A character in Protocol (1984)

Sunny Davis quotes from Protocol (1984)

Goldie Hawn

Most-quoted character in Protocol (1984): in 19 of its 22 quotes

A line from Sunny Davis

I'd like to tell everybody in America that this is absolutely the best place to come if you're ever shot in the ass.

More lines from Sunny Davis

11 quotes
Sunny Davis

Look, the car is temporarily out of order and it'll be ready in a minute, I swear.

Sunny Davis

No, dear, I'm not a chicken; I'm an emu.

Sunny Davis

I'm not yelling, I'm just speaking distinctly!

Sunny Davis

Oh, don't jump on the nice Mr. Vice President.

Sunny Davis

Now, you know, I never read the—the Constitution.  This'll be fun for all of us, won't it?

Sunny Davis

And this is the Declaration of Independence.  Can you read that?  "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain [i]nalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."  We're real proud of that.

Sunny Davis

You mean officially he's here unofficially.

Sunny Davis

You mean you wanna tell me what you think I should say, right?

Sunny Davis

You wanna know something?  That before I started to work for the government, I'd never read the Constitution?  I didn't even begin to know how things worked—I didn't.  I didn't read the newspaper, except to look at my horoscope, and I never read the Declaration of Independence; but I know they had—the ones we're talking about, the "experts"—they all read it.  They just forgot what it's about—that it's about "We the People."  And that's me; I'm "We the People", and you're "We the People", and all of us, we're all "We the People", right?  So when they sell me that ten-cent diamond, or down the river, or-or to some guy who wears a lot of medals, that means they're selling all of us, all of "We the People."  And when they—I mean, when you guys—when you spend another pile of money, and when you give away or sell all those guns and tanks and planes, and every time you invite another foreign big-shot to the White House and hug and kiss 'em and give them presents, it has a direct effect on "We the People"'s lives!

Scenes with Sunny Davis

7 scenes
Lou Fox

  Nice, Sunny, very nice.  Thank you very much for showing up.

Sunny Davis

  Oh, geeze, am I late?

Lou

  How come you were running like that if you didn't know you were late?

Sunny

  Exercise!

Sunny

  Well, you sure don't look like one.

Michael Ransome

  Like one what?

Sunny

  A middle-aged desk clerk.

Ransome

  No, no; that's Middle East desk chief.

reporter

  Did you vote for the president?

Sunny

  Well, actually, I never voted.

reporters

  Never?

Sunny

  Right, never.

reporter

  Well, do you consider yourself to be a Republican or a Democrat?

Sunny

  Look, I consider myself to be just an American.

Vice President Merck

  Sunny, what are your plans?

Sunny

  I don't have any.  I mean, well, I have a job at the Safari Club and Lou—well, he's my boss and he's really a nice guy and everything, but business hasn't been so hot and I was kind of hoping for an advancement, you know, but the problem is that Lou's aunt works the cash register and his sister's the hostess so I'm just gonna have to wait around until one of 'em quits or drops dead.  I guess you know what that's like.

Vice President Merck

  [nods]  Mm hmm.

Ransome

  You always say what you think.

Sunny

  It's no big deal.  I just never understood why people—some people—don't say what they think.  Don't you say what you think?

Ransome

  Not always, no.

Sunny

  Too bad.You know what I read the other day?  The Declaration of Independence—I mean the real one, you know, the original, the one in the archives?  Boy, those guys knew how to say what they thought.

Mrs. St. John

  Sunny, dear, are you coming?

Sunny

  Not quite, ma'am.

The Emir

  Why are you dressed like that!?

Sunny

  Because I'm an American!

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