Fair Game (I) (2010)

Sean Penn: Joe Wilson

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• Joe Wilson : The responsibility of a country is not in the hands of a privileged few. We are strong, and we are free from tyranny as long as each one of us remembers his or her duty as a citizen. Whether it's to report a pothole at the top of your street or lies in a State of the Union address, speak out! Ask those questions. Demand that truth. Democracy is not a free ride, man. I'm here to tell you. But, this is where we live. And if we do our job, this is where our children will live. God bless America.

• Valerie Plame : You seriously think you can pick a fight with the White House and win? They'll bury us.

  Joe Wilson : They'll bury us if we don't. Listen Valerie.

  Valerie Plame : No you listen to me.

  Joe Wilson : No, Valerie, Valerie, Valerie! Do I, does that make me right if I shout louder than you? If I shout louder than you am I right? If I'm the White House and I shout a million times louder than you, does that make me right? They lied Valerie, they lied. That's the truth.

• Joe Wilson : Niger has two uranium mines in the Sahara desert. One's flooded. The other is run by COGEMA, a French subsidiary jointly controlled by the Japanese and Germans. Five hundred tons of yellowcake is not an off-the-books size transaction. It represents a 40 percent production increase in the nation's annual output of uranium. A sale that size would leave a huge paper trail. Any documentation would, by law, have to be signed by the Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and the Minister of Mines. But say it was an off-the-books deal. How do you hide the transportation of 500 tons of anything, let alone lightly-refined uranium. You're talking 50 semi-tractor trucks on one road through villages where nothing passed for months except maybe one bush taxi. It would be the biggest event for months. To say they forgot is like kids forgetting Christmas.

• Joe Wilson : When Benjamin Franklin left Independence Hall just after the second drafting, he was approached by a woman in the street. The woman said, "Mr. Franklin, what manner of government have you bequeathed us? And Franklin said, " A Republic madam. If you can keep it."

• Lisa : [at dinner]  It only takes one to fly into a nuclear power plant. One.

  Jeff : A sarin attack on Disneyworld...

  Diana : Yeah, but whatever they're telling us, we're totally vulnerable. I mean, who is protecting us?

  Lisa : Would you risk taking your kids to Disneyworld right now? Would you do that?

  Joe Wilson : Absolutely not. I'd be terrified of exposing my children to what adds up to a clearinghouse for crap merchandise and disappointing rides.