The Comey Rule (TV Mini Series)

Night One (2020)

Scoot McNairy: Rod Rosenstein

Quotes 

• Rod Rosenstein : You're wondering why there isn't any cake.

  Justin Patel : Afternoon, Mr. Rosenstein.

  Rod Rosenstein : Two reasons. One, I don't really like cake. And two, I hate false ceremony. Thank-yous are for Mother's Day.

  [going to his desk and seeing the book on the desktop] 

  Rod Rosenstein : Ah, Hoover. There's a lesson in Hoover's story, Justin. Director of the FBI is afforded an almost cultlike status. To resist that takes discipline. Humility. Hmm. As opposed to...

  [taking a book by James Comey off the bookshelf] 

  Rod Rosenstein : You know what they do every year on the Fourth of July? Jim Comey and his family?

  Justin Patel : No.

  Rod Rosenstein : They gather together and read the Declaration of Independence aloud to one another. That's not in his book. He just found a way to make sure that everyone knows. That's Jim. In governance, there are the people who do the work, and there are showboats. Jim... was always a showboat.