Oliver Tull

[Governor Hardin and David Gale are engaged in a debate on Batter's Box]

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.

David Gale: 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.

David Gale: 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]

David Gale: So, basically, you feel, to choose another quote, 'society must be cleansed of elements which represent its own death.'

Governor Hardin: Well, yes. I'd have to agree.

[laughs]

Governor Hardin: Did I say that too?

David Gale: No, that was Hitler.