"Quit being obtuse and listen.  If this boy were a penniless nobody, there would be no problem.  But he has the misfortune to be indisputably the heir to more wealth than Croesus ever dreamed of... plus a highly disputable claim to political power even greater through a politico-judicial precedent unparalleled in pure jug-headedness since the time Secretary Fall was convicted of receiving a bribe that Doheny was acquitted of having given him."