- [arriving at the office, taking off his coat]
- Bradley Grist: Y'hear that noise? That click, click, click, click. That's the sound the pulley makes as the casket descends. It's a toss in the dirt, hang up the shovels, say 'Hi' to the Big Sleep. 'Cause it's over. We're dead, dying, deadness, dead.
- Bradley Grist: What would be the worst news in the world you could hear right now?
- Jordan Miller: The rabbit died.
- Sophie Lipkin: What sort of an act is it that you do?
- Sen. William Franklin Powers: [with his teeth firmly clenched] Ventriloquism.
- Jordan Miller: But, maybe you wanna show them how versatile you are. Try something new, something fresh, with a cutting edge.
- Bradley Grist: [with mounting desperation] Anything, Sir, I'm personally begging you. Please change the act. Ab' - how 'bout - how 'bout flaming batons? An accordion. I think you'd be better off playing two trombones with a duck in your pants.
- Sen. William Franklin Powers: I can't. Ann Richards did that last year.