Well, what do you expect me to do? An honorary stooge like me against the Taylors and...
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Jefferson Smith:
Well, what do you expect me to do? An honorary stooge like me against the Taylors and Paines and machines and lies?
Clarissa Saunders:
Your friend, Mr. Lincoln had his Taylors and Paines. So did every other man who ever tried to lift his thought up off the ground. Odds against them didn't stop those men. They were fools that way. All the good that ever came into this world came from fools with faith like that. You know that, Jeff. You can't quit now. Not you. They aren't all Taylors and Paines in Washington. That kind just throw big shadows, that's all. You didn't just have faith in Paine or any other living man. You had faith in something bigger than that. You had plain, decent, everyday, common rightness, and this country could use some of that. Yeah, so could the whole cockeyed world, a lot of it. Remember the first day you got here? Remember what you said about Mr. Lincoln? You said he was sitting up there, waiting for someone to come along. You were right. He was waiting for a man who could see his job and sail into it, that's what he was waiting for. A man who could tear into the Taylors and root them out into the open. I think he was waiting for you, Jeff. He knows you can do it, so do I.
Jefferson Smith:
What? Do what, Saunders?
Clarissa Saunders:
You just make up your mind you're not gonna quit, and I'll tell you what. I've been thinking about it all the way back here. It's a forty foot dive into a tub of water, but I think you can do it.
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Remember what you said about Mr Lincoln
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That he was waiting for someone to come along
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You were right
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He was waiting for a man who could see his job and sail into it
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Who could tear into the Taylors and root them out into the open
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I think he was waiting for you
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He knows you can do it So do I
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What Do what Saunders
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You make up your mind you won't quit and I'll tell you what
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Been thinking about it all the way back here
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It's a 40 foot dive into a tub of water but I think you can do it
Clip duration: 35 seconds
Views: 383
Timestamp in movie: 01h 33m 35s
Uploaded: 20 November, 2022
Genres: comedy, drama
Summary: A naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his c...
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00:25 Willet Dam is a fraud
00:14 Or I'm crazy
01:02 Senator Smith
01:10 I wish to ask my distinguished colleague
00:27 In protest
00:19 Thank you
00:18 He'll never get started
00:36 Here we go
00:09 And declare a holiday
00:46 When Foley died
00:17 The Constitution of the United States
00:10 I can promise you one thing
00:29 What do you think
00:07 I'm still asking myself
00:17 When I came here
00:17 Daniel Webster used to use it
01:02 You're bill is ready
00:33 My Dad had the right idea
00:10 Everybody just calls you plain Saunders
00:44 What did you get me outta bed for