The Second Civil War (1997 TV Movie)

Beau Bridges: Gov. Jim Farley

Quotes 

• 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.

• 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.

• Governor of Idaho : Politics is just another form of sex.

• 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!

• 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.