- Governor of Idaho: I'm getting tired of all this moral high ground stuff. I prefer rolling around in the muck; you meet more interesting people there.
- Jim Kalla: I rode the buses back in the 60s to bring people together. Seems pretty unfashonable nowadays.
- Kenya Nkomo: Your wife - she's Jewish, ain't she?
- Jim Kalla: You know, I've forgotten what she is. All I know... is that we met on the back of a bus.
- The President: [after deciding on a deadline that won't interfere with "All My Children"] It was almost half a century ago that another president , Dwight D. Eisenhower, found it necessary to use US troops to enforce the constitutional rights of the US government... If necessary I will do the same. I am therefore declaring a deadline of 67 and a half hours from now...
- Alan Manieski: [In news room] 67 and a... WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?
- The President: ...by which time the state of Idaho must comply with the constitutional prerogatives of these United States of America as they were delineated by our founding fathers.
- Governor of Idaho: [At Idaho Capitol Building] What an asshole.
- Mel Burgess: He's closing the borders, people! Thank God for arrogance, lust, and greed or we'd all be doing infomercials.
- Chief of Staff: In Florida, only 38 percent are in favor of strong action. Most of them are over the age of 75; statistically, most of them will be dead by the next election.
- Militia Leader: Sure, you can use our bedroom. It's down the hall; turn left at the rocket launcher.
- Jack Buchan: This president is going to end up as confused as a goat on Astroturf if we're not careful.
- Governor of Idaho: She's pregnant. I'm gonna be a father. And if it's a boy, we're gonna name it... Juan Pablo Farley!
- Mel Burgess: What are you getting unraveled for? We're inside, not outside!
- NewsNet Assistant: You don't get it, do you, Mel? It's all outside now.
- Governor of Idaho: [Addressing the assembled media] You all know that I've just ordered the borders of Idaho to be closed. Now this action is being implemented to preserve our way of life - 'the American dream' - that has been falsely and cynically held out to the entire rest of the world, which has grown by a billion people in merely the last 10 years - count 'em, folks - one billion - Standing room only from Maine to California. And by, by allowing the stampede of whatever you want to call them - immigrants, refugees, illegals, legals, migrants aliens you name it - we are being swamped. And we are destroying our own way of life. At a time when the business community has presided over the wholesale destruction of our manufacturing capabilities - shipped it overseas in the name of efficiency - we are told that we have to stand by and let the rest of the world flood into America...!
- Governor of Idaho: [he continues] And now, this group of activists who've decided on their own to bring into Idaho thousands and thousands of these unfortunate Pakistani children who've been orphaned by that terrible war and have, in effect, told us - the government and people of this State - to mind our own business. Well, as it turns out, that is exactly what I intend to do. I was not elected by the people of Idaho to preside over the dissolution of our way of life, therefore, I am taking control of all matters relating to our own borders, and to immigration and citizenship.
- Jim Kalla: I read years ago that someone once said that those whom the gods destroy they first make mad. Or maybe it's just that we're an unfinished piece of art. Part tragedy, part comedy, part joy, part farce, a work in progress. But for the moment we're still painting and writing in blood. And it always seems to come out of a lot of suffering and someday, after it all dries, it will be magnificent. But until then, like all art, it's messy as hell.