Thirteen Days (2000)

Frank Wood: McGeorge Bundy

Quotes 

• McGeorge Bundy : I need to see the president, Kenny.

  Kenny O'Donnell : All right: 2:30 to 2:45 or 4:30 to 5:00 - take your pick.

  McGeorge Bundy : No, I need to see him now, Ken.

  Kenny O'Donnell : Then go on up - I'll let him know you're coming.

• McGeorge Bundy : These people are right, and the Kennedys are wrong. We need you to talk to them - they'll listen to you. Jack and Bobby are good men but it takes a certain amount of...

  Kenny O'Donnell : You mean the president of the United States-?

  McGeorge Bundy : They are good men...

  Kenny O'Donnell : -and the attorney general?

  McGeorge Bundy : Kenny, they're good men but it takes a certain character - moral toughness - to stand up to the Soviets.

  Kenny O'Donnell : [whispering]  You listen to me. You're in the White House right now because of the Kennedys. Now, they may be wrong; they make mistakes, but they are not weak. The weak ones are these people who can't seem to speak their own minds.

  McGeorge Bundy : You know I don't mean that they're weak.

  Kenny O'Donnell : [shouting]  No, they just lack a "moral toughness"? Jesus Christ, Mac! And you, you think I'll play your Judas for you. You've never understood us, your kind - we've been fighting with each other our whole lives, but nobody plays us off each other, and nobody ever, *ever* gets between us!