First Monday in October (1981)

Walter Matthau: Dan Snow

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Quotes 

• Justice Dan Snow : She wants me to disqualify myself because I won't go down there and sit through that pile of crap?

  Chief Justice Crawford : Uh, well, uh...

  Justice Dan Snow : So its crap. What if it is crap? That's not the point. Crap's got the right to be crap.

  Chief Justice Crawford : Drop the legal language, Dan.

• Justice Dan Snow : You don't have to agree with a man in order to respect him.

• Justice Dan Snow : The telephone has no constitutional right to be answered.

• Mason Woods : Would you like tea or whiskey?

  Justice Dan Snow : Both. No, skip the tea, I don't want to overdo it.

• Ruth Loomis : [the Justices posing for a group photograph]  Should we smile a little?

  Justice Dan Snow : Good God, no. Who'd trust a happy Justice?

• Justice Dan Snow : You're not bothering me, you're interrupting me, but you're not bothering me.

• Justice Dan Snow : I don't care how you seat them, try chairs.

• Justice Dan Snow : To you it's a mess, to me it's a wilderness of free association. Don't ever straighten up my desk Mason, I'd never be able to find anything. I've always been suspicious of neatness. If there is nothing on top of a man's desk, he probably shoved all the clutter in the drawers and if his drawers are empty, what the hell does he need a desk for?

• Justice Dan Snow : [Justice Snow being asked his opinion on the selection of the next Supreme Court Judge]  I never try to second guess a President. A man moves into the White House no one knows what happens to his mind. Only hope they have an active member card of the human race.