In the case of capital offenses I am absolutely in favor of the death penalty. You hear...
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Dickie Pilager:
[conducting a press conference]
In the case of capital offenses I am absolutely in favor of the death penalty. You hear stories about frontier justice - you can bet that the wrongdoers, the folks who couldn't play by the rules, had some respect for that. And there was no -
[starts floundering]
Dickie Pilager:
it didn't cost the taxpayer - if they had had taxpayers back then... those were the good old days, I suppose -
[gathers steam again]
Dickie Pilager:
and all you needed was a good strong rope and a tree to hang it from!
Reporter #1:
So you'll be proposing tougher criminal legis...
Dickie Pilager:
My message to criminals is this: straighten up or get out. There's no place for you in our state. You do the crime, and by God, you're gonna have to face your lumps.
Nora Allardyce:
But the majority of those serving time for drug possession are...
Dickie Pilager:
You want to change the behavior? Stiffen the consequences!
Nora Allardyce:
There have been reports, Mr. Pilager, that before you became involved in politics you had considerable experience with...
Dickie Pilager:
Look, if you're up in a helicopter, airplane, something that flies, you don't want your pilot intoxicated with drugs, do you? And it's that way with our schoolchildren... Junior can't read if he's high on crack. Yeah, air is thin enough up here!
[points to another reporter]
Dickie Pilager:
Yes?
Transcript
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Stiffen the consequences
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There have been reports Mr Pilager
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that before you became involved in politics you had considerable experience
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Look if you're up in a helicopter airplane
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you know something that flies
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you don't want your pilot intoxicated with drugs do you
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It's that way with our schoolchildren
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Junior can't read if he's high on crack
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Yeah the air is thin enough up here Yes
Clip duration: 33 seconds
Views: 63
Timestamp in movie: 00h 30m 52s
Uploaded: 29 November, 2022
Genres: comedy, drama, mystery
Summary: The discovery of a corpse threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor of Colorado.
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00:11 Environmental Heritage Initiative
00:13 You know
00:41 People want to back a winner
00:12 Americans don't have the patience for underdogs like...
00:14 Throw a dead body into a cave
00:09 Man Richard Pilager cares about Colorado
00:13 Where the hell is he He's in with his uh spiritual...
00:14 Uh we weren't Maybe she wanted somebody more...
00:23 You know
00:32 Take a good look Dickie
00:16 A government strong enough brave enough
00:07 He seems a lot more gubernatorial with the sound off
00:10 Then I uh tried living in California for a while
00:14 We're trying to attract voters okay Not fish
00:10 What do you want me to do with this
00:13 Bupkes Yeah I don't really do politics anymore
00:08 I'm surprised you caught anything with this lure
00:18 I always pictured you in some smoky hole in the wall hunched...
00:13 There is not a corrupt bone in Dickie Pilager's body...
00:46 The present