The Newsroom, Season 1

Tate Brady:
[in Will's office] I told you, this guy--

Will:
[walking in] This guy what?

Tate Brady:
Wasn't on the team.

Adam Roth:
He's on the team, okay?

Will:
Hang on. The team I'm on is the voters' and smart, qualified people disagreeing about issues.

Tate Brady:
Your plan was to embarrass the candidates.

Will:
I want candidates who can answer those questions. And if they know they're going to be held responsible for the nonsense they're shouting on the stump, they'll be forced to stop shouting nonsense.

Tate Brady:
This guy has lost his mind.

Adam Roth:
He hasn't.

Will:
Adam, this is exactly what we always talked about. This is what we dreamed of. We said we need real campaign reform and a way of letting Americans hear the two best competing arguments.

Tate Brady:
Nobody could stand up to that kind of questioning.

Will:
You think that was brutal questioning?

Adam Roth:
It really wasn't.

Tate Brady:
And you honestly believe the candidates would submit themselves to this?

Adam Roth:
They should welcome it.

Tate Brady:
I don't believe what I'm hearing.

Adam Roth:
Any candidate who can handle a cross is gonna find himself at the top of the polls in the morning. And we should welcome it 'cause it'll clear out the clown car and give us a serious discussion among serious candidates.

Tate Brady:
The only person who would welcome it is him. This is about him. He wants to look tough by making the candidates look like idiots.

Adam Roth:
No, he doesn't. I have known this man for 25 years and I vouch--

Tate Brady:
I don't care what you vouch for. I am not allowing the goddamn press to make fools out of our candidates.

Adam Roth:
I'll remember that the next time you bitch about how the press never vetted Obama.

Tate Brady:
[to Will] We're not agreeing to this format. You are going to abide by the rules that we give you and I don't want Mackenzie McHale producing it for you.

Will:
What are you talking about?

Tate Brady:
I want the old Will McAvoy. Not the thing she turned you into. I know all about that lady.

Will:
Get out.

Adam Roth:
Will, come on. You need the debate. Of course he can use Mackenzie.

Will:
These guys have been compromising and compromising all week so we could host a debate that made some sense and did some good.

Tate Brady:
Well, I'm sorry to hear that, because it was all for nothing.

Adam Roth:
We need ACN.

Tate Brady:
No, we don't.

Adam Roth:
They've got the independents.

Tate Brady:
He's not the only anchor at ACN. [marches out of office] Don Keefer.

Don:
Yeah?

Tate:
How would you and Elliot Hirsch like to have one of the debates?

Don:
Eat me.

Tate:
Mr. Skinner, I'm trying to be as-

Charlie:
When Don says, "Eat me," that's usually the end of the conversation.

Tate:
Sloan Sabbith. You want to be a star?

Sloan:
Me?

Tate:
Yeah.

Sloan:
F*** you.

Tate:
[To Adam] I hate these guys. I don't know why you don't.