Presidents don't threaten.

"Jack Jones": What the hell are we gonna do about the Communists right here in our own backyard?

Nixon:What do you really mean, Jack?

"Jack Jones": I mean I got federal price controls on my oil.

And the rag heads are beating the shit out of me, Dick.

And your E.P.A. environmental agency has got its thumb so far up my ass it's scratchin' my ear...

John Erlichman [to Nixon]: Sir, it's time for us to be...

"Jack Jones": I got a federal judge orderin' me to bus my grandklds halfway across this town to go to school with some ****er klds.

Now, Dick... Mr. President...aren't you forgetting who put you where you are?

Nixon:The American people put me where I am, Jack.

Really? Well, that can be changed.

Associate of "Jack Jones":In a heartbeat.

Nixon: Jack, I've learned politics is the art of compromise.

I learned it the hard way. I don't know if you have.

Well, let me tell you this, Jack: if you don't like it, there's an election in November and you can take your money out in the open and give it to Wallace.

How about it, Jack? Willing to do that?

Hand this country over to some pansy poet socialist like George McGovern?

And if you're not happy with the E.P.A. up your ass, try the I.R.S.

"Jack Jones": Goddamn, Dick.

You're not threatening me, are ya?

Nixon:Presidents don't threaten, Jack.

They don't have to.


From "Nixon" (1995) Dir. Oliver Stone