Lewis Rothschild Quotes in The American President (1995)

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Lewis Rothschild Quotes:

  • Lewis Rothschild: [in the Oval Office] You have a deeper love of this country than any man I've ever known. And I want to know what it says to you that in the past seven weeks, 59% of Americans have begun to question your patriotism.

    President Andrew Shepherd: Look, if the people want to listen to-...

    Lewis Rothschild: 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 Andrew 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.

  • A. J. MacInerney: [in the Oval Office] The President doesn't answer to you, Lewis!

    Lewis Rothschild: Oh, yes he does A.J. I'm a citizen, this is my President. And in this country it is not only permissible to question our leaders it's our responsibility!

  • Lewis Rothschild: But we're not gonna stay at 41. The numbers are gonna go back up.

    [listens]

    Lewis Rothschild: But they're gonna go back up.

    [listens]

    Lewis Rothschild: All right George...

    [listens]

    Lewis Rothschild: Congressman...

    [listens]

    Lewis Rothschild: Congressman Jarrett...

    [listens]

    Lewis Rothschild: Look George, listen to me... it's crunch time. It's personal. This is one of those moments. It's just you and the President. Now what's it gonna be? Yeah.

    [listens]

    Lewis Rothschild: Yeah.

    [shakes his head as he listens]

    Lewis Rothschild: All right George, can I tell you something? We're gonna win this thing. We're gonna get the votes we need and we're gonna win this thing. And you know what I'm gonna do after that, I mean that very night, I'm gonna go to Sam & Harry's, I'm gonna order a big steak, and I'm gonna make a list of everybody who tried to *fuck*

    [slams pop can off his desk with a fist]

    Lewis Rothschild: us this week!

    Robin McCall: Lewis!

    Lewis Rothschild: [into phone] Well just Vote your conscience, you chicken-shit, lame-ass...

    [slams the phone down]

    Lewis Rothschild: [continuing to Robin and Leon] We lost Jarrett.

    Leon Kodak: [beat] I hope so. 'Cause, you know, if that was an "undecided," then we need to work on our people skills.

  • Lewis Rothschild: [in the Oval Office] Who're we calling, sir?

    President Andrew Shepherd: I'm calling the Organization of the United Brotherhood of It's None of Your Damn Business, Lewis. I'll be with you in a second.

  • [after President Shepherd's speech]

    Leon Kodak: Well, you don't see that every day of the week.

    Lewis Rothschild: He's got the whole White House press corps asking each other how to spell erudite!

    A.J.: Better call the printer, Lewis.

    Lewis Rothschild: I know, we gotta rewrite the State of the Union.

    A.J.: Every word, kid. It's a whole new ballgame. You have exactly 35 minutes.

    Lewis Rothschild: [sarcastically, jokingly] Oh, good, I thought I was gonna be rushed!

  • Lewis Rothschild: [in the president's limo called the beast, the President wants to get flowers for Sydney] At least let the agents do a security sweep. We don't know who's in there!

    President Andrew Shepherd: You think there's a florist in there planning an assassination on the the off-chance that I might be stopping by?

    Lewis Rothschild: It's possible.

  • Lewis Rothschild: [in the president's limo called the beast] I tell any girl I'm going out with to assume that all plans are soft until she receives confirmation from me thirty minutes beforehand.

    Robin McCall: And they find this romantic?

    Lewis Rothschild: Well, I say it with a great deal of charm.

  • President Andrew Shepherd: [while walking to the Oval Office] Lewis, however much coffee you drink in the morning, I want you to reduce it by half.

    Lewis Rothschild: I don't drink coffee, sir.

    President Andrew Shepherd: Then hit yourself over the head with a baseball bat, would you please?

  • Robin McCall: It's Christmas.

    Lewis Rothschild: It's Christmas?

    Leon Kodak: [sarcastically, jokingly] Yeah. You didn't get the memo?

  • Lewis Rothschild: [in his bedroom] Can I just state very clearly I can't be part of anything illegal.

    A.J.: Good for you, Lewis.

    Lewis Rothschild: Say what you want. It's always the guy in my job that ends up doing 18 months in Danbury minimum security prison.

  • Leon Kodak: [cut to conversation in progress] You see, the country has mood swings.

    Lewis Rothschild: Mood swings? Nineteen post-graduate degrees in mathematics, and your best explanation for going from a 63 to a 46 percent approval rating in five weeks is mood swings?

    Leon Kodak: Well, I could explain it better, but I'd need charts, and graphs, and an easel.

  • President Andrew Shepherd: She's questioning your loyalty.

    Lewis Rothschild: Hell, I question it all the time.

  • Robin McCall: [in the Oval Office] Buenas Dias, Senior Presidente.

    President Andrew Shepherd: Too tall McCall, how was Mexico?

    Robin McCall: I didn't truly appreciate it until I came back and discovered that America isn't a great society?

    Lewis Rothschild: He dumped a whole section.

  • Robin McCall: [in the Oval Office] How do you want me to handle the "Sydney issue?"

    [Shepherd looks up]

    President Andrew Shepherd: The "Sydney issue?"

    Lewis Rothschild: We should have a consensus on how the White House is going to handle it.

    President Andrew Shepherd: Well I sure hope the "Sydney issue" refers in some way to a problem we're having with Australia, because if it's anything other than that...

    [Janie pokes her head in]

    Janie: Mr. President? Ms. Wade is here to see you.

    President Andrew Shepherd: Send her in, please. I'm finished here.

    Janie: Yes, sir.

    President Andrew Shepherd: [to Lewis and McCall] There is no "Sydney issue."

  • President Andrew Shepherd: [in the Oval Office] Two hundred and sixty four million Americans...

    Lewis Rothschild: Two hundred and sixty four million Americans don't give a damn about your life, they give a damn about their own, Mr. President, you raised a daughter, almost entirely on your own, and she's terrific so what does it say to you in the past seven weeks, fifty nine percent of Americans question your family values

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