The Emperor's Club (2002)

Harris Yulin: Senator Bell

Quotes 

• William Hundert : Sir, it's my job to mold your son's character, and I think if...

  Senator Bell : Mold him? Jesus God in Heaven, son. You're not gonna mold my boy. Your job is to teach my son. You teach him his times tables. Teach him why the world is round. Teach him who killed who and when and where. That is your job. You, sir, will not mold my son. I will mold him.

• Senator Bell : Let me ask you something. What's the good of what you're teachin' those boys?

  William Hundert : "The good"?

  Senator Bell : Yes. The good.

  William Hundert : Well, Senator, the Greeks and the Romans provided the model of democracy, which, I don't need to tell you, the framers of our own Constitution used as their inspiration. But more to the point, I think when the boys read Plato and Aristotle, Cicero, Julius Caesar even, they're put in direct contact with men who, in their own age, exemplified the highest standards of statesmanship, of civic virtue, of character conviction.

  Senator Bell : [Chuckles]  Boy, that is a horse that can talk! So you're saying that my son Sedgwick has his head up his ass.

• Senator Bell : Let me ask you something, do you know what is causing me to send you to this place?

  Sedgewick Bell : What's wrong?

  Senator Bell : Shut up. My time is precious son. I thought I made that clear. I got better things to do than clean up after you, do you understand me?

  Sedgewick Bell : Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I understand.

  Senator Bell : Don't forget it.

  [pause and then he hangs up the phone] 

• Senator Bell : [to Hundert about the gun that was given]  You oughta be careful with that thing, by the way. You know, it still fires.