Memorable Quotes from Michael Lerner
4 quotesChampions and the Allure of Money
Abe Attell
They say that six or seven guys. I find that hard to believe.
Arnold Rothstein
Doesn't surprise me.
Abe Attell
Yeah, but they're the champs.
Arnold Rothstein
You were champ, Abe, you went down for the bucks.
Abe Attell
This is different.
Arnold Rothstein
Look, champ. I know guys like that. I grew up with them. I was the fat kid they wouldn't let play. "Sit down, fat boy'. That's what they'd say, "Sit down, maybe you'll learn something." Well, I learned something alright. Pretty soon, I owned the game, and those guys I grew up with come to me with their hats in their hands. Tell me, champ, all those years of puggin', how much money did you make?
Abe Attell
The honest fights or the ones I tanked?
Arnold Rothstein
Altogether, I must've made ten times that amount betting on you and I never took a punch.
Abe Attell
Yeah, but I was champ. Featherweight champeen of the world!
Arnold Rothstein
Yesterday. That was yesterday.
Abe Attell
No A.R. you're wrong. I was champ, and can't nothin take that away.
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Debate on Mutant Defense and National Security
Senator Brickman
We are reviewing our defense expenditures, and all the black books are being opened. We can't support a weapon that targets our own citizens. If these Mutants as you describe are already living among us, then they are living here peacefully.
Senator Parker
We haven't had an incident in over ten years.
Senator Davis
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[[w:X-Men: First Class|After what happened in Cuba!]
Parker
It was never confirmed. We have very real enemies out there. The Russians, the Chinese.
[Addressing Trask]
Brickman
We are talking about a tenth of a tenth of a tenth of our population.
Dr. Bolivar Trask
Allow me to read something to you.
Brickman
Please.
Trask
This was acquired from our friends in the CIA. It's a dissertation written by a mutant at Oxford University and I quote: "To Homo Neanderthalensis, his mutant cousin: Homo Sapiens," which is us, "was an aberration. The arrival of the mutated human species, Homo Sapiens, was followed by the immediate extinction of their less evolved kin." Well, now we are the Neanderthal.
[Opening a folder; Closes the folder]
Brickman
Speak for yourself, Dr. Trask.
[Members of Congress laugh quietly]
Trask
You know, when you sent our soldiers to Vietnam without the weapons they needed to win the war, you underestimated your enemy. You do that with this enemy and it won't be some border skirmish halfway around the world. This time, the war will be for our streets, our cities, our homes. By the time you see the need for my program, it'll be too late and you'll have lost two wars in one lifetime.
Brickman
We're sorry Dr. Trask, but your Sentinel Program... it ain't gonna fly!
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A Playful Exchange Between Jack and Weasel
Jack
Didja miss me, Weasel? Huh, didja? Didja miss me?
Weasel
I've told ya a million times...it's Wisel, and that's Mr. Wisel to you. How many?
Jack
Don't rush me, I'm perusin the merchandise, Mr. Weasel.
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Mayor Ebert's Frustration with the Public
Mayor Ebert
What the hell's the matter with you people? You caused more damage than that goddamn thing did!
[After the first fight between Godzilla and the military]
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