A scene from The Life of David Gale 2003
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.

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.

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]

So, basically, you feel, to choose another quote, 'a healthy society must stop at nothing to cleanse itself of evil.'

Governor Hardin

Well, yes. I'd have to agree. [laughs] Did I say that too?

No sir, that was Hitler.

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