"Don't make me laugh. We're one people. It's a myth created by Thomas Jefferson."
"My friend, Jefferson's an American saint because he wrote the words "All men are created equal." Words he clearly didn't believe, since he allowed his own children to live in slavery. He was a rich wine snob who was sick of paying taxes to the Brits. So yeah, he wrote some lovely words and aroused the rabble, and they went out and died for those words, while he sat back and drank his wine and fucked his slave girl. This guy wants to tell me we're living in a community. Don't make me laugh. I'm living in America, and in America, you're on your own. America's not a country. It's just a business."
Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt) in Killing Them Softly.
Cogan is in a bar talking to another guy. There's a tv over their heads. President Obama is on the tube delivering his election victory speech. Cogan is reacting to that. Cogan is a hired killer.
I'm particularly fond of the lines: "America's not a country. It's just a business."
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