First Family (1980)

Bob Dishy: Vice-President William Shockley

Quotes 

• Vice-President William Shockley : Well, sir, do you want to know what I think?

  President Manfred Link : Does anyone want to know what a Vice President thinks?

• Vice-President William Shockley : I can see a Nobel prize in your future.

  Press Secretary Bunthorne : Mr. President. Mr. President, sir, I can predict an overwhelming majority to the polls.

  Ambassador Spender : Manny, we've already opened negotiations with the upper Ghormese for an exclusive trade agreement.

  President Manfred Link : I want a lot more vacations.

  Vice-President William Shockley , Press Secretary Bunthorne , Ambassador Spender : Yes!

  Vice-President William Shockley : Naturally, sir!

• President Manfred Link : Wait a minute. They think I'm dead.

  Vice-President William Shockley : Yes! Yes. Yes! This will be the greatest sales pitch in the history of American political campaigns! Once, every 2,000 years or so, a man of vision, a man who can work miracles, returns to lead his people.

  President Manfred Link : You don't really think that - that anyone would believe that?