Lewis:
They don't have a choice! Bob Rumson is the only one doing the talking! People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand.

President Shepherd:
Lewis, we've had presidents who were beloved, who couldn't find a coherent sentence with two hands and a flashlight. People don't drink the sand because they're thirsty. They drink the sand because they don't know the difference.

To commit suicide in Buffalo is redundant 

Let this be a lesson on the toxicity of anger

You're dad and I had a long talk and we agreed it would be best for all of us if you just stop being who you are and doing the things you love

Marketing is manipulation and deceit. It tries to turn people into something they aren’t – individuals focused solely on themselves, maximising their consumption of goods that they don’t need.

The advertising industry's prime task is to ensure that uninformed consumers make irrational choices, thus undermining market theories that are based on just the opposite.

This is the most tactless speech I have ever heard. The Germans are really a stupid people. They always do the wrong thing.

Frequently in error, never in doubt (said of cosmologists...)

If Landau would have been here he would have stopped you after twenty seconds