Joan of Arcadia, Season One

Grace:
Y'know, this whole debate is a joke.

Friedman:
I have a very strong rebuttal.

Grace:
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.

Mr. Price:
I would like you to leave, Miss Polk.

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

Mr. Enfield:
Remember decorum? Manners? Civility?

Grace:
Yeah, all the things that used to keep us down? Well guess what, today is about freedom.

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

Mr. Enfield:
You're not debating this young woman, Miss Girardi. I suggest you not deviate from the rules.

Friedman:
[In undertone to Glynis] We're so gonna win this debate.

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

Mr. Price:
Alright, out!

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

Grace:
You believe in this crap?

Joan:
I don't know what I believe. I know Ramsey came in here with a gun. I know people could have died - you, me. You said I think like this becasue 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 bigot, 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 that the cops are in someplace and shots are fired, I wonder if I'm ever going to see my father again. 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 sort of believe in in the first place. 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.