Stolypin: I don't like the duma any more than you do, but I'd rather let them talk than have to deal with riots and strikes and marches. It would be better to give them more power than face that.
Nicholas: I am the czar. And I would never accept that.
Stolypin: [holding out a dossier] Police reports on Grigori Efimovitch Rasputin. Drunk half the time. Whores, generals' wives. Oh, he's generous with himself. I'll say that for him. That's his only Christian virtue. He'll sleep with anyone, and it's no secret. Everybody knows it. He came to see me, apparently with Her Majesty's blessing. He even tried to hypnotize me. Why is such a man admitted to the palace?
Nicholas: You know why.
Stolypin: Your people don't.
Nicholas: I'll tell them, shall I? "Citizens, your czarevitch could get a bloody nose and die from it."