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Sundays 10:00 PM on ShowtimeMike Prince Quotes
Axe: You've still got about a hundred million in those accounts, don't you?
Prince: Just about, yeah.
Axe: Well, in Indiana, that's like being a billionaire.
Prince: That's right. Yes, it is. You know what? Maybe I should be thanking all you bastards for giving me a chance to go out and do it all again. Spin it up.
You're all frozen in place. Wendy, you're a lame duck here. You'll execute your new CEO duties. And if nothing else goes wrong, you'll fully onboard there after the election, at which time you'll be fired. If you haven't figured it out yet, I'm a majority owner of Mental through a shell company. Taylor, you're done. No authority. Login privileges. A figurehead. Call it garden leave but inside a glass box. One notable exception to the outward-facing status quo, Wagner. You'll lose your ability to authorize large trades. And small trades. Pay stubs. You can just kind of walk around shouting nonsense mantras to the traders. So, for you, nothing really changes.
Prince: Wendy, Wags, and Taylor had been plotting an assassination. My assassination. Staying silent is the first wise thing any of you have done in a long while.
Philip: Do you need me to get security to escort them out?
Prince: I won't be firing the three of them without making this public. Not yet. No, they're going to be punished in a different way. First, they're going to lose every cent of bonus money they have coming to them, and their other money is going to remain in the fund. Gated to ensure no further disloyalty. They'll also lose their reputations when they lose the corporate espionage suit we filed. Oh, that's right. We haven't filed it yet. But that's that's good to go, right, Kate?
Sacker: Yeah, It's already signed and sealed, waiting to be delivered.
If a hostile nation-state were going to initiate, we knew they had planned to launch. I would be open to launching first to shut them down to save further carnage.
Bradford: Dunlop's burning up the track ahead of us.
Prince: I'll catch her in the National before that happens.
Bradford: You will. But if she gets the endorsement of George Pike the 4th, you won't. Getting FaceTime with 4th is harder than following Bernie Mac at the Apollo.
Scooter: Thing of beauty.
Prince: I tell you the coverage of what I said at Teresa; I couldn't have written it better myself.
Bradford: Sure, but guys, we can't be handing out gold stars for some article that gets us a one-point increase.
Phillip: So, no one gets to benefit. It's like everyone just literally said fine, kill the damned infant.
Prince: Well, the upside is that when I take the oath of office, and I do declassify it and release it, it'll start us off very, very nicely.
Sacker: Better. You hold until right after you announce for a second term. Eight years in office for President Prince locked up.
Prince: I like that a lot.
I'm Mike Prince. If you only follow the primaries, you don't know me. And that's by design, so the status quo can keep a hold of your futures. I bought this time, and it didn't come cheap because I'm my own man. And because we need to have a hard conversation about why both parties and our system are broken. This is about the inventory we all need to take in order to get where we're going, even if we don't always like what we see.
I built my first company in a Bloomington garage. I had a flip phone and three maxed-out credit cards for capital. Don't come in here and complain about a $500 million ceiling.
Okay. A trainer feeds a caged tiger fresh beef so it develops a taste for that instead of trainer. The tiger's waiting by his door, same time every day, ready to pounce on it. But you know the scariest moment of a trainer's life? When he goes inside the enclosure and the cat isn't there. They can't see it. Doesn't mean that cat escaped, it means it's hiding, ready to revert to its nature and hunt. I can't afford to let Chuck Rhoades revert to his nature.
Bradford: I have a lot of respect for how you two have handled your relationship. Conflicting ambitions are a difficult thing to manage. And you built a good arrangement.
Andy: Thanks. It worked for us.
Bradford: But the open part of the marriage can't continue during the campaign.
Prince: We know, but how did you know?
Bradford: My job to know. I heard a whisper and followed it up but couldn't get it confirmed, Andy's stuff in the bathroom was a nice touch, but this layer of marital harmony is about one night thick. Things have supposedly changed, but the American electorate isn't ready for a first couple with an arrangement.
Andy: He's good.
Andy: So, what now?
Bradford: I need to wade in the murky parts of this with you, and you're gonna have to let me. I need to know it all.
Prince: We can do that.
Bradford: OK, let's start with the names of all your partners in the last five years.
Yeah, well, with me, you'll be paid in cash. And when we win, you'll be feted as a miracle worker.
