- 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.
- Caitlyn Van Horne: I think I've discovered a connection between male sexual insecurity and an obsession with shopping at L.L. Bean.
- Margaret Powers: You know, the Senator's always terribly disappointed if I'm not home when he gets back from some grueling political junket to the Holy Land, or some other godforsaken place.