Channing Tatum credited as playing...
Cale
- Finnerty: There's a series of tunnels. JFK used them to sneak Marilyn Monroe in.
- Cale: I thought that was a myth.
- President Sawyer: It's true.
- Cale: Donnie's gonna be pissed.
- Cale: I got three rounds. Tell me you got some weapons in the residence.
- President Sawyer: No, we usually have two agents right there with machine guns. We got some knives in the kitchen.
- Cale: What?
- President Sawyer: They're big knives.
- Cale: Great, then you can make me a sandwich.
- Stenz: Your little bitch says you're gonna put me in jail!
- [a few minutes later, Stenz has the upper hand]
- Stenz: I'm gonna *carve my name into your chest*!
- [a few minutes later, Cale has the upper hand]
- Cale: No jail for you, you little bitch!
- [Roars Stenz in the face like the Hulk]
- Stenz: NO... NO... NO
- [blows up Stenz with a belt of unpinned grenades]
- [Raphelson's treachery has been exposed]
- Cale: You are a goddamn traitor, sir.
- Raphelson: You dim little shit! I hired you out of pity and this is how you repay me? Now when the country finds out that your beloved President helped a maniac open the nuclear football, who do think they'll believe? Now you, you would be a *nobody* whereas *I* am the President of the United States.
- President Sawyer: Oh no, you're not!
- Donnie the Guide: Oil painting by Tom Freeman to commemorate the burning of the White House by the British in 1814.
- Cale: Wait, the White House burned down?
- Donnie the Guide: Yeah, yeah, in the War of 1812. Practically had to be rebuilt from the ground up. When I look at this painting, I get very emotional.
- Emily: I think I need avail myself of one of the 35 bathrooms in here.
- Donnie the Guide: [amused laugh] There's a ladies' room downstairs.
- Cale: Where? I'll take her.
- Emily: I can go by myself, John. I'm not a child.
- Cale: Hey, just don't touch anything, or-or wander off or talk to anybody that you shouldn't be talking to.
- Emily: I make no promises.
- Cale: Do you know these men?
- President Sawyer: That old son of a bitch that just killed everybody, his name is Martin Walker. He's also the head of my Secret Service.
- Cale: Maybe you should have a conversation with him about how serious you take your protection detail.
- President Sawyer: I didn't pick him.
- Cale: Why is he doing this?
- President Sawyer: I think it has something to do with his son, Kevin.
- Cale: Why? What happened?
- President Sawyer: He was a Marine, and he got killed last year in this covert action that I ordered.
- Cale: Would he do all this for a personal vendetta? He said he wanted you alive.
- President Sawyer: There's gotta be a bigger play. We gotta get out of this elevator shaft. I'm, uh...
- Cale: Don't tell me you're claustrophobic.
- President Sawyer: Your daughter's smart. You should listen to her.
- Cale: She was, like, three when I enlisted. And to be honest with you, I was probably just running from my marriage. Right after I deployed, Emily was watching TV, and there was coverage on the troops in Afghanistan. She swears to me that she saw me. After that point, she became obsessed with politics. And that's when she first saw you. The man that was gonna bring Daddy home. And when I finally did come home, I realized that... I'm not her hero anymore. So I guess I just figured that I'd try to help protect the man that is.
- President Sawyer: Well, if she saw you today, Cale, she'd be proud of you.
- Cale: You know how when they're young and they come running up to you and they hug you with all their might, and they're shouting "Daddy," and all of a sudden, one day, that just stops?
- President Sawyer: Yeah.
- Cale: I'd give anything for that hug just one more time.
- Cale: So, what's it like being president?
- President Sawyer: It's not like anything. Once you get into office, it's all about re-election, and what the other side can use against you.
- Cale: Politics.
- President Sawyer: You don't start out a politician, but you become one. Just once, though, I wanna do something that's presidential. Something along the lines of Lincoln, Washington, and Jefferson.
- Cale: You wanna make history.
- President Sawyer: No. Not history. I wanna make a difference. If your little daughter says that I'm her hero, then I gotta earn that.
- Cale: Are you okay?
- President Sawyer: [showing his pocketwatch] Honest Abe. My wife got this for me. For the inauguration.
- Cale: [laughing, seeing the bullet in the back] Are you kidding me? You got shot in the wa...
- President Sawyer: What I'm telling you is that good old Abe took a second bullet for me.
- Cale: [after a laugh, they shake hands] Thank you. Thank you for what you did for Emily.
- President Sawyer: It's my sacrifice, right?