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Det börjar dra ihop sig till val i USA, och i en ringhörnan står demokraten Matt Santos (Jimmy Smiths) och i andra republikanen tillika senatorn Arnold Vinick (Alan Alda). De möts i en debatt som spränger alla tidigare ramar i fråga om struktur i en debatt, till publikens förtjusning, och när de kommer in på ämnet utbildning pratar de sig båda varma. Arnold Vinick drar följande harrang:

Arnold: "So let me tell you what our goals should be, our realistic goals. First of all, let's, let's stop pretending that everyone can or should go to college. Every airline needs high-paid mechanics, none of them have to go to college. There are plumbers in some parts of the country who make a better living than dentists. Now, I'm not talking about lowering our ambitions.
I'm talking about targeting our ambitions correctly. Now, it's true some other countries are doing better academically than they used to, but we still have the best scientists in the world, the best doctors, and by far the most Nobel prizes. And If a kid does well in one of those foreign high schools, guess where he or she wants to go to college. That's right: Harvard, Stanford, Cal Tech, University of Texas, and a hundred other American universities that are better than anything they have in their countries."