45 Quotes by Powers Boothe

If I rob a gas station, I'm going to get 15 years. If I steal $400 million on Wall Street, I start plea-bargaining.

I was raised a proper Southern boy.

I've always wanted to play a hard-boiled gumshoe, as they say.

I've had presidents in my lifetime - and I'm old enough to have seen several - that I really detested, but they're still my president. I've had presidents that I've really liked.

The office of the presidency is what's important, no matter who's in it.

We all want to pretend that there isn't evil in the world. We all want to pretend that there aren't people trying to take us out and different things like that.

I've got a family, and I love them, and I want them to have the best opportunities in the best country in the world, and I think we have to fight for it.

Everyone has this vision of Jones as a maniacal ogre. Wrong. He was charming, sweet, and a fabulous speaker.

I'm not going to make my living out of beating my head against somebody else.