# Movie quotes that can encapsulate this election year **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 22, 2004, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604 "2004-10-22T15:24:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/21 "2004-10-23T01:59:07Z")
How about some _Repo Man_? Look at 'em, ordinary fucking people, I hate 'em. I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees. The more you drive, the less intelligent you are. I’m glad I tortured you! I DO want your money, because god wants your money! It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes. No one is innocent. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/22 "2004-10-23T02:23:41Z")
Tombstone: (Doc Holliday) “I have not yet begun to defile myself.” Airplane: (Capt. Rex Kramer) “Do you know what it’s like to fall in the mud and get kicked, in the head, by an iron boot? Of course you don’t–no one does–that never happens.” Ed Wood: (Criswell) “We’re in showbiz. It’s all about razzle dazzle–appearances. If you look good and you talk well, people will swallow anything.” ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/23 "2004-10-23T04:19:11Z")
I’m only a poor corrupt official. They cannot be rescinded – not even questioned. I am shocked. _Shocked._ Oh, sir, things are very bad there. The devil has the people by the throat. We do not want our children to grow up in such a country. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/24 "2004-10-23T04:29:38Z")
I am…in a world…of shit. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/25 "2004-10-23T04:35:13Z")
They’d rather be alive than free, I guess. Poor dumb bastards. -FMJ ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/26 "2004-10-23T09:27:28Z")
“SIEG HEIL! SIEG HEIL!” ``` *- Triumph of the Will* ``` I’ll think of one for the Kerry campaign later. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/27 "2004-10-23T13:21:08Z")
> [@Evil Death](#): > > “SIEG HEIL! SIEG HEIL!” > > ``` > *- Triumph of the Will* > > ``` > > I’ll think of one for the Kerry campaign later. You just did. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/28 "2004-10-23T18:28:36Z")
Inspired by ^^^, “I know you are but what am I” from _Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure._ ---
**Author:** ![Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/29 "2004-10-23T18:30:32Z")
You’re fooling yourself. We’re living in a dictatorship, a self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes… ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/30 "2004-10-23T18:35:57Z")
“…shit…Shinola…shit…Shinola…” ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/31 "2004-10-23T18:39:15Z")
Andy Griffith from _A Face in the Crowd_: This whole country’s just like my flock of sheep! Hillbillies, hausfraus - everybody that’s got to jump when someone else blows a whistle! They’re mine! ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/32 "2004-10-23T19:07:48Z")
Great thread! I’d love to know what movies some of these quotes are coming from, though. If we can segue into TV quotes, I like this one from _Bewitched_: > [@](#): > > “That was a mean, low, sneaky, underhanded trick! –Yes, it was. And I’m quite pleased with myself.” Sums up the campaigning quite nicely, don’t you think? If you want to hear it, [here’s the audio](http://www.dailywav.com/1004/underhandedtrick.wav). ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2004, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/33 "2004-10-23T19:09:27Z")
Bah! They don’t allow linking directly to the sound files. To hear that last one, just go to [www.dailywav.com](http://www.dailywav.com/) and scroll down to October 19, 2003. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/34 "2004-10-24T12:16:00Z")
Not a quote, but two election year movies: WAG THE DOG about PR and “spin” and THE GREAT McGINTY about vote fraud. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/35 "2004-10-24T12:30:23Z")
The truth? You can’t handle the truth! ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/36 "2004-10-24T12:50:09Z")
I know that the Simpsons is not a movie, but the quote works so well. -Kent Brockman > [@](#): > > I’ve said it before. I’ll say it again. Democracy doesn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/37 "2004-10-25T03:16:23Z")
From two Dustin Hoffman flicks: **"Is it safe?"** “Plastic!” ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/38 "2004-10-25T03:17:58Z")
“Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges!” ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/39 "2004-10-25T05:26:42Z")
As with so many things in life, I find applicable wisdom and oceanic comfort in the words of Pulp Fiction. “One look at you and I can tell you’re an Elvis man.” (Mina Wallace, channelling Laura Bush to her husband.) “I’m sorry – did I break your concentration? You were saying something about “best intentions.” Oh-h-h – you were finished? Well, allow me to retort!” (Jules Winifred, channelling Jon Stewart after his Crossfire appearance). “Since then he’s kind of developed a speech impediment.” (Jules in a commentary on George W. Buch). “In the fifth, your ass ges down.” (Marsellius Wallace channelling the fervent hopes of most the Free World re: a Bush second presidency). “You’re gonna hear a little voice inside your head. That’s pride, fuckin witchoo.” (Marsellius, counseling Ralph Nader) “You’re gonna go out there, say good night, go home, jerk off, go to sleep.” (Vincent Vega – again, counseling Ralph Nader) “The truth is… you’re the weak – and I am the tyranny of evil men.” (Jules, channeling Dick Cheney to John Kerry.) “Zed’s dead, baby.” – (Butch, channeling the media’s watchfulness.) ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604/40 "2004-10-25T05:36:20Z")
C’ **MONNNN!** No mention of _Key Largo?_ Edward G. Robinson: “You hick! I’ll be back pulling strings to get guys elected mayor and governor before you ever get a 10-buck raise. Yeah, how many of those guys in office owe everything to me. I made them. Yeah, I made 'em, just like a – like a tailor makes a suit of clothes. I take a nobody, see? Teach him what to say. Get his name in the papers and pay for his campaign expenses. Dish out a lotta groceries and coal. Get my boys to bring the voters out. And then count the votes over and over again till they added up right and he was elected. Yeah – then what happens? Did he remember when the going got tough, when the heat was on? No, he didn’t wanna. All he wanted was to save his own dirty neck . . . Yeah, ‘Public Enemy,’ he calls me. Me, who gave him his ‘Public’ all wrapped up with a fancy bow on it.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quotes-that-can-encapsulate-this-election-year/270604.md?page=3)