Joan of Arcadia (TV Series)

State of Grace (2004)

Becky Wahlstrom: Grace Polk

Quotes 

• Grace Polk : You know, this whole debate is a joke!

  Friedman : I, uh... I have a very strong rebuttal.

  Grace Polk : Like it matters! No matter what happens in this debate, those metal detectors will still be there. They will still stop us and search us.

  Gavin Price : I would like you to leave, Ms. Polk.

  Grace Polk : Oh, gee, remember free speech, Mr. Price?

  Mr. Enfield : Remember decorum? Manners? Civility?

  Grace Polk : Yeah, all the things they use to keep us down. Well, guess what? Today is about freedom.

  Joan : You call what you're doing right now free speech?

  Mr. Enfield : You are not debating this young woman, Ms. Girardi. I suggest you not deviate from the rules.

  Friedman : [quietly to Glynis]  We are so gonna win this debate.

  Grace Polk : That's right, Girardi. Party line. That's what it's about.

  Gavin Price : All right, out.

  Joan : And what's it about for you, Grace? Your idea of freedom is a world where everybody agrees with you?

  Grace Polk : You believe in this crap?

  Joan : I don't know what I believe! I know Ramsay came in here with a gun. I know people could have died. You, me! You said I think like this because my father's a cop; like that's bad? Yeah, my dad is a cop, and you may think that makes him some kind of pig, but he deals with those guns every day! This is not some political thing for him, this is reality. He's had them pointed at him and shoved in his face, and that makes it real for me, too, because every time I hear the cops are someplace and shots are fired, I wonder if I'm ever gonna see my father again! I... I don't think we should have to, like, live in some prison; that sucks. But I do know we have to deal with this. We have to work something out! Even if it's not what we started believing in the first place. I... I know I'm mouthing off, Mr. Enfield, and I can't cite some report to back up my theories. I... this is just how I feel.