Harry's War (1981)

David Ogden Stiers: Ernie

Quotes 

• Ernie : Look Johnson, people who ram their heads against a wall eventually die. Privilege of freedom I guess.

• Ernie : You're a fool, Johnson. I'm the United States Treasury, what are you?

  Harry Johnson : I'm...

  [grabs a battered old rocket grenade] 

  Ernie : You can't beat the United States government, Johnson. Not in a million years. The taxes will be paid. We'll get it one way - we get it another. But we will get it.

• [last lines] 

  Ernie : [being arrested]  I'm the federal government, God damn it, take your hands off me!