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Politics & Power Quote by Ben Affleck

"Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President"

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Affleck’s joke lands because it treats the highest civic office like the ultimate celebrity flex, then dares you to notice how plausible that sounds in modern America. The opening, “Yes, I’m going to be the President,” is delivered with mock inevitability, like a career pivot no more outrageous than jumping from indie darling to superhero franchise. The punchline isn’t just the crude “get chicks” bravado; it’s the sly downgrade of politics into status economics. Movies are good for fame, he implies, but the presidency is fame with institutional power and mythic validation built in.

The intent is comic one-upmanship, but the subtext is sharper: our culture already uses the presidency as a proxy for desirability, dominance, and legitimacy. It’s not that Affleck sincerely wants the job; it’s that he’s pointing at the way the job is marketed and consumed. “Chicks” makes the joke deliberately tacky, a tell that he’s parodying a certain male fantasy of success where women are the scoreboard. That tackiness is the critique, too: when public office becomes another rung in the ladder of masculine achievement, policy becomes secondary to aura.

Context matters because Affleck is speaking as an actor inside a fame machine that routinely blurs the line between performance and leadership. The bit anticipates (and helps explain) a political era where charisma and camera-ready confidence can feel like qualifications, and where the presidency, absurdly, can read like the most prestigious role in show business.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Affleck, Ben. (2026, January 16). Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/yes-im-going-to-be-the-president-of-the-united-138959/

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Affleck, Ben. "Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/yes-im-going-to-be-the-president-of-the-united-138959/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/yes-im-going-to-be-the-president-of-the-united-138959/. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.

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