Advise & Consent (1962)

Walter Pidgeon: Senate Majority Leader

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• Bob Munson : Mr. President, with the chair's permission, I shall be very brief.

  The Vice President : The chair gladly gives any senator permission to be brief.

• Fred Van Ackerman : What I did was for the good of the country.

  Bob Munson : Fortunately, our country always manages to survive patriots like you.

• Bob Munson : Was that Brig? What's the matter?

  Senator Lafe Smith : [Hanging up phone]  He's dead.

  Bob Munson : Brig?

  Senator Lafe Smith : In his office. Cut his throat.

• Senate Majority Leader : [referring to the balance of power of the three branches of Federal gvernment]  ... that none can become absolute has made this government the miracle of the ages. We must always guard this balance...

• Bob Munson : He jumped the whale!

• [last lines] 

  Bob Munson : Senators. A great leader is dead. A bitter loss for our country. A bitter personal loss for all of us here. I move we adjurn out of respect until further notice.

  Senator Seabright Cooley : So ordered!

• Bob Munson : What do you think about that, you old buzzard?

  Senator Seabright Cooley : Us old buzzards can see a mouse dying from 10,000 feet up. Us old buzzards have the sharpest eyes in creation. Right now I'm studyin' the terrain.

• Bob Munson : [to Brig about the President withdrawing Leffingwell]  He'll bend if he has to, and I guess he has to.

• The President : I guess I've been wrong in many many things. I don't suppose history will have much good to say of me. I can't dwell on that. I've done my best.

  Bob Munson : You're one of the great Presidents, Ross.

  The President : Well, if you think so, that's almost as good as History. Bye, Bobby.

  Bob Munson : Good night, Mr. President.

• Bob Munson : [Confronted by Fred for avoiding his phone calls]  Look, Fred, you've forced me to offend you. I'm sorry.