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America was in great shape, except for the President William Howard Taft. Was he a porker. At 310 pounds, he weighed as much as Teddy Roosevelt and half of William McKinley.

13 seconds sound clip from the Johnny Dangerously movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:05:08 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- You know, I started out just like you, kid. It must have been 25 years ago.

- What's going on?

- Don't worry. It'll end in a couple of minutes. It always does this when I talk about the past.

- Anyway, it was 1910.

- Times were good in America. There was plenty of everything: Jobs, security, laughs.

- America was in great shape, except for the President William Howard Taft. Was he a porker. At 310 pounds, he weighed as much as Teddy Roosevelt and half of William McKinley.

- Immigrants poured into the country from all over the world, looking for a better life for their children.

- And over 97 percent of them settled in a two-block area of New York City.

- There used to be a law called The McCoy Act of 1909 that said that immigrants who wanted citizenship had to stay out of their apartments at least 4 hours a day and walk around the streets with hats on.

- Most of the immigrants didn't find the streets paved with gold. Instead, they found hard times.

- And nobody had it tougher than my mom, Mom Kelly.

[...]

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Actors: Michael Keaton (Johnny Dangerously), Joe Piscopo (Danny Vermin), Marilu Henner (Lil Sheridan), Maureen Stapleton (Ma Kelly), Peter Boyle (Jocko Dundee), Danny DeVito (D.A. Burr)

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