Russ Cargill Quotes in The Simpsons Movie (2007)

Russ Cargill: Anyone can pick something when they know what it is; It takes real leadership to pick something you're clueless about.

President Schwarzenegger: Ok, I pick 3!

Russ Cargill: Try again.

President Schwarzenegger: 1!

Russ Cargill: Go higher.

President Schwarzenegger: 5?

Russ Cargill: Too high.

President Schwarzenegger: 3?

Russ Cargill: You already said 3.

President Schwarzenegger: 6?

Russ Cargill: There is no 6.

President Schwarzenegger: 2?

Russ Cargill: Double it.

President Schwarzenegger: 4!

Russ Cargill: As you wish, sir.

Russ Cargill: [enters the Oval Office] President Schawarzenegger.

President Schwarzenegger: Ja. That is me.

Russ Cargill: The pollution in Springfield has reached crisis levels.

President Schwarzenegger: Ach! Everything is "crisis this" and "end-of-the-world that"! No one opens with a joke! I miss Danny DeVito.

Russ Cargill: You like jokes, huh? Well, stop me if you've heard this one.

[holds up cage with the mutant squirrel]

President Schwarzenegger: [gasp] Look at all those angry eyes and pointy teeth! It's like Christmas at the Kennedy Compound!

Russ Cargill: Mr. President, you chose me, Russ Cargill, most successful man in America, to head the EPA, the least successful government agency. Why did I take the job? Because I'm just a rich guy who wants to kick some ass for good old Mother Earth. I want to give something back. Not the money, but something. That's why I've narrowed your choices down to five unthinkable options.

[spreads the files on the President's desk]

Russ Cargill: Each one will cause untold misery and...

President Schwarzenegger: [points to File #3] I pick Number Three!

Russ Cargill: Really? You don't want to read them first?

President Schwarzenegger: I was elected to *lead*, not to *read*. Number Three!

Russ Cargill: [levels a shotgun at Homer and Bart]

Russ Cargill: Hello, Homer.

Homer Simpson: So, we meet at last, whoever you are.

Russ Cargill: There's a couple of things they don't teach you in Harvard Business School, one is how to cope with defeat, the other is how to handle a shotgun, I'm going to do both right now.

Bart Simpson: Wait! But if you kill my dad, you'll never know where the treasure is buried!

Russ Cargill: What treasure?

Bart Simpson: Uhm, the treasure of Ima Wiener.

Russ Cargill: I'm a wiener?

[Homer and Bart laugh]

Homer Simpson: Classic!

Russ Cargill: Well, always leave them laughing. Goodbye, sir.

[Cargill aims the shotgun, right as he is about to fire a boulder falls on him KOing him, the camera pans up to show Maggie]

Homer Simpson: Maggie! What a great little accident you turned out to be!

[Maggie winks and does a hand gun at Homer]

Russ Cargill: I want ten thousand tough guys, and I want ten thousand soft guys to make the tough guys look tougher.

Russ Cargill: I was tricked by an idiot!

Cletus: Hey, I know how you feel; I was beat in tic-tac-toe by a chicken.

Russ Cargill: Springfield has become...

Man: Woooo! Springfield!

Russ Cargill: ...the most polluted city in the history of the planet.

Krusty the Clown: Drama queen!

Moe: What are you telling us, were trapped like rats?

Russ Cargill: No, rats can't be trapped this easily, you're trapped like... carrots.

EPA Official: S-sir, I'm afraid you've gone mad with power...

Russ Cargill: Of course I have. You ever tried going mad without power? It's boring. No one listens to you!

Russ Cargill: Your government has realized that sealing you under this dome was a terrible mistake. Therefore, we are commencing with Operation Soaring Eagle

[crowd cheers]

Russ Cargill: ... which involves killing you all.

Cletus: [after showing Cargill a trick with his thumb] You want to know how I do it?

Russ Cargill: Four generations of inbreeding?

Cletus: [Flattered] Oh, you.

Russ Cargill: My name is Russ Cargill and I'm the head of the EPA.

Moe: The what?

Russ Cargill: Environmental Protection Agency.

Lenny: Come again?

Russ Cargill: Look, I'm a man on a big TV. Just listen.