Gabriel Over the White House Quotes

Gabriel Over the White House is a TV show that first aired in 1970 . Gabriel Over the White House ended in 1970.

It features Walter Wanger as producer, William Axt in charge of musical score, and Bert Glennon as head of cinematography.

Gabriel Over the White House is recorded in English language and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Gabriel Over the White House is 86 minutes long. Gabriel Over the White House is distributed by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer.

The cast includes: Dickie Moore as Jimmy Vetter, Walter Huston as Hon. Judson Hammond - The President of the United States, and Franchot Tone as Hartley 'Beek' Beekman - Secretary to the President.

Gabriel Over the White House Quotes

Franchot Tone as Hartley 'Beek' Beekman - Secretary to the President

• (Pendola 'Pendie' Molloy) "I'm not a very religious person, Beek, but does it seem too fanciful to believe that God might've sent the angel Gabriel to do for Judd Hammond what He did for Daniel?"
• (Franchot Tone) "Gabriel? I thought he was the messenger of Wrath."
• (Pendola 'Pendie' Molloy) "Not always. To some he was the Angel of Revelations. A messenger sent from God to men."
• (Franchot Tone) "Huh -- Gabriel over the White House."

• (Franchot Tone) "The way he thinks is so simple and honest that it sounds -- sounds a little crazy."
• (Pendola 'Pendie' Molloy) "He's doing the things you wanted. And if he's mad, it's a divine madness. Look at the chaos and catastrophe the sane men of this world have brought about."

Walter Huston as Hon. Judson Hammond - The President of the United States

• (Walter Huston) "Gentlemen, I am here as a representative of the American people in their hour of darkest despair. A plant cannot be made to grow by watering the top alone and letting the roots go dry. The people of this country are the roots and the strongest trunk and the branches too. You have spent 4 billion dollars only to aggravate adversity. I ask for 4 billion dollars to restore buying power, stimulate purchases, restore prosperity. You have wasted precious days and weeks and years in futile discussion. We need action, immediate and effective action."
• (Sen. Langham - Senate Majority Leader) "Mr. President, there is a movement in Congress for your impeachment, hardly any time for making requests, however small."
• (Walter Huston) "Very well, I shall withdraw that request but I'd like to substitute with another. I ask you gentlemen to declare a state of national emergency, and to adjourn this Congress until normal conditions are restored. During the period of that adjustment I shall assume full responsibility for the government."
• (Sen. Langham - Senate Majority Leader) "Mr. President, this is dictatorship."
• (Walter Huston) "Senator Langham, words do not frighten me."
• (Sen. Langham - Senate Majority Leader) "But the United States of America is a democracy. We are not yet ready to give up the government of our time."
• (Walter Huston) "You have given it up. You've turned your backs, you've closed your ears to the appeals of the people. You've been traitors to the concept of democracy upon which this government was founded. I believe in democracy as Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln believed in democracy, and if what I plan to do in the name of the people makes me a dictator, then it is a dictatorship based on Jefferson's definition of democracy: a government for the greatest good of the greatest number."
• (Sen. Langham - Senate Majority Leader) "This Congress refuses to adjourn."
• (Walter Huston) "I think gentlemen you forget I am still the president of these United States. And as commandeer in chief of the Army and Navy, it is within the rights of the president to declare the country under MARTIAL LAW."

• (Walter Huston) "Good night, Mr. Vice-President. I hope you sleep well."
• (Vice President) "When did a Vice-President do anything else?"

• (Walter Huston) "The American people have risen before and they will rise again. Gentlemen, remember, our party promises a return to prosperity."

Dickie Moore as Jimmy Vetter

• (Dickie Moore) "I got a speech."
• (Walter Huston) "A speech? Let's hear it."
• (Dickie Moore) "I love my uncle Judd because he's going to cure the Depression and make everybody rich."

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