Protocol (1984) - Quotes

Tagline: [[funny; [Washington, D. C.|Washington; [diplomat] There's something ] going on in ].  Goldie's about to become a ].

The Emir: [[dressed]   Why are you ] like that!?

Sunny:   Because I'm an American!

Mrs. St. John:   Sunny, dear, are you coming?

Sunny:   Not quite, ma'am.

Ransome: [[say; [think]   You always ] what you ].

Sunny:   It's no big deal.  I just never understood why people—some people—don't say what they think.  Don't you say what you think?

Ransome:   Not always, no.

Sunny: [[read; [United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence; [Thomas Jefferson|''those'' guys]   Too bad.You know what I ] the other day?  The ]—I mean the real one, you know, the original, the one in the archives?  Boy, ] knew how to say what they thought.

Vice President Merck: [[plans]   Sunny, what are your ]?

Sunny: [[employment|job; [business; [sister; [dead]   I don't have any.  I mean, well, I have a ] at the Safari Club and Lou—well, he's my boss and he's really a nice guy and everything, but ] hasn't been so hot and I was kind of hoping for an advancement, you know, but the problem is that Lou's aunt works the cash register and his ]'s the hostess so I'm just gonna have to wait around until one of em quits or drops ].  I guess you know what that's like.

Vice President Merck: [''nods'']     Mm hmm.

reporter: [[vote; [President of the United States|president]   Did you ] for the ]?

Sunny:   Well, actually, I never voted.

reporters:   Never?

Sunny:   Right, never.

reporter: [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican; [Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]   Well, do you consider yourself to be a ] or a ]?

Sunny: [[American]   Look, I consider myself to be just an ].

Hilley:   I think she's running for office.

Hassler: [[dumb]   Come on.  Can you be that ] and run for office?

Sunny:   Well, you sure don't look like one.

Michael Ransome:   Like one what?

Sunny:   A middle-aged desk clerk.

Ransome: [[Middle East]   No, no; that's ] desk chief.

Lou Fox:   Nice, Sunny, very nice.  Thank you very much for showing up.

Sunny Davis:   Oh, geeze, am I late?

Lou: [[running]   How come you were ] like that if you didn't know you were late?

Sunny: [[Exercise]   ]!

Mr. Hilley: [[profanity|cursing; [languages] He was ] in at least four ].

Mr. Hilley: [[talk; [think; [TV; [Vice President of the United States|absolutely nothing important] Okay.  Okay, now, who can we get to go ] to the girl and impress her?  Come on, let's ], there must be someone—someone who's reasonably good-natured, has a reasonably high ]Q, and ] to do.

Sunny Davis: [[government; [Constitution of the United States|Constitution; [newspaper; [United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence; [money; [arms|guns; [kiss; [presents] You wanna know something?  That before I started to work for the ], I'd never read the ]?  I didn't even begin to know how things worked—I didn't.  I didn't read the ], except to look at my horoscope, and I never read the ]; but I know they had—the ones we're talking about, the "experts"—they all read it.  They just forgot what it's about—that it's about "We the People."  And that's me; I'm "We the People", and you're "We the People", and all of us, we're all "We the People", right?  So when they sell me that ten-cent diamond, or down the river, or-or to some guy who wears a lot of medals, that means they're selling all of us, all of "We the People."  And when they—I mean, when you guys—when you spend another pile of ], and when you give away or sell all those ] and tanks and planes, and every time you invite another foreign big-shot to the White House and hug and ] em and give them ], it has a direct effect on "We the People"'s lives!

Sunny Davis: He owes me a massage.

Sunny Davis: You mean you wanna tell me what you think I should say, right?

Sunny Davis: You mean officially he's here unofficially.

Sunny Davis: [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence; [truths; [equal; i; [Rights; [Life; [Liberty; [Happiness; [Governments; [just; [powers; [consent; [proud] And this is the ].  Can you read that?  "We hold these ] to be self-evident, that all men are created ], that they are endowed by their Creator with certain nalienable ], that among these are ], ] and the pursuit of ].—That to secure these rights, ] are instituted among Men, deriving their ] ] from the ] of the governed."  We're real ] of that.

Sunny Davis: [[Constitution of the United States|Constitution; [fun] Now, you know, I never read the—the ].  This'll be ] for all of us, won't it?

Sunny Davis: Oh, don't jump on the nice Mr. Vice President.

Sunny Davis: [[the United States of America|America; [George Washington University Hospital|this] I'd like to tell everybody in ] that ] is absolutely the best place to come if you're ever shot in the ass.

Sunny Davis: [[speaking] I'm not yelling, I'm just ] distinctly!

Sunny Davis: [[chicken] No, dear, I'm not a ]; I'm an emu.

Sunny Davis: [[car] Look, the ] is temporarily out of order and it'll be ready in a minute, I swear.