Amistad (1997)

Roy Cooper: Pickney

Quotes 

• Pickney : [addressing the House]  ... In closing, I call upon our distinguished colleague from Massachusetts, Representative John Quincy Adams, to reweigh his unmeet and unprecedented attempt to convert this eccentric bequest of - let's be frank - a bunch of junk from one James Smithson, into a so-called institute of national treasure!

  [everyone turns and looks at Adams, who appears to be dozing] 

  Pickney : Perhaps Mr. Adams is meditating on his response?

  [laughter] 

  John Quincy Adams : [with eyes still closed]  Had I thought your remarks worthy of any kind of riposte, Representative Pickney, be assured you'd have heard from me... hours ago.