Election (1999)

Phil Reeves: Walt Hendricks

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Quotes 

• [Dave's affair with Tracy has been discovered] 

  Dave Novotny : [tearfully]  Tracy's mom, she doesn't understand.

  Walt Hendricks : No, I'd say she doesn't. The fact is I have never seen a mother so upset. All right, I know what Tracy told her mother, what her mother told me, I need to hear this from you, because I have a legal responsibility here. Let me ask you this... Did you cross the line with this girl?

  Dave Novotny : I... We... We're in love.

  [he sobs helplessly] 

• Tracy Flick : [giving her opening election speech in front of the assembled student body]  Poet Henry David Thoreau once wrote "I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better." With this election, we here at Carver also have an opportunity to make our high school days better. During this campaign, I've spoken with many of you about your many concerns. I spoke with Eliza Ramirez, a freshman, who says she feels alienated from her own homeroom. I spoke with sophomore Reggie Banks, who said his mother works in the cafeteria and can't afford to buy him enough spiral notebooks for his classes.

  'Eat Me' Boy : Eat Me!

  'Eat Me' Boy's Buddy : Eat me raw!

  [some of the students snigger. The principal comes over to the microphrone stand. He is a foot taller than the petite Tracy so he has to crouch to speak into it] 

  Walt Hendricks : Hey, if you can't be adults and give these candidates the courtesy they deserve, then you don't deserve to be called adults, but children, because what children are and you'll be treated like children.