“You make me think that fruit salad on your chest is for neutrality...” – Senator Frederick Prentice, Seven Days in May ... Movie Quotes Database

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A scene from Seven Days in May 1964

Senator Frederick Prentice

You make me think that fruit salad on your chest is for neutrality, evasiveness, and fence-straddling.

Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey

On the contrary, Senator, they're standard awards for cocktail courage and dinner-table heroism. I thought you'd invented them.

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Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey Kirk Douglas More Colonel Martin "Jiggs" Casey quotes →

Senator Frederick Prentice Whit Bissell

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President Jordan Lyman Trimmer is a very political dog. He doesn't have many principles, but he's loyal to his friends. Senator Raymond Clark All you've got to know is this: right now the government of the United States is sitting on top of the Washington Monument, right on the very point, tilting right and left and ready to fall off and break up on the pavement. There are just a handful of men that can prevent it. And you're one of them. Senator Raymond Clark You stay put right here... I'm going to phone the White House. Tell you what, friend: when this is over you can take off your girdle and have yourself a real good cry. Say, uh, you got a dime to stop a revolution with?