The Life of David Gale (2003)

Michael Crabtree: Governor Hardin

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• [Governor Hardin and David Gale are engaged in a debate on Batter's Box] 

  Governor Hardin : Alan, let me say something I always say and I'm gonna keep on saying. And that is that I HATE killin'. That's why my administration is willing to kill to stop it.

  David Gale : So, you don't subscribe to the idea that 'a good state is the one that protects its most despised members?'

  Governor Hardin : It's a nice liberal idea. But, like most nice liberal ideas, naive.

  David Gale : It's a quote from you, Governor. From your first state attorney campaign

  Governor Hardin : [flustered]  You've got me, Professor. But let me, in my defense, offer YOU a quote. Winston Churchill: 'If you're not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart, if you're still a liberal at thirty, you've got no brain.'

  [studio audience laughs] 

  David Gale : So, basically, you feel, to choose another quote, 'society must be cleansed of elements which represent its own death.'

  Governor Hardin : Well, yes. I'd have to agree.

  [laughs] 

  Governor Hardin : Did I say that too?

  David Gale : No, that was Hitler.