"I know very well that they have an agenda, Bruce. Everyone does. There is no one being on this planet or the next that doesn't have an ulterior motive. No one is pure, no one is perfect, and no one will ever be without suspicion.
"But sometimes, if you can get beyond that? You can start to realize that you'll have to pick a side no matter what. And honestly from my talk with Maria Hill? There's a lot to work with there. We have an idea right now, which is malleable, and will change.
"I work with people that I see potential in. You," pointing to him now, "for example. If I'd simply gone off my first impression of you, we'd never have become friends. Somehow, somehow, I got past the layers of dark and mysterious, stubborn and and pessimistic, angry and short tempered, and found something I saw potential in."
Clark crossed his arms over his chest, and waited.