- former White House council to Richard Nixon: The most troubling thing about the fact of the distortions and the misleading statements that Bush gave Congress, is that it is a federal felony, it's a crime, to mislead and distort information and present it to the Congress.
- former White House council to Richard Nixon: Senior administration officials is a key to very specifically the president, vice president, cabinet officers and the top of the White house.
- [They]
- former White House council to Richard Nixon: had gone out of their way to get that information out, not only told Novak, told Time magazine. They wanted that information out. Now, that's against a statutory law that prohibits the identification of CIA operatives. It also has the potential of placing that person in jeopardy because of their operations, and their own operation and people they have operated with in jeopardy. So, it was a very vengeful act against the ambassador
- [Joseph Wilson]
- former White House council to Richard Nixon: to try to hurt him by hurting his wife's
- [Valerie Plame]
- former White House council to Richard Nixon: career, if not wishing her physical damage. I have never seen a dirty trick that could be a 'hit.'
- former ambassador to Saudi Arabia: One of the more ironic effects of the attack on Iraq, was to buttress other countries in the conviction that, the infamous remark by an Indian general after the first Gulf War when he said, the lesson of this war is that if you have to fight the United States you better have nuclear weapons.
- voice: [spoken over carrier landing scene at end of film] In some respects, it's as if Viet Nam never even happened. It's as if a lot of our leaders have suffered some sort of historical and political lobotomy.... The United States ultimately is supposed to be an exemplar for the rest of the world.... We've violated fundamental principles... that have guided this country's foreign policy so successfully since 1947.