Where the Spirit Lives (1989)

Ron White: Taggert

Quotes 

• Taggert : Poona! Her name is Poona, not Rachel. Call her by her real name for God's sake. Poona! You tell me Reverend, what is it that makes a young girl run across the prarie for three days with no food or water trying to get away from this place? Sure as hell isn't God's work. Whatever it is I've had enough of it!

  [angered by her death walks away] 

• Taggert : The power invested in me as Indian Agent for the government of the dominion of Canada, in accordance with regulation 31 of the Indian Act of 1925, in cooperation with the Anglican and Roman Catholic...

  [mom spits in his face] 

  Taggert : Now, come on. You people were warned. You're supposed to bring your kids down to the schools.

  [Taggart speaks in Kainawa] 

  Taggert : It's 1937, you can't stay ignorant savages forever.

• Kathleen : You must find it very satisfying to be helping these poor children get a good education. Learn to read and write and have a wider understanding of the world?

  Taggert : Did they tell you anything about this school or about teaching the Indians?

  Kathleen : Yes, of course. It's a fine Christian institution doing God's work and the children - well, children are the same anywhere. They need love, patience and careful guidance... And just why are you grinning at me like a great ape?

  Taggert : Well, ma'am, it's just been a long while since I heard horse dung piled so pretty.

  Kathleen : Well thanks be to God that a cynical man like yourself is not teaching these poor children!

  Taggert : Thanks be to God. I wouldn't have the stomach for it.