The Comey Rule (TV Mini Series)
Night One (2020)
Dalmar Abuzeid: Justin Patel
Quotes
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Rod Rosenstein : You're wondering why there isn't any cake.
Justin Patel : Afternoon, Mr. Rosenstein.
Rod Rosenstein : Two reasons. One, I don't really like cake. And two, I hate false ceremony. Thank-yous are for Mother's Day.
[going to his desk and seeing the book on the desktop]
Rod Rosenstein : Ah, Hoover. There's a lesson in Hoover's story, Justin. Director of the FBI is afforded an almost cultlike status. To resist that takes discipline. Humility. Hmm. As opposed to...
[taking a book by James Comey off the bookshelf]
Rod Rosenstein : You know what they do every year on the Fourth of July? Jim Comey and his family?
Justin Patel : No.
Rod Rosenstein : They gather together and read the Declaration of Independence aloud to one another. That's not in his book. He just found a way to make sure that everyone knows. That's Jim. In governance, there are the people who do the work, and there are showboats. Jim... was always a showboat.