The Powers That Be (TV Series)

Oh, Mack (1992)

John Forsythe: Sen. William Franklin Powers

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• Sen. William Franklin Powers : Didn't you have a fundraiser out in Hollywood last year, Theodore?

  Theodore Van Horne : Oh, mmm, yeah, it was a big one. We had wine *and* cheese.

• Bradley Grist : Ah, Senator. How's the debate going on the floor?

  Sen. William Franklin Powers : Well, we're still quibbling over the money we spend on Congressional fact-finding junkets. I suggested that we continue to fly first class, and give our frequent-flier miles to the homeless.

  Bradley Grist : [deadpan sarcasm]  Good idea, Sir. It's a nice gesture, and flying them around like that would keep them off the streets.

• Sen. William Franklin Powers : Where's Theodore?

  Caitlyn Van Horne : He's at home. I'm cranky with him. I raised fifty-two hundred dollars for the Halfway House for the Wives of Congress - a house, incidentally, that I'm not ever going to get to use - and it goes completely unnoticed by my own husband. No hug. No display of pride in my accomplishment. If I may quote from a little poem I wrote once: "The gentle doe / self-sufficient enough / to strip the bark from the sapling / not an easy task / still needs to be nuzzled by her buck / if she is to remain / a proud and happy beast / of the forest."

  Mack Novitz : [he seems overcome with emotion, obviously faking it]  Oh - I'm sorry, I didn't see that coming.