Eric Foreman quotes from House

Foreman

What's House up to? He hasn't asked me for anything. He's been incredibly well behaved. He's doing his clinic hours.

Wilson

That is a sign of concern.

Foreman

Which means it's too late for me to back down. It's no longer my choice. It's just me - telling me he can get away with anything... I have to send him to prison.

Wilson

Your job is to keep this machine running. It's your choice to make House a useful tool or a monkey wrench. Cuddy's way didn't fail because she didn't try to control House, she managed him. She knew better than anybody what a tool he could be.

Foreman

14 year old girl - intermittent attacks.

House

4 year old boy - consistently at death's door.

This patient died 5 years ago.

House

I didn't say which side of the door he was on.

Foreman

House… is brilliant. I give him the benefit of the doubt most of the time because I've seen what he can do.

Getting House out of prison is the biggest decision you've made as Dean of Medicine, right? And if he's suspended as a result of this hearing, he violates his parole and he goes back. And that probably leaves you as former Dean of Medicine.

Foreman

I suppose so.

You didn't choose me to oversee this because you thought I could be objective. You chose me because you thought I'd have your back and I'd think twice about making a decision that would get you fired. Eric. I'm sorry. But if your get-House-out-of-jail-free experiment blows up in your face, it's not my job to get you out of it.

Chase

We did everything House would've done if he'd been here.

Foreman

You lied to a patient.

Wilson

He's not my child. I cannot be responsible for the happiness of Gregory House.

Foreman

You are responsible. The past 20 years, you've had three wives, hundreds of colleagues, thousands of patients. But you've kept that one best friend.