Dave (1993)

Frank Langella: Bob Alexander

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• Bob Alexander : What do you think you're doing?

  Dave : What? Oh, you mean the press conference. I had a couple of ideas that I wanted to share with the country.

  Bob Alexander : Share? Share? You don't call a press conference. I call a press conference. You're nothing. Do you understand? You're nobody.

  Dave : I'm not nobody.

  Bob Alexander : You're LINT! You're a FLEA! You're a BLIP!

  Dave : Well... maybe I am.

  [stands] 

  Dave : But you're fired.

  Bob Alexander : ...What?

  Dave : I said, you're fired. Go on, get out of here.

  Bob Alexander : Oh, *I'm* fired?

  Dave : Yeah.

  Bob Alexander : *You're* fired!

  Dave : ...Fine.

  Bob Alexander : "Fine"?

  Dave : Fine.

  [goes to the door leading to the Press Room] 

  Dave : The whole Press Corps is right outside. Should I tell them, or did you want to?

  [Bob is speechless] 

• Dave : [after reciting Bob Alexander's charges against him]  Okay, let's get right to the guts of it: every one of these accusations is absolutely true.

  [a sensation passes through the House. Cut to Bob's home, as he and his supporters are watching this on TV; several of them clap him on the back] 

  Bob Alexander : HO, HO, HO! Die, you pond scum!

  Dave : I'm the President, and as they say, the buck stops here. So I take full responsibility for each one of my illegal actions. But that's not the whole story. I think the American people are entitled to the real truth.

  [opens his briefcase] 

  Dave : I have here evidence in the form of notes, letters, and written memoranda, proving that Bob Alexander was involved in each of these illegal acts, and in most cases planned them as well.

  [Cut to Bob's house, where a murmur passes through Bob's supporters, and some of them head for the door] 

  Bob Alexander : Alan.

  Dave : Now, allegations of wrongdoing have also been made against Vice President Nance. Now, as this evidence will prove, at no time and in no way was the Vice President involved in any of this affair. Bob just made all that up. Vice President Nance is a good and decent public servant, and I want to apologize for any pain that this has caused him or his family.

  [Dave turns and offers his hand. Nance stands and takes it. As they shake, the House applauds. Cut to Bob's home, now empty except for him, as he watches the TV] 

• Alan Reed : Bob, at some point we're gonna have to call the Vice President.

  Bob Alexander : Don't call the Vice President.

  Alan Reed : What?

  Bob Alexander : Just don't call him, Al.

  Alan Reed : The guy's in a coma, Bob!

  Bob Alexander : I don't give a shit.

  Alan Reed : Bob!

  Bob Alexander : This is mine, Alan. All mine. I made him, I built him. And no Boy Scout is going to come in here and take it away from me, just because he happens to be Vice President of the United States.

• Bob Alexander : I'm going to kill him.

  Alan Reed : You can't kill a President.

  Bob Alexander : He's not a President. He's an ordinary person. I can kill an ordinary person.

  Alan Reed : Bob!

  Bob Alexander : I can kill a hundred ordinary people!

• [on the balcony, being fed lines by Bob and Al, they try to tell him to leave] 

  Alan Reed : Go!

  Bob Alexander : Go, go!

  Dave : [raises a fist]  Go, go, go!

  [the reporters look confused] 

• Alan Reed : [Dave cut $656 million from the Federal Budget, to Bob's anger]  He was only doing his job.

  Bob Alexander : HIS JOB? It's NOT his job, it's *MY JOB*!

  Alan Reed : Calm down.

  Bob Alexander : Was he on the Trilateral Commission? Was he a Senator? Was he on "Who's Who in Washington" nine years in a row?

  Bob Alexander : [beat]  I'll shred the bastard! I'll destroy him!

  Alan Reed : Don't do it!

  Bob Alexander : I'll lock him away for GOOD!

  Alan Reed : [firmly]  Then we'll ALL go to jail TOGETHER!

  Bob Alexander : What are you saying?

  Alan Reed : Exactly what you think I'm saying!

  Bob Alexander : [sternly]  Are you *threatening* me?

  Alan Reed : Yeah! I guess I am.

• Ellen Mitchell : [first encounter and public appearance]  Don't you have anything else you want to say to me?

  [repeated line] 

  Dave : Thank you for doing this, Ellen.

  Ellen Mitchell : Go to hell, Bill!

  [exits] 

  Dave : She hates me!

  Bob Alexander , Alan Reed : YES!

• Alan Reed : [trying to convince Dave to take the job]  Imagine that the entire United States of America is in the car.

  Dave : In the car?

  Alan Reed : In the car!

  Bob Alexander : And you've got to get it to the hospital.

• Bob Alexander : If you can find a way to cut $650 million off the Federal Budget, you can KEEP your *lousy shelters*!

  Bob Alexander : [as he is leaving]  And by the way. Don't you EVER send for me again!