Contender

Laine Hanson:
If we do that, we'll be as bad as them.

Kermit Newman:
We are as bad as them!

Shelly Runyon:
We're both sticking to our guns. The difference is, mine are loaded.

Laine Hanson:
It seems to me that all you can claim about me... claim, is that I had sex.

Shelly Runyon:
Deviant sex.

Laine Hanson:
Oh, deviant? Who says it was deviant?

Shelly Runyon:
I do. What I say the American people will believe. And do you know why? Because I will have a very big microphone in front of me.

President Jackson Evans:
Who doesn't want a shortcut to greatness?

Shelly Runyon:
Greatness is the orphan of urgency, Laine. Greatness only emerges when we need it most... in time of war or calamity. I can't ask somebody to be a Kennedy or a Lincoln. They were MEN created by their times. What I... What I can ask for... is the promise of greatness. And that, Madam Senator... you don't have.

Laine Hanson:
Well, then... I just wouldn't be using sex as leverage... if I were you, Sheldon. Because, you know, there's one thing you don't want. It's a woman with her finger on the button who isn't getting laid.

Kermit Newman:
The people of this nation can stomach quite a bit. But the one thing they can't stomach is the image of a vice president with a mouthful of cock.

Kermit Newman:
I want something EMBARRASSING! Something sexual! Little boys, midgets, that sort of thing! Cows! I don't give a goddamn!

President Jackson Evans:
Well, that's what I get for my Leftist tendencies.

Laine Hanson:
Come on, Kermit. If we do that, we are no better than he is.

Kermit Newman:
We are no better than he is!

Laine Hanson:
Principles only mean something when you stick to them when its inconvenient.

President Jackson Evans:
You're the future of the Democratic party. And you always will be.

President Jackson Evans:
Shut the f*** up Runyan.

Shelly Runyon:
So, how are Will and the boy?

Laine Hanson:
Let's forego the small talk today Shelly, I'm not in the mood.

Shelly Runyon:
Let the big talk begin.

Shelly Runyon:
There's a reason they call me honest Shell.

President Jackson Evans:
I should have come down here and pointed my finger your way...

President Jackson Evans:
... pointed my finger YOUR way, and asked "Have you no decency, sir?"