- It's the best defense I can use - completely logical and completely unexpected.
- And completely idiotic.

7 seconds sound clip from the Miracle on 34th Street (1947) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:11:01 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Oh, I didn't see this... Front page. Good, good.

- You're not serious about this.

- Of course I am.

- But you can't possibly prove that he's Santa Claus.

- Why not? You saw Macy and Gimbel shaking hands. That wasn't possible either, but it happened.

- Honestly, Fred...

- It's the best defense I can use - completely logical and completely unexpected.

- And completely idiotic.

- What about your bosses, Haislip and Mackenzie and the rest of them? What do they say?

- Hmm. That I am jeopardizing the prestige and dignity of an old, established law firm, and either I drop this impossible case immediately or they will drop me.

- See?

- I beat them to it. I quit.

- Fred, you didn't!

[...]

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