Maura Tierney credited as playing...
Daisy
- [discussing Jack Stanton's affair with a hairdresser]
- Richard Jemmons: Well, why did he do it? Did he figure that Cashmere McLeod would be so fuckin' honored she'd never betray the secret?
- Henry Burton: Well now, wait a minute. Maybe it isn't true.
- Daisy: What difference does it make?
- Henry Burton: It'd be better if it wasn't true.
- Daisy: Why? They say Hitler never looked at another woman after Eva Braun. Does that make him better than Stanton? Or Jefferson, or Roosevelt, or Kennedy, or any of the guys we wish we worked for who fucked around on the side?
- Richard Jemmons: But that's not the official line for interviews.
- [discussing the need for an internal investigator so the campaign can anticipate and respond to negative press coverage]
- Susan Stanton: What are you suggesting we do? How would you deal with it?
- Daisy: By knowing more than they do. By being prepared, so when a story like Chicago comes up, we can fight back with the truth.
- Lucille Kaufman: That's impossible. How are we supposed to know what kind of garbage they're gonna come up with?
- Richard Jemmons: Well, that's the point, Lucille. That's the whole ever-fuckin' point. We need to hire an operative to do research, you see what I mean? We need somebody that can get at...
- Susan Stanton: Investigate our lives.
- Richard Jemmons: Investigate everything anybody can make an allegation about.
- Lucille Kaufman: Well, that's ridiculous. We don't play that game. That's the media's game. We play the people's game. We say to them, "The Republicans and the media, they want the election to be about trash. We want it to be about your future." We don't shoot doves in this campaign, Richard. We protect them.
- Richard Jemmons: [confused] What do you mean?
- Lucille Kaufman: Well, don't the doves represent the people?
- Richard Jemmons: No.
- Lucille Kaufman: Well, then I don't understand who the doves are.
- Susan Stanton: Forget the doves.