(Listening incredulously)
And to get ready you are willing to link arms now with Senator Bough—a man you once called the lackey of Wall Street—a man who has always opposed every democratic principle....
White
Yes. Don’t you see the Government is beginning to realize they can’t do without us? Don’t you see my appointment is an acknowledgment of the rising tide of radicalism in the world? Don’t you see, with the prestige that will come to me from this appointment, I will have greater power after the war; power to bring about the realization of all our dreams; power to demand—even at the Peace table itself, perhaps—that all wars must end?
Hilda
Do you actually believe you will have any power with your own people when you have compromised them for a temporary expediency?
White
(With a gesture)
The leader must be wiser than the people who follow.
Hilda