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Senator Roark
- Senator Roark: [poker scene] I favored your mother, she was a whore, and not a very good one.
- Johnny: She was an angel.
- Johnny: - I'm all in...
- Senator Roark: - Call...
- Senator Roark: [shows: Four Kings]
- Johnny: [shows: Four Aces]
- Johnny: See, I told you, I never lose.
- Johnny: I beat you, twice. That means I'm better than you are, and everybody knows it because I beat you again. Every time somebody tells this story - and they'll all say they won't tell it but they will - That's the story that will be told, again and again until you're dead... and after you're dead. I beat you forever.
- Johnny: And they all know what happens when you do.
- Senator Roark: [pulls out gun] Say hello to your mama. She always was a stupid bitch.
- [shoots Johnny in the center of his forehead]
- Senator Roark: If I could give any young man advice it'd be this: Always wear a rubber.
- Senator Roark: Now take out the trash! Let's get back to the game!
- Senator Roark: I'm holding a gun on you, young lady. The rules are, you pretend there's a chance I *won't* shoot you.
- Senator Roark: Frankly, between you and me, I've finally accepted that Ethan was not presidential material. I'd have had a hard time buying him an election in an insane asylum. But he was my son, honey. He was my son. And now... he's gonna hear you scream. Scream.
- Senator Roark: Power is a fragile thing. It tolerates no threat. Defiance must be met with an example of the wages of defiance.
- [thugs maim his hands]
- Johnny: You'd be smart to kill me now.
- Senator Roark: I'll do far worse than kill you.