PGPresident Garrett Walker
Are you letting pride cloud your judgment, Frank?
Respectfully, sir, you're allowing fear to cloud yours.
“Unfinished Business” · Season 1, Episode 15
In this episode: Dean Winchester (940), Damon Salvatore (715), Sam Winchester (665), Olivia Benson (637), Stephen Fry (608), Narrator (554), Clark Kent (523), Nate (486)
You know what Francis said to me when he proposed? I remember his exact words. He said, 'Claire, if all you want is happiness, say no. I'm not gonna give you a couple of kids and count the days until retirement. I promise you freedom from that. I promise you'll never be bored.' You know, he was the only man - and there were a lot of others who proposed - but he was the only one who understood me. He didn't put me on some pedestal. He knew that I didn't want to be adored or coddled. So he took my hand and put a ring on it. Because he knew I'd say yes.
You know the difference between you and me, Marty?
What?
I'm a white-trash cracker from a white-trash town that no one would even bother to piss on. But here's the difference — I've made something of myself. I have the keys to the capitol. People respect me. But you, you're still nothing. You're just an uppity dago in an expensive suit turning tricks for the unions. Nobody respects the unions anymore, Marty. They're dying. And no one respects you. The most you'll ever make of yourself is blowing men like me. Men with real power. Yes. I can smell the cock on your breath from here.
You think you can get under my skin?
I know I can.
[looking out the window] I can see your security guy.
Meechum?
He's cute.
He'd never go for you.
Why not?
You're too intimidating.
But he's the one with the gun.
But you're the one with the Congressman.
WDWalter Doyle
I've been doing this a long time, Congressman. I know when I've scraped all the shit off the shoe.
Do you get off on this or something?
WDWalter Doyle
Does a doctor enjoy it when he cups your balls and asks you to cough?
There's no better way to overpower a trickle of doubt than with a flood of naked truth.
But the most important count I do has nothing to do with work. It's the number of days since April 4, 1999. As of this morning, that's 5,185. The bigger that number gets, the more it frightens me, because I know all it takes is one drink to go back to zero. Most people see fear as a weakness. It can be. Sometimes for my job, I have to put fear in other people. I know that's not right. But if I'm honest, like the fourth step asks us to be, I have to be ruthless, because failure is not an option. The same goes for my sobriety. I have to be ruthless with myself. I have to use my fear. It makes me stronger. Like everyone in this room, I can't control who I am. But I can control the zero. Fuck the zero.
Aren't you going to wish me a happy Father's Day?
You don't have any children.
Don't I?
The Sentinel, South Carolina's premier military college. They taught me the values of honor, duty, and respect. They also hazed me, tried to break me, and, senior year, nearly expelled me when I volunteered for a Senate race and my studies suffered. But that didn't stop them from soliciting a hefty sum for their new library 30 years later. How quickly poor grades are forgotten in the shadow of power and wealth.
RMrs. Russo
[to Christina] So, you're fuckin' my son? [Christina says nothing] Relax. I'm just messin' with you.
You elected me to represent you, but I couldn't forestall the inevitable. The shipyard was gonna close. If not this year, then next year, or the year after that. You all know that. Here's another truth that's gonna be hard to swallow: I'm all you've got.
The library is a sham. Higgins asked me a favor. I asked someone else a favor. They slapped my name on it. Politics. Like everything else.
The more of my words, the fewer of yours, the better off we'll both be.
RReporter
If I didn't think you were such a liability to yourself, Congressman, I might even like you.
If your circulation was as high as the Wall Street Journal, I might like you back.
JSJanine Skorsky
[to Zoe] So, a piece of advice as far as career strategies go: It's not worth fucking your way to the middle.
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