Louis Gossett Jr. credited as playing...
Jake Phillips
- Rick Latimer: I'll be here tomorrow.
- Jake Phillips: I'll be here too.
- Rick Latimer: We are very stupid men.
- Jake Phillips: Yeah, I know. But what can you do?
- Jake Phillips: ["Screwdriver" Phillips barges into the office of a napping "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" Latimer] You're ever-vigilant, I see.
- Rick Latimer: Where I come from, we knock.
- Jake Phillips: Where *I* come from, we pick locks. With your permission, I'll replace your old rusty one with a new deadbolt. The kind only .357 Magnums can open up.
- Rick Latimer: Thanks, Jake. That's real encouraging. I feel much better now.
- Jake Phillips: Do you mind if I ask you a question I ask all imported principals?
- [without waiting for an answer]
- Jake Phillips: What is a fine, white-bread boy like you doing in a place like this?
- Rick Latimer: Keeping my warm ass planted in this chair.
- Jake Phillips: [indicates the "Classified Ads" which Latimer has been going through] 'Til something better comes along, right? I don't know why I thought it should've been any different.
- Rick Latimer: [awaiting Victor Duncan] We'll give him another minute. And then we'll go home.
- Jake Phillips: [after only a few seconds] Okay, time's up.
- Rick Latimer: [dealing with a couple of troublemakers in his new office, both of whom keep insulting - and trying to injure - each other in front of him] Like I said, we got all day.
- Robert Darcy: [enters nervously] I was hoping to speak to you before this...
- Rick Latimer: This wonderful welcoming party? Why don't we start my first day off with some expulsion papers for Mr. Shit and Mr. Fuck here? And call the police.
- [to Jake Phillips who has just popped in]
- Rick Latimer: Hi. Rick Latimer. I'm the new principal.
- Jake Phillips: No kidding.
- [moves on]
- Robert Darcy: [to Latimer] Did you get a look at the neighborhood coming into this place? Brandel High isn't exactly the highest priority for the police around here.
- Rick Latimer: These guys are trying to cut each other's nuts off!
- Robert Darcy: The cops would only ask why you stopped them! As far as expulsion goes, most of the students here have already been expelled from someplace else!