- Rage Against the Machine: [referencing the Democratic National Convention] Apparently there's some other show going on across the street here, but it's all sold out.
- Harold Ford Jr.: The two most important things in power. Number one is money, and the second thing I can't really remember.
- Charlton Heston: [holding a rifle] For you... Mister Gore...
- Charlton Heston: [raises the rifle up at arm's length] From my cold dead hands!
- Philip Seymour Hoffman: If freedom is for the government, what else does the Republican Party believe in?
- Republican: We believe in individual achievement, education.
- Reporter: George W. Bush and Al Gore are still running neck and neck.
- [first title card]
- Title Card: Democracy
- [n]
- Title Card: - The principle of equality, rights, opportunity, and treatment