The Manchurian Candidate

Once unbelievable. Now unthinkable.

"There are two kinds of people in this world: Those that enter a room and turn the television set on, and those that enter a room and turn the television set off."

    --  Raymond Shaw
 

"Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life."

    --  Marco
 

"Intelligence officer. Stupidity officer is more like it. Pentagon wants to open a Stupidity Division, they know who they can get to lead it."

    --  Marco
 

"I'm sure you've all heard the old wives' tale that no hypnotized subject may be forced to do that which is repellent to his moral nature, whatever that may be. Nonsense of course."

    --  Dr. Yen Lo
 

"His brain has not only been washed, as they say... It has been dry cleaned."

    --  Dr. Yen Lo
 

"It's a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn't always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her."

    --  Raymond Shaw
 

"Why don't you pass the time with a game of solitaire?"

    --  Mrs. Iselin
 

"52 red queens and me are telling you... you know what we're telling you? It's over! The links, the beautifully conditioned links are smashed. They're smashed as of now because we say so, because we say they are to be smashed. We're busting up the joint, we're tearing out all the wires. We're busting it up so good all the queen's horses and all the queen's men will never put old Raymond back together again. You don't work any more! That's an order. Anybody invites you to a game of solitaire, you tell 'em sorry, buster, the ball game is over."

    --  Marco
 

"You couldn't have stopped them, the army couldn't have stopped them. So I had to."

    --  Raymond Shaw