Pres. Lindberg (Tony “Tiny” Lister), from The Fifth Element
President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho (Terry Crews), from Idiocracy
President Devlin (George Clooney), from Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
President James Dale (Jack Nicholson), from Mars Attacks!
President Joseph Staton (Dennis Quaid), from American Dreamz
President James Marshall (Harrison Ford), from Air Force One
President Thomas “Tug” Benson (Lloyd Bridges), from Hot Shots! (Part Deux)
President Mays Gilliam (Chris Rock), from Head of State
President Max Frost (Christopher Jones), from Wild in the Streets
Bill Pullman, Independence Day (Pres. Thomas Whitmore)
Morgan Freeman, Deep Impact;Pres. Tom Beck
Michael Douglas, The American President, Andrew Shepard
With the recent attention on the debates in the real world, here's one of my favorite gems from the show:
Governor Robert Ritchie, R-FL: My view of this is simple: we don't need a Federal Department of Education telling us our children have to learn Esperanto, they have to learn Eskimo poetry. Let the states decide, let the communities decide on health care, on education, on lower taxes, not higher taxes. Now, he's going to throw a big word at you - "unfunded mandate." He's going to say if Washington lets the states do it, it's an unfunded mandate. But what he doesn't like is the federal government losing power. But I call it the ingenuity of the American people.
Moderator: President Bartlet, you have 60 seconds for a question and an answer.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet: Well, first of all, let's clear up a couple of things. "Unfunded mandate" is two words, not one big word. There are times when we're fifty states and there are times when we're one country, and have national needs. And the way I know this is that Florida didn't fight Germany in World War II or establish civil rights. You think states should do the governing wall-to-wall. That's a perfectly valid opinion. But your state of Florida got $12.6 billion in federal money last year - from Nebraskans, and Virginians, and New Yorkers, and Alaskans, with their Eskimo poetry. 12.6 out of a state budget of $50 billion. I'm supposed to be using this time for a question, so here it is: Can we have it back, please?