White House Down (2013)

Jamie Foxx: President Sawyer

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Quotes 

• President Sawyer : Martin, as the President of the United States, this comes with the full weight, power and authority of my office. Fuck you.

• President Sawyer : I lost the rocket launcher.

  Cale : You lost... How do you lose a rocket launcher?

• President Sawyer : [while fighting a terrorist]  Get your hands off my Jordans!

• 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.

• Raphelson : You can't do this! I am still the President of the United States!

  President Sawyer : Then consider this a coup d'état!

  President Sawyer : [to Gen. Caufield]  Get this trash off my lawn!

  Raphelson : [as he is being dragged off]  You won't get away with this. I have friends, powerful friends!

  President Sawyer : And I'll make sure every single one of them joins you in prison!

  Raphelson : [rants]  You son of a bitch! You're not FIT to hold this office! You sold out this country by making a deal with the goddamn Arabs!

• [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!

• [last lines] 

  Finnerty : Henry, the President wants to do the thing.

  President Sawyer : Hold on tight.

• President Sawyer : Cale... I'm not leaving without my protection

• General Caulfield : Sir, I not sure using heavy artillery is a wise...

  President Sawyer : I DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK IS WISE... YOU GET THAT TANK... YOU PUT A HOLE IN THE GOD-DAMN FENCE RIGHT NOW

• 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 : [flying over the Lincoln Memorial]  Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. president who was in favor of women having the vote? As a matter of fact, he wrote a paper on suffrage while he was still in the Illinois legislature.

  Finnerty : Yes, I did know that, because you tell me every time we do this.

• Cale : All right, look, we gotta get you to a phone. And you call SEAL Team Six, and they come in here and they'll shoot these assholes in the head.

  President Sawyer : We keep a scrambled satphone in the residence.

  Cale : Great. Where's that at?

  [Sawyer points to an elevator door just above their heads] 

  Cale : Of course it is. You ever been rock climbing?

  President Sawyer : What, we climbing this?

  Cale : Unless you got a better idea, yeah.

• Jenna : John, have you heard what's happening? It-it's so not a good time.

  Cale : Jenna, do not hang up on me. I'm with the president. We're in the White House.

  Jenna : That's not funny, John.

  Cale : No... does this sound like a joke to you? Yeah, he's...

  President Sawyer : [taking the phone]  Jenna, this is James Sawyer. For the past ten minutes, I've been getting shot at with this young man, so if you could connect me to whatever command and control structure we still have left, I would really appreciate it.

  Jenna : Um...

  President Sawyer : And let 'em know...

  Jenna : Um... hold on.

  President Sawyer : That the president... hello? Th-thank you.

  Cale : She hung up?

  President Sawyer : She, uh, put me on hold when I was thanking her.

• Cale : Okay, I'm gonna have to get that out.

  President Sawyer : When did you become a doctor all of a sudden?

  Cale : [handing over his flashlight]  Hold that.

  President Sawyer : Look, just talk to me. Get my mind off it. Talk to me about your daughter.

  Cale : Emily? She's completely in love with you. She even tried to get me to vote for you.

  President Sawyer : You didn't vote for me?

• 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?

• Finnerty : Sir, I have the First Lady for you.

  President Sawyer : [turning off the news]  Remind me again why we let these guys broadcast from our lawn.

  Finnerty : Freedom of the press.

  President Sawyer : You know what? I knew it was something.

• Cale : [escaping from Stenz in Cadillac One]  What the hell are you getting in the back for?

  President Sawyer : [getting in the front]  Sorry, force of habit.