The Assassination of Richard Nixon Quotes

The Assassination of Richard Nixon is a TV show that first aired in 1970 . The Assassination of Richard Nixon completed its run in 1970.

It features Alfonso Cuarón as producer, Steven M. Stern in charge of musical score, and Emmanuel Lubezki as head of cinematography.

The Assassination of Richard Nixon is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Assassination of Richard Nixon is 95 minutes long. The Assassination of Richard Nixon is distributed by ThinkFilm.

The cast includes: Sean Penn as Samuel Bicke, Michael Wincott as Julius Bicke, Jack Thompson as Jack Jones, Mykelti Williamson as Harold Mann, and Don Cheadle as Bonny Simmons.

The Assassination of Richard Nixon Quotes

Sean Penn as Samuel Bicke

• (Sean Penn) "What about my rights?"
• (Don Cheadle) "You got a right to be mad."

• (Sean Penn) "It's about money, Dick."
• (Sean Penn) "It's about -- money, Dick."
• (Sean Penn) "It's about money. It's about money, Dick. It's about mon-ey, Dick. Money."

• (Sean Penn) "My name is Sam Bicke, and I consider myself a grain of sand. On this beach called America there are 211 million grains of sand. Three billion on the beach we call Earth. If I am lucky, if I am lucky, the action that I am about to take"
• (Sean Penn) "will show the powerful that even the least grain of sand has is him the power to destroy them."

• (Sean Penn) "I wanna throw an idea at you. Zebras."
• (Mykelti Williamson) "Zebras?"
• (Sean Penn) "Zebras. You see, they're black, and they're white. The Black Panthers become The Zebras, and membership will double."

• (Sean Penn) "Who are these men? Who are these men, maestro, who keep us waiting at their feet? The meek shall not inherit the earth. The earth belongs to the bullies who do not care how they get to the top, as long as they arrive. I am an honest man, and if that is to be my undoing then so be it -- but I will not go quietly."

• (Sean Penn) "Testing. Testing. Testing. One, two, three. Mr. Maestro, Leonard Bernstein, tape number one."

• (Sean Penn) "Slavery never really ended in this country. It just gave it another name -- Em-plo-yee."

• (Sean Penn) "I'm just, I'm trying to keep my family together -- and that little guy can't do it anymore, he just can't do it anymore. Because there's is, there's a cancer -- in the system, the whole system has a cancer and I'm being punished because I resist. But somebody has to resist, just somebody has to resist."

• (Sean Penn) "It wasn't like a light bulb, really. It was more like an old candle, you know, just a plain, simple idea."

• (Sean Penn) "The government is looking for black business men."
• (Don Cheadle) "I been here 15 years and they ain't found me yet."

• (Sean Penn) "Mr. Bernstein, sir there are people who sit and wait their lives away on the promise of the dream that will not come -- they are the sheep."

• (Sean Penn) "What happened, Mr. Bernstein -- to the land of plenty. When there's plenty for the few, and nothing for the plenty. Is that the American Dream?"

Michael Wincott as Julius Bicke

• (Michael Wincott) "As of this moment, I wash my hands of you."

Jack Thompson as Jack Jones

• (Jack Thompson) "You look like a family man, Sam -- not some schmuck with a p***** on his face."

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