Listen to Me Page #4

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on scholarship.

Maybe this will be our year,

maybe it won't.

Coach, just tell me

you believe we can do it.

Charlie, you know

we can do it, don't you?

We can do it.

-Good man.

-(CHUCKLING)

Charlie, I owe you, uh...

Well, I owe you a big thanks

for taking Gar

under your wing like that.

Thank you, sweetheart.

Your son and I

are good friends, but, uh,

the last time I looked

in the mirror,

-I'm sure as hell

didn't see any wings.

-(CHUCKLES)

SENATOR:

I wouldn't be surprised

if you try to bolter

Gar one more time

before he graduates.

I did.

Politics

is a very scary legacy

to inherit.

We all try to run from it

as long as we can.

CHARLIE:
All right.

When I call your name

come down and pick

a subject out of this hat.

Be prepared to speak

for five minutes.

Remember that we are

restricted to a team of 30.

With 15 returning debaters,

that means there's

only 15 open slots.

(AUDIENCE MURMURING)

"Should criminal lawyers

"defend clients they

believe are lying?"

Definitely not.

This kind

of personal dishonesty

is destroying the very fabric

of the legal profession.

It puts dangerous criminals

back on the streets

where they can steal,

and rape, and kill again,

but worst of all, it erodes

our faith in justice.

Now take the other side.

It doesn't matter

if you're guilty or innocent,

you have an inalienable right

to legal counsel,

and a lawyer has a duty

to provide it.

To take away this right

because some lawyer has come

to some personal conclusion

about the guilt of his client

is to deny that person

due process of law.

(STUDENTS CHEERING)

All right, Chicago!

I am here today, my friends,

to urge you to bring back

public hangings.

(STUDENTS CHEERING)

No, seriously,

ladies and gentlemen,

how else are we going

to scare our criminals

into leaving us alone,

unless we play for keeps?

I can see it.

Hangings on TV,

the Friday night

hanging of the week.

-Seriously.

-(STUDENTS CHUCKLING)

I mean, close-ups

on their faces,

-the instant their neck snap.

-(STUDENTS LAUGHING)

Cutaways

to their children's faces,

extreme close-ups

of the spittle drooling

from the lips of the

dearly departed. (CHUCKLES)

Now, Hugh, uh, as you can see

the color is draining rapidly

from the face and the legs

which stopped jerking

spasmodically,

and their eyes

have glazed over.

Yes, Barbra, you're right,

but we'll have to wait for the

celebrity coroner of the week

to tell us

if he's officially dead.

(STUDENTS APPLAUDING)

Ms. Lumis, your resume

tells me that in high school

you had some success

as a public speaker.

But I should have to warn you

that on the college circuit,

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