The Enemy Within (1994 TV Movie)

Dana Delany: Betsy Corcoran

Quotes 

• President William Foster : Well, Betsy, from one herd of jackals to the next.

  Betsy Corcoran : The cabinet, Mr. President. With 29% approval rating, you can't tell them what to do. If you don't build a consensus, you pay a price.

  President William Foster : I thought the cabinet was supposed to be the president's team.

• President William Foster : Where is it written that if your president's from the heartland, your vice-president has to be a back room boy from the east?

  Betsy Corcoran : It was a winning combination.

  President William Foster : But a terrible marriage. I should have gone with Charlie Potter. He gets things done.

• Col. MacKenzie 'Mac' Casey : I need to talk to you in person.

  Betsy Corcoran : You and everyone else.

• Col. MacKenzie 'Mac' Casey : Have you ever heard of a... classified covert exercise involving the military and the CIA called Slam Dunk? Could the president have approved this exercise without you having known?

  Betsy Corcoran : The political answer? Sure. The truth? No.

• Betsy Corcoran : Fire everybody in sight, the whole fucking cabinet.

  President William Foster : I can't fire the vice president, and I can't fire Jack Giddings. What's worse, I can't prove anything.

  Betsy Corcoran : What about these photographs?

  President William Foster : You want me to go on TV and say, I got these photos from the Russians of our bases, which incriminate the most popular hero in the United States. The vote to impeach would end gridlock. It'd be unanimous and bipartisan. And then Walter Kelly waltzes into the Oval Office through the front door.

• Col. MacKenzie 'Mac' Casey : Scorched tapes and ashes.

  Betsy Corcoran : Damn! At least it proves we're right. This thing does go deeper than the military.

  Col. MacKenzie 'Mac' Casey : It proves it to us-- not the country.