“You don't have to be smart to act — look at the outgoing president of the United States.”
Cher (1946) American singer and actress
Remark (December 1988), reported in Brewer's Cinema (1995)
“To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.”
Act II
Buchanan Dying (1974)
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