Role Model
At a high-level campaign fundraiser, a senator becomes violently ill. Vogler forces House to take the senator's case and offers to let off the hook on firing a team member if he'll deliver a speech on behalf of Vogler's pharmaceutical company. It looks like the senator has AIDS but House refuses to settle for the easy answer. And House ends up giving the speech, but it doesn't go quite as Vogler planned.
House: "He didn't have any reason to lie."
Wilson: "Everybody lies .... except politicians? House, I believe you're a romantic. You didn't just believe him - you believed in him. You want to come over tonight and watch old movies and cry? "
House: "You're a black kid from the ghetto who made it to Yale Law and the United States Senate. That's a sufficiently mythical story, you don't need to lie about your tongue."
Senator: "You're scared of taking chances."
House: "I take chances all the time. It's one of my worst qualities."
House: "You are the most naive atheist I've ever met."
House: "Some day there will be a black President. Some day there will be a gay President. Maybe there'll even be a gay, black President. But one combination I do not see happening is gay, black, and dead. You need to stop lying to me."
House: "Are you ... comparing me to God? I mean, that's great, but just so you know, I've never made a tree."
