The West Wing (TV Series)

Undecideds (2005)

Teri Polo: Helen Santos

Quotes 

• Matthew Santos : You all think that there is something I can get up there and say that's going to bridge the divide? Well, there isn't.

  Helen Santos : I don't think that's true.

  Matthew Santos : Well, the staff doesn't either, so maybe you should get together and talk about it.

  Helen Santos : You don't have to say the right thing, which, conveniently, doesn't exist, but you do have to say something from your heart.

  Matthew Santos : I do, huh?

  Helen Santos : Yeah.

  Matthew Santos : Nobody wants to hear that, Helen. They want to hear what I have to say as the representative for every Latino man, woman, and child in the 50 United States. And let me tell you something: I'm frankly getting very tired of being responsible for every Jose Miguel Rodrigo Garcia Martinez de Lopez in America. I'm exhausted!

  Helen Santos : Nobody expects that.

  Matthew Santos : Of course, they do! They want me to make sense out of all of this. And you know what, Helen, I've got nothing. Why the hell do they shoot a kid who is trying to surrender? There's some guy on the scene that says the kid was trying to put his hands up in the air. The cop couldn't have waited, like, a half a second more before he fired? And who walks around South Central with a plastic M-16? Where did this kid think he was living, Martha's Vineyard? Nobody figured out that when you live in the ghetto, you carry around something else if you don't want to get your ass blown away? That's what I've got right now. You think that's going to make anyone feel better?