“- Martin Luther King Jr.: We need your involvement here, Mr. President. We deserve your help as citizens of this country. Citizens under attack.
- President Lyndon B. Johnson: Now, you listen to me. You listen to me. You're an activist. I'm a politician. You got one big issue. I got a hundred and one.”
David Oyelowo - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tom Wilkinson - President Lyndon B. Johnson

“- Jack Edwards: ...but to blame all this on a French philosopher who's been dead for 300 years, isn't that a little out of proportion? Maybe even a little eccentric?
- Sonia Hoffman: No. Not if I'm right.”
Sam Waterston - Jack Edwards
Liv Ullmann - Sonia Hoffman

“- Denzil Eisenhower: You cant be judge, jury, and executioner at the same time. It's just not the American way.
- Winston Churchill: Hey, you'll never get to be President if you're runnin' that kinda policy.”
Romany Malco - Denzil Eisenhower
Christian Slater - Winston Churchill

“You're a man with ideals. Well, I guess I better be going while you still got them.”

Mae West - Flower Belle Lee

“You have a right to have an ideal. Oh, I guess we all have one.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Jean