The Public (2018)

Christian Slater: Josh Davis

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• Josh Davis : It is my job to uphold the law and to protect democracy in this city.

  Anderson : You know, I devoted my entire life to preserving the freedom of information that flows in and out of this institution! The public library is the last bastion of democracy in this country, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna sit here and let you thugs turn it into a battlefield!

• Josh Davis : They're not coming out of there unless we make them.

  Detective Bill Ramstead : I know.

  Josh Davis : No matter how this thing goes down, we're gonna look like the bad guys.

  Detective Bill Ramstead : ...I know.

• Josh Davis : Stuart Goodson... What is it with this guy? He seems hell bent on ruining my week!

  Anderson : He thinks he's saving people's lives by keeping them out of the cold.

  Josh Davis : Well, we have shelters in place for that!

  Ernesto Ramirez : Well, apparently not enough of them!

  Josh Davis : So that's what this is all about? It's some sort of exercise in civil disobedience?