All in the Family (TV Series)

The Draft Dodger (1976)

Carroll O'Connor: Archie Bunker

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Quotes 

• Michael 'Meathead' Stivic : Look, Arch, what David did took a lot of guts!

  Archie Bunker : What do you mean, a lot of guts?

  David Brewster : My own father couldn't understand, why should he?

  Michael 'Meathead' Stivic : When the hell are you going to admit that the war was wrong?

  Archie Bunker : I ain't talkin' about that war!Goddammit I don't want to talk about that Goddamn war no more! I'm talkin' about somethin' else! And what he done was wrong! Sayin' he won't go! Whaddya think, the old people of this country can say whether or not they wanna go to war? You couldn't get a decent war off the ground that way! All the young people would say no - sure they would! Cause they don't wanna get killed! And that's why we leave it to the Congress, cause them old quacks ain't gonna get killed! And they're gonna do the right thing, and get behind the president and vote yes!

  Pinky Peterson : Arch, if my opinion is of any importance...

  Archie Bunker : Certainly your opinion is important! Gold Star Father. Your opinion is more important than anyone else in this room. And I wanna hear that opinion - I want these young people here to hear that opinion! Now you tell 'em, Pinky, you tell 'em.

  Pinky Peterson : I understand how you feel, Arch. My kid hated the war, too. But he did what he thought he had to do. And David here did what he thought he had to do. But David's alive to share Christmas dinner with us. And if Steve were here he would want to sit down with him. And that's what I want to do.

  [offering his hand to David] 

  Pinky Peterson : Merry Christmas, David.

  David Brewster : Merry Christmas, sir.

• Archie Bunker : Starched shirt, I feel like I'm inside of a tin can. Chinks must've invented starch as a torture for the white people.

• Archie Bunker : The Bible ain't in Spanish. The world was started by Adam and Eve, not Desi and Charo.

• Archie Bunker : What the hell you got in Canada you ain't got here?

• Edith Bunker : There's a drumstick for ya.

  Archie Bunker : Oh Edith, I... I ain't thinkin' about eatin', Jeez.

  Michael 'Meathead' Stivic : I'll take it, Ma.

  Archie Bunker : Leave it on the plate.