:38:00
Not good enough?
:38:04
You think I don't know that?
:38:06
I hope so, John.
:38:07
Scares me when you call me John.
:38:09
Why's that?
:38:11
Because I...
:38:15
...I thought a minute ago
we were off to the White House.
:38:21
I thought I could feel you come aboard.
:38:23
The old menschkeit.
:38:28
Horseshit.
:38:30
Menschkeit is horseshit.
:38:33
It's 120 years of graft
and sweetheart contracts...
:38:36
...featherbeds and
inside information...
:38:38
...and everywhere people in power
gather to carve up the turf.
:38:42
That's your menschkeit.
:38:44
It's horseshit.
You know where you can put it.
:38:47
Maybe spread it over the fields.
:38:49
If we cross our fingers,
maybe a flower will grow.
:38:51
It has.
:38:54
Out of all this crap...
:38:57
...you emerged.
:39:00
- You're the only voter I care...
- I'm getting that "con" feeling.
:39:03
- Like you're copping a plea.
- No, come on. No plea.
:39:06
I'm just a pol who kept rolling along
until he ran into a stone wall.
:39:11
You were that wall.
:39:13
And I realized...
:39:14
...just like me when I was a kid.
:39:17
Young, ambitious, go-getter, but fair.
:39:21
Trading up, but always for
the right causes. You're doing good.
:39:25
Not putting money in your pocket.
Just trying to maintain your position.
:39:29
Your power.
:39:30
What good are you
to the people without it?
:39:33
But down deep...
:39:36
...you know there's a line you
can't cross.
:39:42
And after a thousand trades...
:39:45
...and one deal too many...
:39:48
...the line gets rubbed out.
:39:55
I had the fire in the belly
just like you, Kevin.
:39:59
And the odd thing is,
I still have it.