Traffic (2000): New Drug Project

The clip new drug project from Traffic (2000) with Albert Finney, D.W. Moffett

under no circumstances will you speak to the press unprotected...
without going through this office...
or having someone in the room.
There are a lot of interests in this town.
Right now, they're scared of you.
The reason they're scared of you: Technically, you have veto powers over their budgets.
You'll also be meeting senators and congressmen,
each with a specially prepared question.
They're questions designed for one thing
to make them look smart.
If you lecture them, they won't think you respect them.
If you treat them with utter humility, they will.
This is about your respect for them and the president's respect for them.
Speaking of which, when he gets back from Russia and China,
we'll get you two together for some face time, let you two catch up.
Also, one month from today, you will give your first official press conference.
In it, you will outline the president's strategy for winning the war on drugs.
Judge, I just want to be clear about one thing:
I am not a partisan person, I am an issue person.
Over the course of the next few weeks, if you allow me,
I will bring you up to speed on an incredible array of issues,
the most important ofwhich, in my opinion, Mexico.
I know everyone you're going to meet. I know what they want and why.
It is important that they like you.
It is not important that they like me.
That is why I can help protect you.
Like you protected Landry?
I see where you're going with that.
If I could say one thing: Basically, a guy like Landry is so autocratic,
he doesn't even know how to let himself be helped.
There's a political component to this job that the general didn't have any patience for.
General, Bob Wakefield.

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