President Rufus Daggett Quotes in Son of Flubber (1963)

Professor Ned Brainard: [speaking to Daggett about his meeting at Washington] Things aren't quite as simple as I hoped they'd be.

Alonzo Hawk: So they gave you the ol' dipsy-do, huh? They really sandbagged you. They hung your hide up on the barn door to dry.

President Rufus Daggett: Professor, am I to assume something has gone amiss?

Professor Ned Brainard: Well...

President Rufus Daggett: But I thought they were delighted with your discovery.

Professor Ned Brainard: Oh, they are. It's just... Well, it's a little hard to explain.

Alonzo Hawk: May I?

[walks up to Brainard and Daggett]

Alonzo Hawk: Allow me to boil it down for you gentlemen, and you'll be sure if I get it straight?

[to Brainard]

Alonzo Hawk: Number one: the boys in Washington latched onto your little discovery so you can't sell it anywhere else.

[Brainard nods slowly]

Alonzo Hawk: Number two: they're not about to give you any money until they think it over. Number three: meantime, you've got no money. How am I doing?

[Brainard nods again]

Alonzo Hawk: Number four: somebody'd better lay 350,000 clams on the barrel-head, first of the month by 9AM, to pay off the short-term loan made to this college by the Auld Lang Syne Insurance and Loan Company, or else, exactly at 9:03, a fleet of bulldozers owned by the Auld Lang Syne Demolition and Wrecking Company will start rolling through those hallowed gates and start flattening these ivy-covered walls in all directions. Period! End of story! Very sad. But, uh, personally, I'm crazy about it.

[chuckles]

President Rufus Daggett: I can't believe you'd do a thing like that, Mr. Hawk.

Alonzo Hawk: Oh, you can't?

President Rufus Daggett: No.

Alonzo Hawk: Well, boys, it looks like I'm calling the tune again. Anybody care to dance?