The Butler

"I don't know what country i'm looking at."

Louis Gaines: "Charlie, don't do this. Don't do this. This country treats us like dogs!"
Charlie Gaines: "And do what? Don't do this? You fight your country. I want to fight for my country."

"You must look through your eyes, see what it is that they want, see what it is that they need, anticipate, bring a smile to the principal's eyes."

"The only thing I ever knew was cotton. It was hard work."

"They say this new boy is smooth."
[about John Kennedy]

"I don't want to say anything negative about that Kennedy boy. I'm sure he's a real nice fellow. But do you really want that spoiled rich son-of-a-bitch fuck to be your next president?"

"Stop calling him a nigger cause he ain't no nigger."

"Negroes? Since when did he start calling us negroes? That nigger uses the word nigger more than I use it."