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Pullman was on Saturday Night Live after the movie came out and one of the skits was Bob Dole (Norm MacDonald) dreaming that he was debating Pullman's character from the movie in a presidential debate.
Pullman is proud to have united America and defeated the alien invasion while Dole keeps trying to blame him for the state of the nation after the invasion.
Here are the only quotes I could find
President Thomas J. Whitmore: My fellow Americans, when I look back on my first term as President, there are many things that stand out. The passage of the new clean water act, the historic tax cut... but, I would have to say that my proudest moment was when I led the charge to repel the invasion of the space monsters. ...
Bob Dole: Under his administration, over seventy million Americans were incinerated by aliens from outer space!
President Thomas J. Whitmore: Well, at seems as though the Senator has finally decided to go negative. I guess he hopes to distract voters from the real issues, the ones that matter to the average American.
Bob Dole: The average American's dead!
Savage, and true, in the case of that film.
But Jeff Goldblum is still alive, so you've got that going for you, in that universe.