The Loudest Voice (TV Mini Series)

2001 (2019)

Allan Greenberg: Karl Rove

Quotes 

• Roger Ailes : Good morning, Karl.

  Karl Rove : Hello, Roger. You watching the speech?

  Roger Ailes : I am, actually. Optics look great.

  Karl Rove : I spoke with the president. We'd like your help moving forward.

  Roger Ailes : Whatever you need, Karl.

  Karl Rove : Now, this event is a national tragedy. But it is an opportunity to achieve a strategic objective.

  Roger Ailes : Iraq?

  Karl Rove : Yes.

  Roger Ailes : You want to go back?

  Karl Rove : The president feels there's unfinished business.

  Roger Ailes : I agree.

  Karl Rove : Now, we'd have to message this correctly.

  Roger Ailes : It's a new kind of war.

  Karl Rove : It will be an international mission.

  Roger Ailes : A worldwide hunt to destroy terrorism.

  Karl Rove : Exactly.

  Roger Ailes : You know, Rove, my take on this... if the president steps up, if the president takes the harshest possible measures... the country will back him. Fox News will back him.

  Karl Rove : Can you put some thoughts down on paper for the president? I think your messaging would help move things forward.

  Roger Ailes : Absolutely, Karl. Be my pleasure.

  Karl Rove : Thank you, Roger. Have a good day.

• Roger Ailes : What are you trying to get me to believe, Karl? That you didn't suck up to this sycophantic scumbag and leak my memo?

  Karl Rove : Roger. I do not know how Woodward got that information.

  Roger Ailes : Oh, you don't? I do. He got it from you! I wrote that memo to you. Only you and 43. Now it's in fucking black and white in Woodward's book.

  Karl Rove : Hey, I understand you're upset, Roger, but there's nothing I can do about it.

  Roger Ailes : You can climb out of your shit-stained pajamas and put out a goddamn press release saying Woodward is lying! That's what you can fucking do, Karl!

  Karl Rove : I can't get involved, Roger.

  Roger Ailes : I'm a newsman. This is making me look like I'm playing both sides against the middle.

  Karl Rove : You *are* playing both sides.

  Roger Ailes : You fuck me on this, Karl, I will fuck you right back, and I promise you, you will not enjoy it.