Leslie Knope Quote #35
Quote from Leslie Knope in Canvassing
Leslie Knope: Before we continue, I'd love to just give you a little history of Pawnee. The City of Pawnee was incorporated in 1817, when a young man by the name of Reverend Luther Howell came from Terre Haute on an ox. He planted his flag in the ground and was met soon after by an angry tribe of Wamapoke Indians, who, when seeing the whiteness of his skin, twisted him to death. Flash forward to 1969. Man walks on the moon. Pawnee is lousy with hippies...
Ron Swanson: My, God. She's filibustering her own meeting.
[aside to camera:]
Leslie Knope: Filibuster! Boom! They can't touch you if you talk forever.
[back:]
Leslie Knope: I can't speak of the future, but I will. The future of Pawnee will involve us flying around in space taxis, where we will communicate on watches, and blink our feelings to each other, rather than use words. And now, I'd like to take a magical journey through a little something I like to call The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster.
Kate: Excuse me? Can't you read that children's book on your own time?
Leslie Knope: I have the floor! "There once was a boy named Milo, who didn't know what to do with himself, not just sometimes, but..."
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Leslie Knope: [aside to camera] Why do I want to build this park so bad? Maybe because a pit filled with garbage isn't the best that we can do in America. You know, in Russia, they could pretend that pit was a park, bring their kids down there. "Hey, Vlad! Look at these rocks! Let's pretend they're potatoes!" "Nikolai! Do you want to swim in the dirt?" But not here. Okay? 'Cause we're a nation of dreamers. And it is my dream to build a park. That I one day visit with my White House staff on my birthday. And they say, "President Knope, this park is awesome. Now we understand why you are the first female President of the United States."
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Leslie Knope: [aside to camera] I'm going to see my mom. She's a big mucky-muck in the county school system. She's my hero. How do I explain her? She's as respected as Mother Teresa. She's as powerful as Stalin, and she's as beautiful as Margaret Thatcher.
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Woman: Well, look, I think this is a great idea, but I can't make any forum. I would have to get a babysitter.
Leslie Knope: How old are your kids?
Woman: Four and two.
Leslie Knope: Could the 4-year-old watch the 2-year-old?