- Helen Binkowski: [Referring to picture on the wall] Is that man a friend of yours?
- Louis Laffer: Senator Smits? Why, yes. A good friend. You know him?
- Helen Binkowski: He felt me up... in a laundromat.
- Louis Laffer: Oh, well. No worries. He's in prison now.
- Senator Gil John Biggs: [Sharing with Hakeem his feelings about contradictory statements made by people from his hometown] You know, in some ways it was better back in the day when the bigotry was out in the open. At least things added up then. Now, folks are choking on their own hypocrisy and they don't even know it.