McNair Quotes in Just Cause (1995)

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McNair Quotes:

  • McNair: [McNair was Bobby Earl's inefficient defence attorney] Regardless of what you may think of me, I did defend that boy to the very best of my abilities. And, boy, has it cost me. Hell, I lost half of my business from defending that son-of-a-bitch. And he got the chair. You have any idea what my life would be like if I had gotten him acquitted?

  • Thomson: [calling for a vote] Where's Rhode Island?

    McNair: Rhode Island's out visiting the necessary.

    Hancock: Well, after what Rhode Island has consumed, I can't say I'm surprised. We'll come back to him, Mr. Thompson.

    Thomson: Rhode Island passes.

    [Roar of laughter from the Congress]

  • [repeated line]

    McNair: Awww Sweet Jesus!

  • McNair: Mr. Hopkins, you'll be pleased to meet Dr. Lyman Hall.

    Hopkins: I don't need a doctor, damn it.

    McNair: [whispering] New delegate from Georgia!

    Hopkins: [whispering] Well why didn't you say so?

  • McNair: Seen any fighting?

    Courier: Sure did. I seen my two best friends get shot dead on the very same day. And at Lexington it was, too. Right on the village green it was. And when they didn't come home for supper their mamas went out looking for 'em. Mrs. Lowell, she found Timothy right off. But Mrs. Pickett looked near half the night for William. Seems he crawled off the green before he died.

  • Col. Thomas McKean: [to Read] Sit down ya scurvy dog or I'll knock ya down!

    Hancock: [to the Delaware delagates] Sit down all three of you!

    [dog starts barking]

    Hancock: McNair! Do something about that damn dog!

    Hopkins: McNair, fetch me a rum!

    Hancock: Get the dog first!

    Hopkins: No! A rum!

    [both start shouting at once]

    McNair: I only got two hands!

    Hancock: [screaming] Christ, it's hot!

    [pause]

    Hancock: Do go on, gentlemen, you're making the only breeze in Philadelphia.

  • Hopkins: McNair!

    McNair: [behind him] Your rum!

    Hopkins: Where'd you go for it, man - Jamaica?

  • McNair: I can't say I'm very fond of the United States of America as a name for a new country.

  • Dr. Lyman Hall: Excuse me.

    McNair: Uh, yes?

    Dr. Lyman Hall: I'm Dr. Lyman Hall, the new delegate from Georgia.

    McNair: I'm Andrew McNair, Congressional custodian. If you'll be wanting anything at all, just holler out "McNair" as all the others do, and there won't be too long to wait.

    Dr. Lyman Hall: Uh, where does the Georgia delegation belong?

    McNair: Oh, they mill about over in that corner, near the two Carolinas.

  • [first lines]

    McNair: [Adams stands with the Liberty Bell, lost in thought] Mr. Adams? Mr. Adams? Mr. Adams! Well, there you are. Didn't you hear me calling, Mr. Adams? You could have shouted down something, save me climbing up four flights. A man that likes to talk as much as you do, I think...

    [Adams turns and gives McNair a hard stare]

    McNair: What do you keep coming up here for, Mr. Adams? Afraid someone's gonna steal our bell?

    [he chortles]

    McNair: Well, no worry. Been here more than fourteen years and it ain't been carried off once.

    [he laughs, but Adams is not in the mood]

    McNair: You'd better get yourself back down to Congress, Mr. Adams. They're getting ready to vote, and they said they couldn't settle such an important question without Massachusetts being there.

    John Adams: [sarcastic] I can just imagine. All right, what burning issue are we voting on this time?

    McNair: On whether or not to grant General Washington's request that all members of the Rhode Island militia be required to wear matching uniforms.

    John Adams: Oh, good god.

  • Charles Thomson: Rhode Island. Second call Rhode Island.

    McNair: Rhode Island!

    Hopkins: I'm coming, I'm coming, hold your damn horses.

    Charles Thomson: We're waiting on you, Mr. Hopkins.

    Hopkins: Well, it won't kill you. You'd think the Congress would have its own privy. All right, where's she stand?

    Charles Thomson: Five for debate, five for postponement, one abstention and one absence.

    Hopkins: So it's up to me, huh? Well, I'll tell you, in all my years, I never seen, heard, nor smelled an issue that was so dangerous it couldn't be talked about. Hell yes, I'm for debating anything! Rhode Island says yea.

    [Indistinguishable cheers and shouts]

    John Hancock: McNair, get Mr. Hopkins a rum.

    McNair: But you said...

    John Hancock: Get him a whole damned barrel if he wants.

  • John Hancock: [the courier enters Independence Hall with a report from Washington; Thomson rings a bell to call the delegates to order] From the Commander, Army of the United Colonies, New York, dispatch number 1,137...

    McNair: Aw, sweet Jesus!

    John Hancock: [Hancock resumes reading] The honorable Congress, John Hancock president. "Dear Sirs: It is with great apprehension that I have learned this day of the sailing from Halifax, Nova Scotia, of a considerable force of British troops in the company of foreign mercenaries and under the command of General Sir William Howe. There can be no doubt that their destination is New York; for to take and hold this city and the Hudson Valley beyond would seriously separate New England from the rest of the colonies, permitting both sections to be crushed in turn. Sadly, I see no way of stopping them at the present time, as my army's absolutely falling apart. My military chest is totally exhausted. My commissary general has strained his credit to the last. My quartermaster has no food, no arms, no ammunition, and my troops are in a state of near mutiny. I pray God some relief arrives before the Armada but fear it will not. Your obedient..."

    John Hancock: [drumroll] "G. Washington."

    McNair: [bangs his desk and stands up] Mister President!

    John Hancock: Colonel McKean.

    Col. Thomas McKean: Sure, we have managed to promote the gloomiest man on this continent to the head of our troops. Those dispatches are the most depr-ressing accumulation of disaster, doom, and despair in the entire annals of human history!

    John Hancock: [Hancock hits his desk with the gavel] Colonel McKean, please!

    Col. Thomas McKean: What?

    John Hancock: It's too hot.

    Col. Thomas McKean: Okay, I suppose so.

    John Hancock: [McKean sits down] General Washington will continue wording his dispatches as he sees fit; and I'm sure we he finds happier thoughts to convey in the near... future.

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