren't they?
- Gov. Jack Stanton: If they think it will sell one newspaper, yes.
- Gov. Fred Picker: [breaking down] Oh, my God.
- Gov. Jack Stanton: [putting his hand on Picker's shoulder] If there's anything I can do... anything... that can make it a little better...
- [stands and leaves as Picker weeps]
- Gov. Jack Stanton: I'm going to tell you something really outrageous. I'm going to tell you the truth.
- Susan Stanton: 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.
- [Watching the final scene of "Shane" on television]
- Henry Burton: Come back, Shane! Run for president!
- Gov. Jack Stanton: 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.
- Richard Jemmons: I got a python in here...
- [Richard unzips his pants and exposes himself to Jennifer at campaign office in front of everyone]
- Jennifer Rogers: [awkwardly] I've never seen one that... old... before
- [Richard is stunned]
- Jennifer Rogers: .
- Howard Ferguson: [softly] Come on, Richard... let's just park that Mustang back in the garage
- [leading him away]
- Howard Ferguson: .
- Susan Stanton: Isn't that the thing experience teaches you? Not to get burned?
- Henry Burton: Does anyone ever learn that?
- Susan Stanton: Not the best people.
- [on the fealty of political bosses]
- Richard Jemmons: That's what these guys do. They love you and then stop lovin' you.
- Jack Stanton: 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.
- Libby Holden: Our Jackie's done some pretty stupid things in his life. He's poked his pecker in some sorry trash bins.
- Henry Burton: I can tell the difference between a man who believes what I believe and lies about it to get elected, and a man who just doesn't give a fuck. And I'll take the liar.
- [first lines]
- Howard Ferguson: I've seen him do it a million times, but I can't tell you how he does it, Henry. The right-handed part. I can tell you what he does with his left hand. He's a genius with it. He might put that hand on your elbow or your bicep, like he's doing now. Basic move, he's interested in you. He's honored to meet you. But if he gets any higher, if he gets on your shoulder, it's not as intimate. He'll share a laugh with you, a light secret. And if he doesn't know you, but wants to share emotional he'll lock you in a two-hander. You'll see when he shakes hands with you, Henry.
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