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Adjournment[edit]
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- I am against an adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause of an adjournment: if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.
- Abraham Davenport response to a call for adjourning the Connecticut State Council because of fears that the deep darkness might be a sign that the Last Judgment was approaching, as quoted by Timothy Dwight, in Connecticut Historical Collectons 2d ed (1836) compiled by John Warner Barber, p. 403.
Fiction[edit]
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)[edit]
- McMurphy: [When The Chief slowly raises his hand] The Chief voted. Now, will you please turn on the television set?
- Nurse Ratched: [she opens the glass panel] Mr. McMurphy, the meeting was adjourned and the vote was closed.
- McMurphy: But the vote was 10 to 8. The Chief, he's got his hand up! Look!
- Nurse Ratched: No, Mr. McMurphy. When the meeting was adjourned, the vote was 9 to 9.
- McMurphy: Aw come on, you're not gonna say that now. You're not gonna say that now. You're gonna pull that hen-house shit now when the vote...the Chief just voted - it was 10 to 8. Now I want that television set turned on, right now.
- [Nurse Ratched slides the glass panel across the front of the Nurse's Station, shutting out his protest.]
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington[edit]
- Clarissa Saunders: You get to your feet in the Senate, take a long breath, and start spouting, but not too loud because a couple of the Senators might want to sleep. Then a curly-headed page boy takes it up to the desk where a long-faced clerk reads it, refers it to the right committee...
- Jefferson Smith: ...Why?
- Clarissa Saunders: Look, committees are small groups of Senators that have to sit the bill down, look into it, study it and report to the whole Senate. You can't take a bill nobody ever heard about and discuss it among ninety-six men. Where would you get?...Now days are going by, Senator. Days, weeks! Finally, they think it's quite a bill. It goes over to the House of Representatives for debate and a vote. But it has to wait it's turn on the calendar...That's the order of business. Your bill has to stand way back there in line unless the steering committee thinks it's important.
- Jefferson Smith: What's that?
- Clarissa Saunders: ...Do you really think we're getting anywhere?
- Jefferson Smith: Oh yes Miss Saunders. Now tell me, what's the steering committee?
- Clarissa Saunders: A committee of the majority party leaders. They decide when a bill is important enough to be moved up toward the head of the list.
- Jefferson Smith: Well, this is!
- Clarissa Saunders: ...Where are we now?...Oh yeah, House. More amendments, more changes and the bill goes back to the Senate. If the Senate doesn't like what the House did to the bill, they make more changes. If the House doesn't like those changes, stymied.
- Jefferson Smith: So?
- Clarissa Saunders: So they appoint men from each House to go into a huddle called a conference and they battle it out. Finally, if your bill is still alive after all this vivisection, it comes to a vote. Yes sir, the big day finally arrives [pause] and Congress adjourns. [The smile on Smith's face droops.] Catching on, Senator?
- Jefferson Smith: Uh huh. Shall we start on it right away or order dinner first?
Blazing Saddles[edit]
- Hedley Lamarr: Meeting adjourned. Oh, I am sorry, sir I didn't mean to overstep my bounds, you say that.
- Governor William J. Le Petomane: What?
- Hedley Lamarr: Meeting is adjourned.
- Governor William J. Le Petomane: It is?
- Hedley Lamarr: No, you say that, governor.
- Governor William J. Le Petomane: What?
- Hedley Lamarr: Meeting is adjourned.
- Governor William J. Le Petomane: It is?
- Hedley Lamarr: Here, sir, play with this.
Point of order[edit]
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Fiction[edit]
- Yetch: Point of order. Point of information. Point of importance.
- Mad Monster Party? (1969)
- [To Sen. Iselin] I keep telling you not to think. You're very, very good at a great many things, but thinking, hon', just simply isn't one of them. You just keep shouting "Point of Order, Point of Order" into the television cameras and I will handle the rest.
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)
- Jefferson Smith: Now, I had some pretty good coaching last night, and I find that if I yield only for a question or a point of order or a personal privilege, that I can hold this floor almost until doomsday. In other words, I've got a piece to speak, and blow hot or cold, I'm going to speak it.
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- [The filibuster begins]
- President of Senate: The Chair recognizes... Senator Smith!
- Jefferson Smith: Thank you, sir.
- Clarissa Saunders: Diz, here we go.
- Jefferson Smith: Well, I guess the gentlemen are in a pretty tall hurry to get me out of here. *The way the evidence has piled up against me, I can't say I blame them much. And I'm quite *willing to go, sir, when they vote it that way - but before that happens I've got a few things *I want to say to this body. I tried to say them once before, and I got stopped colder than a mackerel. Well, I'd like to get them said this time, sir. And as a matter of fact, I'm not going to leave this body until I do get them said.
- Senator Joseph Paine: Mr. President, will the Senator yield?
- President of Senate: Will the Senator yield?
- Jefferson Smith: No, sir, I'm afraid not, no sir. I yielded the floor once before, if you can remember, and I was practically never heard of again. No sir. And we might as well all get together on this yielding business right off the bat, now.
- [laughter from the gallery]
- Jefferson Smith: Now, I had some pretty good coaching last night, and I find that if I yield only for a question or a point of order or a personal privilege, that I can hold this floor almost until doomsday. In other words, I've got a piece to speak, and blow hot or cold, I'm going to speak it.
- Senator Joseph Paine: Will the Senator yield?
- President of Senate: Will Senator Smith yield?
- Jefferson Smith: Yield how, sir?
- Senator Joseph Paine: Will he yield for a question?
- Jefferson Smith: For a question, alright.
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Lisa: Point of order, if we want to learn anything, we must respect--
- Bart: Point of "odor," Lisa stinks.
(children laugh)
- The Simpsons/Season 9 Das Bus [9.14]