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Mrs Grassby: Of course he has a price.
MR STEVENSON: If you would be quiet for a minute and let me tell you, I will tell you; but you would have to shut up.
Mr Humphries: All right. It is worth it. I will do it.
MR STEVENSON: Good. So, do I have a price? I have no personal price, and you know it. The sort of people who would make that statement signify that they do not believe that, and the reason why people usually do not believe that is that it is not within their hearts to do the same thing. They cannot believe it; it is way past their reality, their level of understanding and comprehension, to understand that people could not be personally bought. But, let me tell you, there are many people who have no material benefit that controls them. Only those people who themselves have so little integrity - - -
Mr Berry: You will not sell much snake oil here.
MR STEVENSON: Let me tell you, I would not expect to sell you the story, because I do not doubt - - -
Mr Berry: You will not sell me any snake oil; nor will you sell any to anybody else.
MR STEVENSON: You convince me by your actions that you do not believe it, and I have given you the reason why people do not believe that.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Stevenson, would you address your remarks through the Chair, please?
MR STEVENSON: I am sorry; were you talking to Mr Berry or me?
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: To you. Would you address your remarks through the Chair. If you are talking to Mr Berry, do it through the Chair.
MR STEVENSON: And if Mr Berry is talking to me?
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Through the Chair too, thank you. Carry on, Mr Stevenson.
MR STEVENSON: Mr Berry, if you are going to interject, interject through the Chair.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Just carry on, Mr Stevenson.
MR STEVENSON: So, it is an interesting situation. People come along and suggest that they will not talk to me. When they come along to me in those very rare times when we get together, it is because of a no-confidence motion - which is why I have said that there should be more of them. After all, I like to chat to people, like everybody does.
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