Rene Auberjonois credited as playing...
Mr. House
- Robert Edwin House: Nothing to impede progress. If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows.
- Robert Edwin House: I haven't shown my hand - I've shown one card. I've given my enemies a single, provocative datum upon which to fixate. They have no idea what other cards I'm holding. It's a strong hand, believe me - I dealt it to myself.
- Courier: Wasn't the NCR's army big enough to defeat your securitrons and the Three Families?
- Robert Edwin House: Indeed it was - and still is. But not without taking significant casualties. Would Kimball and Oliver have traded the lives of hundreds of soldiers for absolute control of Hoover Dam? Oh yes. They weren't afraid of me, they were afraid of Caesar - that attacking me would leave them vulnerable to a Legion offensive. And so they negotiated. Not out of the kindness of their hearts, as they try to make it seem. Because the calculus of power left no other choice.
- Robert Edwin House: Success depends on forethought, dispassionate calculation of probabilities, accounting for every stray variable.
- Robert Edwin House: Why in the world did you attack President Kimball?
- Courier: He tried to make me pay taxes.
- Robert Edwin House: Understandable.